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The Nuclear Company, which in April opened its primary engineering and construction office in Columbia, S.C., announced a partnership with the University of South Carolina’s Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing, whereby the company will invest up to $5 million in the college over five years. USC is to match the private investment with funds from federal grants, industry partners, and other donors.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 179 | Number 1 | July 2012 | Pages 45-51
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Safeguards / Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT179-45
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The proliferation resistance and physical protection evaluation methodology provides a structured approach to assess a nuclear energy system's capability to respond to security challenges. The methodology applies a threat/system response/outcome framework to identify and characterize potential system vulnerabilities, and to guide designers toward system designs that minimize or eliminate these vulnerabilities. Application of the methodology during conceptual design provides an opportunity to develop functional requirements and design bases that can be used subsequently in the detailed design to achieve high proliferation resistance and physical protection robustness. This paper reviews the major elements of the methodology, including insights from recent studies using the methodology.