What additional steps did the NRC take to ensure the security of nuclear power plants and fuel facilities?
The NRC has issued more than 60 Advisories to its licensees to describe changes in the threat environment and provide guidance on ways to enhance security. Also, NRC issued Orders requiring certain security enhancements, conducted a three-phase audit of the licensees’ security programs in the weeks following the terrorist attacks, improved the process for conducting background investigations of new employees at nuclear power plants, and initiated a number of studies related to the protection of nuclear material and facilities.The NRC initiated, and is continuing, a comprehensive reevaluation of the agency’s safeguards and security programs, including a review of the design basis threat, and consolidated the security and emergency response functions of the agency into a new Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response.
The NRC has issued more than 60 Advisories to its licensees to describe changes in the threat environment and provide guidance on ways to enhance security. Also, NRC issued Orders requiring certain security enhancements, conducted a three-phase audit of the licensees’ security programs in the weeks following the terrorist attacks, improved the process for conducting background investigations of new employees at nuclear power plants, and initiated a number of studies related to the protection of nuclear material and facilities. The NRC initiated, and is continuing, a comprehensive reevaluation of the agency’s safeguards and security programs, including a review of the design basis threat, and consolidated the security and emergency response functions of the agency into a new Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. The agency has enhanced the security of its own buildings to protect the employees and vital functions and installed secure communications equipment at significant l
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