INDEX
DEFINITIONS
1. ACCESS PERMIT. An authorization, issued by DOE, affording access by a
specifically named person or organization (permittee) to Restricted
Data applicable to the civilian uses of atomic energy in accordance
with specific terms and conditions.
2. ACCOUNTABILITY.
a. The property which enables activities on an automated data
processing (ADP) system to be traced to individuals who can then
be held responsible for their activities.
b. That part of the safeguards and security program which encompasses
the measurement and inventory verification systems and records and
reports to account for nuclear materials.
c. A system which audits the control measures provided classified
material through the use of verifiable inventory and the
establishment of a custodial chain.
3. CLASSIFIED INTEREST. Classified information or material possessed by
DOE, a DOE contractor, or any other facility under DOE jurisdiction.
This may include SNM owned by DOE.
4. FACILITY. An educational institution, manufacturing plant, laboratory,
office building, or complex of buildings located on the same site that
is operated and protected as one unit by the Department or its
contractor(s).
5. FACILITY APPROVAL. A determination that a facility (and/or activities
conducted within a facility) is eligible to receive, produce, use, or
store classified matter, nuclear materials, or other DOE property of
significant monetary value.
6. FACILITY DATA AND APPROVAL RECORD. A standard DOE form (DOE F 5600.2)
which is used to record approvals, changes, and deletions of security
facilities.
7. FACILITY REGISTER. An index of security facilities under the
administrative or survey responsibility of a DOE Field Office.
8. FINDING. A separate, distinct situation in a surveyed organization
that is not in compliance with directives or requirements, a deficiency
in the performance of a safety records and security system, or a
concern regarding the adequacy of a practice.
9. FOREIGN OWNERSHIP, CONTROL, OR INFLUENCE. Foreign ownership, control,
or influence exists when a DOE contractor performing classified work,
or having access to significant quantities of special nuclear material,
has an institutional or personal relationship with foreign interests.
A contractor is considered to be under foreign ownership, control, or
influence when the degree of interest, as defined above, is such that a
reasonable basis exists for concluding that compromise of classified
information or significant quantity of special nuclear material, as
defined in 10 CFR 710, may result.
10. GRADED SAFEGUARDS. A system designed to provide varying degrees of
physical protection, accountability, and material control to different
types, quantities, physical forms, and chemical or isotopic
compositions of nuclear materials consistent with the risks and
consequences associated with threat scenarios.
11. MALEVOLENT ACT. An illegal action or an action that is committed with
the intent of causing wrongful harm.
12. MASTER FACILITY REGISTER. A central record index which is maintained
by the Office of Safeguards and Security (SA-10) of all safeguards and
security facilities and activities under the administrative
jurisdiction of DOE Elements.
13. NUCLEAR MATERIALS.
a. All materials so designated by the Secretary of Energy, at
present: depleted uranium, enriched uranium, plutonium-242,
americium-241, americium-243, curium, berkelium, californium,
plutonium 238-242, lithium-6, uranium-233, normal uranium,
neptunium-237, deuterium, tritium, and thorium.
b. Special nuclear material, byproduct material, or source material
as defined by Sections 11aa., 11e., and 11z., respectively, of the
Atomic Energy Act, or any other material used in the production,
testing, utilization, or assembly of nuclear weapons or components
of nuclear weapons that the Secretary determines to be nuclear
material under 10 CFR 1017.10(a).
14. NUCLEAR MATERIALS ACCOUNTING. The principles and/or practices of
systematically recording, reporting, and interpreting nuclear material
transaction and physical inventory data.
15. NUCLEAR MATERIALS CONTROL. The part of the safeguards program to:
assign and exercise responsibility for nuclear material; maintain
vigilance over the material; govern its movement, location, and use;
monitor the inventory and process status; detect unauthorized
activities for all nuclear material; and help investigate and resolve
apparent losses of nuclear material.
16. NUCLEAR MATERIALS SURVEY. A comprehensive examination and evaluation
of the effectiveness of the control and accountability systems for
nuclear materials at DOE facilities.
17. PHYSICAL PROTECTION (PHYSICAL SECURITY). The application of methods
for preventing malevolent acts against DOE safeguards and security
interests, detecting such acts as they occur, and responding to such
acts.
18. PROPERTY PROTECTION FACILITY. A facility where a special standard of
protection must be applied. Such a facility may have: property of
significant monetary value (>$5,000,000); nuclear materials requiring
safeguards controls or special accounting procedures other than those
required by A, B or C facilities; significance to DOE program
continuity; national security consideration; or potential adverse
impact upon the public health and safety.
19. RESPONSIBLE ORGANIZATION. The DOE organization responsible for
implementation and oversight of safeguards and security requirements at
a DOE facility, including approval of safeguards and security plans and
resolution of deficiencies other than those which are specific to
another DOE organization's security interests.
NOTE: If there is more than one DOE organization with security
interests at a facility, the organization which is responsible for the
programs involving the highest level of security interest is normally
the responsible office. However, this responsibility may, by mutual
agreement of the offices involved, be accepted by an office which does
not have the highest level of security interest but a greater scope
interest, as with a long term or traditional interest.
20. SAFEGUARDS. An integrated system of physical protection, material
accounting, and material control measures designed to deter, prevent,
detect, and respond to unauthorized possession, use, or sabotage of
nuclear materials.
21. SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY ACTIVITY. Any work performed under contract,
subcontract, or other agreement which involves access to classified
information, nuclear material, or DOE property of significant monetary
value by DOE, a DOE contractor, or any other activity under DOE
jurisdiction. Also included is the verification of the capabilities of
approved Federal locations.
22. SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY SURVEY. The security survey and/or nuclear
materials survey, as appropriate. The security survey and nuclear
materials survey may be performed independently or as one integrated
survey. Integrated safeguards and security survey refers to the
combined security and nuclear material survey.
23. SECURITY. An integrated system of activities, systems, programs,
facilities; and policies for the protection of Restricted Data and
other classified information or matter, nuclear materials, nuclear
weapons and nuclear weapon components, and/or Departmental and
Departmental contractor facilities, property, and equipment.
24. SECURITY, PHYSICAL. See Physical Protection.
25. SECURITY FACILITY. Any facility which has been approved by DOE for
generating, receiving, using, processing, storing, reproducing,
transmitting, destroying, or handling classified matter and/or handling
nuclear materials.
26. SECURITY INTEREST. A general term which includes any of the following
which require special protection: classified information, classified
matter, special nuclear material and other nuclear materials, secure
communications centers, sensitive compartmented information facilities,
automatic data processing centers, systems processing, storing, and
transmitting classified information, and/or Departmental property.
27. SECURITY SURVEY. Onsite examination of the devices, equipment,
personnel, and procedures employed at a facility to safeguard SNM,
classified matter, and/or DOE property.
28. SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI). Classified information
concerning or derived from intelligence sources, methods, or analytical
processes, which is required to be handled within formal access control
systems established by the Director of Central Intelligence.
29. SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION FACILITY (SCIF). An accredited
area, room, group of rooms, or installation where sensitive
compartmented information may be stored, used, and/or electronically
processed.
30. SIGNIFICANT SYSTEM ALARM. Any facility safeguards and security
capability that identifies and communicates an indication of a
malevolent act involving radiological or industrial sabotage,
espionage, or the theft or diversion of classified matter or nuclear
materials which could be used to construct an improvised nuclear
device, a nuclear device, or unauthorized detonation of a weapon or
test device.
31. SIGNIFICANT VULNERABILITY. The loss of, or discovered way to bypass,
an essential safeguards and security system component or set of
components for which there is no effective backup.
32. SOURCE MATERIAL. Depleted uranium, normal uranium, thorium, or any
other material determined, pursuant to the provisions of Section 61 of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to be source material; or
ores containing one or more of the foregoing materials in such
concentration as may be determined by regulation.
33. SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL (SNM). Plutonium, uranium-233, or uranium
enriched in the isotope 235, and any other material which, pursuant to
the provisions of Section 51 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, has been determined to be special nuclear material, but which
does not include source material; or it also includes any material
artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, not including source
material.
34. SUGGESTION. Information a field element provides to identify potential
program enhancements.
35. SURVEYING ORGANIZATION. The DOE safeguards and security organization
which has responsibility for conducting a security and/or nuclear
materials survey of a DOE facility.