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COURSES 2012 NEW
LIST OF COURSES

 PHYSICAL PROTECTION  NUCLEAR MATERIAL CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING  NUCLEAR SECURITY CULTURE

PHYSICAL PROTECTION

    1.1 Basic Training Course on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities.

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students basic knowledge regarding the need, organisation and implementation of physical protection of nuclear facilities and nuclear material.
  • Subjects Discussed :nuclear material, nuclear weapons and nuclear facilities. Special nuclear material (SNM): enriched Uranium production; Plutonium production; criticality; nuclear materials classification. Atomic bomb. Nuclear reactor. Nuclear fuel cycle. Ionising radiation sources. Radiological dispersal devices (RDDs). Radiation safety: radiation protection; ways of ionising radiation effect on human body. Physical protection and principles of its assurance; threats. Physical Protection System definition: licensee efforts in identification, establishment and assurance of uninterrupted operation of physical protection systems at nuclear facilities and nuclear waste handling sites; role of physical protection system components; facility level response plan; sector level control, government supervision and government verification.
  • Potential Audience: beginners with higher or secondary learning degrees in technical disciplines, enlisted in physical protection forces.
  • Enrolment Conditions: learning degree verification.

    1.2 Introduction to Design of Physical Protection Systems of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to build students’ knowledge and practical skills to a degree enabling them to participate in identification of physical protection system and development of its terms of reference (TOR).
  • Subjects Discussed : approaches to physical protection system design; physical protection system specification; PPS engineering equipment specification; physical protection system design process; physical protection system design assessment.
  • Potential Audience: members of physical protection system identification work groups; developers of terms of reference for PPS engineering and technical means re-equipment or modernization.
  • Enrolment Conditions: knowledge of material of the above Course 1.1.

    1.3 Analysis and Modeling of Physical Protection Systems

  • Course duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to build students’ knowledge and practical skills to a degree enabling them to involve in physical protection systems design and condition evaluation and, subject to additional training, in PPS vulnerability assessment.
  • Subjects Discussed: systematic process of physical protection system design; design reliability assurance; design and evaluation principles; facility characterisation; threat definition; adversary targets; physical protection system performance requirements; identification of physical protection system configuration; physical protection system design review: intrusion detection, alarm communication and display, alarm assessment, alarm notification, access control, delay, and response subsystems; physical protection system design evaluation, modelling tools (EASI, SAVI).
  • Potential Audience: physical protection personnel responsible for physical protection systems design evaluation and nuclear facility vulnerability assessment.
  • Enrolment Conditions: knowledge of material of the Courses 1.1 and 1.2 above.

    1.4 Vital Area Identification

  • Course Duration: 80 hours.
  • Goal: to build students’ knowledge and practical skills to a degree enabling them to involve in identification of nuclear facility vital areas.
  • Subjects Discussed : identification of nuclear material balance areas or areas containing minimum sets of devices, instruments, equipment or technical systems critical for security whose failure may cause unaccepted radiological consequences.hysical protection system development essentials; defence-in-depth principle in NPP security; security systems development essentials; NPP deterministic safety analysis; NPP probabilistic safety analysis; introduction into Boolean algebra; event tree and fault tree development; hypothetical nuclear facility; administrative and institutional aspects of vital area (VA) identification; identification of potential sources of radiological release; sabotage fault tree development; location data collection and processing; identification of potential VA sets and identification of vital areas; documentation of results; VVER-1000 reactor; emergency initiating event – external and internal extreme impacts; personnel trustworthiness analysis; VVER equipment layout and potential VA sets; solution of sabotage protection trees; vital area identification process.
  • Potential Audience: nuclear facility personnel participating in vital area identification teams.
  • Enrolment Conditions: knowledge of material of the Courses 1.1 and 1.3 above.


    1.5 Physical Protection Systems Performance Testing

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to build students’ knowledge and practical skills to a degree enabling them to secure operability of physical protection systems and to complete system operability verifications.
  • Subjects Discussed: regulatory requirements as to condition of physical protection systems and their components; physical protection system operability verification as an element of operator’s activity in securing and maintaining appropriate condition of PPS and as part of government activity in PPS condition control; targets and objectives of operability verification, types of functional checks; operability verification methods and frequency; requirements to physical protection system operability verification documentation; operability verification logistics, preparation and performance, operability verification reports and remedial actions by nuclear facility administrations to cure defects identified in the course of operability verification.
  • Potential Audience: members of working commission on verification of physical protection system equipment operational readiness, physical protection force personnel responsible for secure operation of physical protection system equipment.
  • Enrolment Conditions: knowledge of material of the above Course 1.1.


    1.6 Vulnerability Assessment Methodology

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to build students’ knowledge and practical skills to a degree enabling them to assess vulnerability of a nuclear facility.
  • Subjects Discussed: Regulatory requirements regarding vulnerability assessment; nuclear facility vulnerability assessment team: tasks and activity arrangement; vulnerability assessment methods; vulnerability assessment stages; actions by nuclear installation administrations upon vulnerability assessment completion.
  • Potential Audience: members of nuclear facility vulnerability assessment team.
  • Enrolment Conditions: for team members representing physical protection forces – knowledge of material of the Courses 1.3 and 1.4 above.

    1.7 Inroduction to Physical Protection of Nuclear Facilities, Nuclear Material, Nuclear Wastes, and Other Ionising Radiation Sources

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students (other than nuclear facility physical protection personnel) basic knowledge of physical protection activity.
  • Subjects Discussed: Regulatory requirements to physical protection assurance for nuclear facilities, nuclear material, nuclear wastes, and other ionising radiation sources; ways to implement these requirements; definition of Design Basis Threat; definition of a Physical Protection System; general description of physical protection system components.
  • Potential Audience: personnel of companies seeking a Ukrainian State Nuclear Regulatory Committee’s physical protection license.
  • Enrolment Conditions: course is delivered by assignment of the Ukrainian State Nuclear Regulatory Committee.

    1.8 Inroduction to Physical Protection for Inner Troops of Ministry of Interior

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide guard force personnel knowledge in physical protection of nuclear facilities, nuclear material, radioactive wastes and other ionising radiation sources required to exercise their protection function.
  • Subjects Discussed: Nuclear facilities and nuclear material; radiation and its impact on people and environment; physical protection; Design Basis Threat; physical protection system design principles; physical protection system equipment; armed guards as part of a physical protection system; protection of nuclear facilities; nuclear facility protection and defence plan; facility level response plan.
  • Potential Audience: guard force command and engineering personnel.
  • Enrolment Conditions: learning degree verification.

    1.9 Physical Protection System Guard Unit Functions

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students knowledge in functions of guard force as part of a physical protection system and in organisation of guard force operations towards assurance of nuclear facility’s normal functioning in emergency or crisis.
  • Subjects Discussed :guard force tasks and role within a physical protection system; guard force functions in performing its tasks; guard force protective functions and guards’ responsibilities; guard force personnel responsibilities in performing protection functions in emergency; guard force actions in the event of sabotage or crisis; taking nuclear facility under protection; guard force weapons and equipment; guard force training; requirements to guard force personnel; guard force personnel rights and responsibilities.
  • Potential Audience: guard force command and engineering personnel.
  • Enrolment Conditions: knowledge of material of Course 1.8.

    1.10 Legal and Regulatory Basis for Physical Protection

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students basic knowledge of applicable law governing physical protection of nuclear facilities, nuclear material, radioactive wastes and other ionising radiation sources. Students should be able to use the acquired knowledge in their day-to-day activity and realise their role in securing compliance with legal requirements, responsibility for such compliance and consequences of non-compliance.
  • Subjects Discussed : Ukraine’s international obligations with respect to physical protection of nuclear facilities, nuclear material, radioactive wastes and other sources of ionising radiation; physical protection requirements of the Ukrainian law; Ukrainian Cabinet regulations regarding compliance with Ukrainian laws on physical protection; physical protection rules and standards set by the Ukrainian State Nuclear Regulatory Committee; interdepartmental regulations on physical protection; investigative activity, protection and liability for non-compliance with Ukrainian physical protection laws and regulations; analysis, problem issues.
  • Potential Audience: deputy CEOs for physical protection, heads of physical protection; commanders of guard forces, public officers in charge of physical protection implementation, other physical protection personnel.

    GKTC develops training materials and plans to arrange several training courses after Training Site commissioning:

  • Vulnerability Assessment Methodology, 2-nd part
  • PP Systems Performance testing, 2-nd part.
  • Control over ETM of PP System during normal operation, in case of emergency and crisis situation.
  • Inspections of PP Systems (for the state inspectors of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspection of Ukraine).

NUCLEAR MATERIAL CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING

    2.1 Basic Course in Nuclear Material Control and accounting

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students basic knowledge of regulatory requirements regarding nuclear material control and accounting and ways to implement these requirements at the national, departmental, licensee, operator and facility level.
  • Subjects Discussed : Nuclear material: types, categories, and forms; IAEA role and tasks in securing nuclear non-proliferation; Safeguards Agreement between Ukraine and IAEA with respect to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; legal regulation of nuclear material control and accounting activity; definition of tasks and functions of a state system for control and accounting of nuclear material (SSAC); SSAC requirements to nuclear material control and accounting within facilities and at locations outside them; organisational unit responsible for control and accounting; individual responsible for keeping nuclear material accounts; system for control and accounting of nuclear material at licensee level (SAC); documentary accounts and reports in nuclear material control and accounting.
  • Potential Audience: beginners with relevant higher or secondary learning degrees employed with units responsible for nuclear material accounting and control.
  • Enrolment Conditions: learning degree verification.

    2.2 State System for Control and Accounting of Nuclear Material (SSAC). System for Nuclear Material Accounting and Control Within and Outside Nuclear Facilities

  • Course duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students knowledge of principles and tasks of a state system for control and accounting of nuclear material (SSAC) and principles and operation assurance of SSAC application at a nuclear installation or any other facility (a location outside nuclear facility).
  • Content: The course is divided into two major parts:
  • A.   State system for control and accounting of nuclear material (SSAC): IAEA requirements to SSAC, laws, rules and regulations pertaining to SSAC creation and operation, SSAC logistic elements, SSAC requirements compliance inspection, national NM accounting and control information system, SSAC role in securing compliance with Safeguards Agreement between Ukraine and IAEA.
  • B.   System for control and accounting of nuclear material (SAC) within or outside a nuclear facility: SAC creation, SAC implementation logistics, NM control and accounting provision plan, facility administration licensee and SAC personnel responsibility and authority regarding SSAC compliance, SAC accounting and reports, SAC equipment base, SAC procedures pertaining to NM security/surveillance/measurement, NM control and accounting of nuclear material data system maintenance, SAC and IAEA inspections.
  • Potential Audience: individuals in charge of nuclear material accounting and control.
  • Enrolment conditions: learning degree verification, knowledge of material of Course 2.1. above.

    2.3 Nuclear Material Accounting and Control Computer Aided Systems

  • Course duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to build theoretical knowledge and practical skills in handling computer aided nuclear material accounting and control system software to address tasks related to nuclear material accounting, reporting, and control.
  • Subjects Discussed : SSAC and SAC accounts and reports; state-of-the-art computer aided systems for nuclear material accounting and control; requirements to computer aided systems; modern system capabilities; particular requirements to a computer aided system operated at a facility with a power/research reactor or a facility handling bulk material; computer aided system software upgrade, information protection, computer aided nuclear material accounting and control procedures, role of human factor in automation of the nuclear material accounting and control process.
  • Potential audience: individuals in charge of collection of and processing information on nuclear material accounting and control, as well as of relevant reporting.
  • Enrolment conditions: learning degree verification, knowledge of material of Courses 2.1. and 2.2 above.

    2.4 Methods for Nuclear and Radioactive Material Safe Handling, Detection, and Measurement

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students basic knowledge on modern methods of nuclear and radioactive materials detection.
  • Subjects Discussed: nuclear materials (NMs); special nuclear materials (SNMs); biological effect of radiation; ionising radiation characterisation methods; modern radiation control equipment; gamma-spectrometry devices and hardware for radioactive material characterisation; introduction to gamma-spectrometry techniques using NaI and HPGe detectors; measurement of U-235 enrichment using NaI and HPGe detectors and certified standard samples; nuclear material identification and characterisation by neutron analysis.
  • Potential audience: public officers (State Nuclear Regulatory Committee inspectors); beginners with relevant higher learning degrees, officials in charge of nuclear materials measurement.
  • Enrolment conditions: learning degree verification.

    2.5 Nuclear Material Non-Destructive Analysis: Gamma-Spectrometric and Neutron Methods

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: o advance students theoretical knowledge of nuclear material non-destructive analysis and build practical skills on non-destructive analysis hardware, measurements, and results processing techniques.
  • Subjects Discussed: modern methods of nuclear material analysis; the use of modern non-destructive analysis methods in nuclear material control and accounting: gamma-ray measurement or neutron detection methods; non-destructive analysis hardware; requirements to non-destructive analysis detectors and measurement systems; measurement methods for uranium enrichment rate; passive and active methods for large nuclear material samples analysis with neutron detection technique; quality assurance of measurement and results processing; software and statistical processing techniques.
  • Potential audience: specialists in nuclear material non-destructive analysis.
  • Enrolment conditions: knowledge of material of the Courses 2.1. and 2.4.

    2.6 Devices for Nuclear Material Access Control and Intrusion Detection Equipment

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to familiarize students with nuclear material access control systems and train them in intrusion detection devices operation.
  • Subjects Discussed: state system of accounting for and control of nuclear material (SSAC); system of nuclear facility and nuclear material physical protection; role of A&C and NM physical protection in nuclear non-proliferation; national laws and regulations on MPC&A; the IAEA and State Nuclear Regulatory Inspection activity; intrusion detection equipment: types, functional principles, specifications, strengths and weaknesses; intrusion detection system functions in NM physical protection; intrusion detection system functions in physical inventory optimization; surveillance and security equipment used by the IAEA and Euroatom; selection of intrusion detection system type; personnel: responsibilities, trustworthiness, capacity building; intrusion detection system installation, removal, control and disposal procedures; documentation; indications of intrusion.
  • Potential audience: beginners with relevant higher learning degrees, officials in charge of nuclear materials control and accounting.
  • Enrolment conditions: Confirmed education degree.

    2.7 Nuclear Material Physical Inventory

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students with basic knowledge on goals, tasks and procedures of Physical Inventory of Nuclear Materials.
  • Subjects Discussed: requirements of legal and regulatory documents to physical inventory, tasks, planning and organization of physical inventory, personnel , responsibility assignment, methods of physical inventory, special features of physical inventory for facilities with bulk form material, measurements during physical inventory, statistic calculation of sampling, bar-codes use, intrusion detection devices and optimisation of physical inventory, NM balance assessment , reporting on NM balance, actions in case of anomalies.
  • Potential audience: persons included to the Commission on Physical Inventory of NM.
  • Enrolment conditions: Confirmed education degree, knowledge of material of the Courses 2.1. 2.3 and 2.6.

    2.8 Nuclear Material Acconting and Control Culture

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students with understanding on the necessity to support of the high level of culture in the Offices on Nuclear Material Accounting and Control.
  • Subjects Discussed: MC&A system as a part of the State Safeguards and non-proliferation of nuclear weapon, functions and responsibility of MC&A Office personnel, culture and MC&A culture components, human factor impact, MC&A culture as a part of nuclear security culture, ways of MC&A culture improvement.
  • Potential audience: personnel of MC&A Offices.
  • Enrolment conditions: Confirmed education degree.

    2.9 Performance Testing of MC&A Systems

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students with knowledge on goals and methodology of MC&A performance testing, as well as the use of corrective measures after the results of Performance Testing of MC&A Systems.
  • Subjects Discussed: legal and regulatory requirements to MC&A System and its components, tasks, implementation, procedures, assessment criteria of performance testing of MC&A systems, testing of specific elements of MC&A system, definition on compliance of MC&A system with legal requirements, documenting of results, reporting, licensee measures based on the results of performance testing of MC&A systems, responsibility for performance testing of MC&A systems.
  • Potential audience: officials included to Commission on Performance Testing of MC&A Systems.
  • Enrolment conditions: Confirmed education degree, knowledge of the Courses 2.1 – 2.7.

    2.10 State Inspections of MC&A Systems.

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students with knowledge on goals and methodic of the state inspections of MC&A Systems.
  • Subjects Discussed: requirements of the Ukrainian regulatory documents to SSAC and MC&A Systems of licensee. Safeguards Agreement between Ukraine and the IAEA, the IAEA inspections in Ukraine: types of inspections, basis of inspection activity, technical goals of Safeguards and integrated safeguards, rights and liabilities of the state control agencies that govern licensees. Inspections of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspection of Ukraine – planning, goals and tasks, working procedures, analysis of inspections results, rights and liabilities of the state inspectors and licensees during inspections, corrective measures and sanctions taken on the results of inspections.
  • Potential audience: state official workers- state inspectors of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspection, heads of MC&A divisions of the licensees.
  • Enrolment conditions: Confirmed education degree.

NUCLEAR SECURITY CULTURE

    3.1 Nuclear Security Culture (for middle-level managers).

  • Course Duration: 40 hours.
  • Goal: to provide students with knowledge that could assist in implementation and support of Nuclear Security Culture in their divisions.
  • Subjects Discussed : nuclear security culture issues in the international and Ukrainian legislation, association points and differences of nuclear security culture and safety culture, actuality of threats to radioactive materials and connected facilities in Ukraine and other countries, categories of threats and committers, human factor impact, the IAEA model of nuclear security culture, feed-back from the programs on nuclear security culture developed and implemented in the USA, Russian Federation, the necessity to fulfill self assessment of nuclear security culture and criteria, the role of middle level manager in the improvement of nuclear security culture in his division, the importance of personnel motivation.
  • Potential Audience: deputy heads of nuclear facilities on physical protection, heads of physical protection offices, heads of MC&A Offices, state workers of the Ministries and Departments who are responsible for physical protection measures, other specialists on physical protection.
  • Enrolment Conditions: Confirmed education degree.

    3.2 Nuclear Security Culture (for top level managers)

  • Course duration: 16 hours.
  • Goal: to provide listeners with knowledge that could assist in implementation and support of Nuclear Security Culture in their enterprises and departments.
  • Subjects Discussed : reality of threats to radioactive materials and related facilities in Ukraine, human factor role and measures aimed to prevent personnel errors, history of nuclear security culture as a term, connection with nuclear safety, the IAEA model of nuclear security culture, familiarization with the experience of Russian Federation on development and implementation of nuclear security culture, features of positive top level manager from the point of nuclear security culture, self assessment of the level of nuclear security culture.
  • Potential Audience: managers of nuclear facilities, managers of departments in the Ministries involved to the activity on the field of physical protection.
  • Enrolment conditions: Confirmed education degree.

    3.3 Nuclear Security Culture (for officers of guard units)

  • Course duration: 24 hours.
  • Goal: to assist listeners to understand what is nuclear security culture and to give knowledge on the methods of establishing and developing of nuclear security culture in their units.
  • Subjects Discussed : security culture issues in Ukrainian and international legislation, actuality of threats to radioactive materials and connected facilities in Ukraine and other countries, categories of threats and committers, human factor impact, history of nuclear security culture as a term, its connection with nuclear safety, the IAEA model of nuclear security culture, the best practice of management and control, procedure for self assessment of the level of nuclear security culture, methods and criteria of self assessment, the role of manager in the improvement of nuclear security culture at the guard unit.
  • Potential audience: heads of units and structural subunits of guard forces at nuclear facilities.
  • Enrolment conditions: Confirmed education degree
COURSE CATALOGUE 2012 (ZIP) NEW
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