NMMSS Orientation

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NMMSS Orientation

• Brian Horn
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Peter Dessaules
• Department of Energy

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NMMSS

• Nuclear
• Materials
• Management and
• Safeguards
• System

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NMMSS (continued)

• U.S. Governments database to track movements and
  inventories of nuclear materials
• Owned by Department of Energy
• Operated by Protection Services Inc. (PSI) in
  Germantown, Maryland
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission utilizes NMMSS
  through a contract with DOE
• Information submitted using joint forms
• (DOE/NRC Form 741, 742, 742c, 740m)

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NMMSS (continued)

• Used to satisfy
• Domestic needs of the Department of Energy
• Domestic needs of the Nuclear Regulatory
  Commission
• International needs U.S. Government

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How do facilities fit into NMMSS?

• Facility data is fed into NMMSS
• Facility data undergoes various NMMSS edit checks
  
• Once data is in NMMSS, it is a part of history
• NMMSS Reports are based on licensee information
  submitted to, and processed by, NMMSS

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What types of nuclear material activities do
facilities report to NMMSS?

• Imports and exports
• Domestic movements
• Inventory
• Inventory adjustments
• DOE-owned Ownership changes

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NMMSS History

• 1940s 50s data was hand written into ledgers
• 1960s Mainframe computer punch cards
• Early 1990s Personal Computer system, using DOS
  FoxPro
• 2009 PC Windows and SQL Server

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NMMSS abbreviations / terms

• RIS (Reporting Identification Symbol)
• D-2 (List of RIS codes for DOE sites)
• D-3 (List of RIS codes for licensee sites)
• D-15 (List of RIS codes for Foreign sites)

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NMMSS abbreviations / terms (continued)

• NMMSS generated guidance documents
• D-23 (Personal Computer Data Input for Department
  of Energy Contractors)
• D-24 (Personal Computer Data Input for Nuclear
  Regulatory Commission licensees)

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NMMSS abbreviations / terms (continued)

• Forms on which electronic submittals to NMMSS
  are based
• DOE/NRC Form-741 (Nuclear material Transaction
  Report)
• DOE/NRC Form-742 (Material Balance Report)
• DOE/NRC Form-742C (Physical Inventory Listing)
• DOE/NRC Form-740M (Concise Note)

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More Abbreviations / terms

• NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• Licensee (Company/individual who has received a
  license from NRC or State Government to possess
  and use nuclear material)
• Source material (natural uranium, depleted
  uranium, thorium)
• Special Nuclear Material (plutonium, U-233, or
  uranium enriched in U-233 or U-235)

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More abbreviations / terms (continued)

• DOE (Department of Energy)
• HSS-1.22 (Office of Information Management)
• NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration)
• RW (Office of Radioactive Waste)
• EM (Office of Environmental Management)
• LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• SRS (Savannah River National Laboratory)

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Data security

• NMMSS protects your data
• Physical gaps between NMMSS database and outside
  world
• Only the NMMSS operator can directly access data
  from NMMSS database
• We are very protective of your data submitted to
  NMMSS

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One system two sets of rules

• DOE and NRC have slightly different needs and
  requirements of NMMSS
• DOE
• NMMSS tracks 17 DOE-owned materials
• DOE requires each DOE sites to report inventories
  every Sept. 30th
• NRC
• NMMSS tracks 8 materials located at licensee
  sites
• NRC requires each licensee to report inventory at
  least once a year

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NRC inventory reporting requirements

• Category-1 fuel cycle sites
• March 31 and September 30
• Other Fuel cycle sites reactors
• Yearly inventory taking
• Licensees with less than 350 grams of fissile
  material
• Between January 1 and March 31

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NRC requires licensees to report eight
materials to NMMSS

• Depleted uranium - Natural uranium
• Thorium - U-233
• U-235 in enriched uranium - Uranium in cascade
• Plutonium - Pu-238

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DOE requires seventeen DOE-owned materials to be
report to NMMSS

• - Depleted uranium - Natural uranium
• Thorium - U-233
• U-235 in enriched uranium - Uranium in cascade
• Plutonium - Pu-238
• Pu-242 - Enriched Lithium
• Americium-241 - Americium-243
• Curium - Californium
• Neptunium-237 - Deuterium
• Tritium

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Reporting units to NMMSS

• Kilogram Gram Other units
• Depleted uranium U-233 Pu-238 (0.1 g)
• Natural uranium Uranium in cascade Tritium (0.01
  g)
• Thorium U-235 in enriched uranium Deuterium
  (0.1kg)
• Enriched Lithium Plutonium Cf (1 micro gram)
• Pu-242
• Americium-241 Americium-243
• Curium
• Neptunium-237

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Data flow into and out of NMMSS
Licensee Facility 1
License Facility
NMMSS Edit Data Checks
Entered Into
Database
Licensee Facility 2
DOE

• IAEA
• Congress
• Other
• Countries

DOE Site 1
NRC
DOE Site 2
DOE Sites
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NMMSS Reports for Treaties

• To the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Imports/exports of nuclear materials -monthly
• Imports/exports of uranium ore concentrates-monthl
  y
• Inventories, movements of nuclear materials for
  IAEA selected facilities-monthly
• Quantity of civilian plutonium-yearly

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NMMSS Reports for Treaties, cont.

• Agreements for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation
• imports, exports, production and inventories of
  nuclear materials (obligation codes)
• DOE/Minatome HEU Transparency Program
• Imports, exports and transfers of nuclear
  materials (WR obligation code)

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NMMSS Aids to Facilities Free!

• Safeguards Management Software (SAMS)
• NMMSS Reports (as requested)
• Telephone discussions with NMMSS staff
• NMMSS Users Annual Training Meeting
• NMMSS Newsletter
• NMMSS Training courses

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NMMSS Users and Training Meeting

• The meeting is for your benefit!
• Ask questions
• Share your knowledge and thoughts (both in the
  meeting and in the hallways)
• Respect the views of others
• If you hear something that sounds wrong, seek
  clarification.
• Changes occur because of discussions and
  suggestions made at these annual meetings.