Appendix G to Part 73 - Reportable Safeguards Events
10:2.0.1.1.13.2.127.1.19 : Appendix G
Appendix G to Part 73 - Reportable Safeguards Events
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 73.71 (b) and (c),
licensees subject to the provisions of 10 CFR 73.20, 73.37, 73.50,
73.55, 73.60, and 73.67 shall report or record, as appropriate, the
following safeguards events.
I. Events to be reported within one hour of discovery,
followed by a written report within 60 days.
(a) Any event in which there is reason to believe that a person
has commited or caused, or attempted to commit or cause, or has
made a credible threat to commit or cause:
(1) A theft or unlawful diversion of special nuclear material;
or
(2) Significant physical damage to a power reactor or any
facility possessing SSNM or its equipment or carrier equipment
transporting nuclear fuel or spent nuclear fuel, or to the nuclear
fuel or spent nuclear fuel a facility or carrier possesses; or
(3) Interruption of normal operation of a licensed nuclear power
reactor through the unauthorized use of or tampering with its
machinery, components, or controls including the security
system.
(b) An actual entry of an unauthorized person into a protected
area, material access area, controlled access area, vital area, or
transport.
(c) Any failure, degradation, or the discovered vulnerability in
a safeguard system that could allow unauthorized or undetected
access to a protected area, material access area, controlled access
area, vital area, or transport for which compensatory measures have
not been employed.
(d) The actual or attempted introduction of contraband into a
protected area, material access area, vital area, or transport.
II. Events to be recorded within 24 hours of discovery in the
safeguards event log.
(a) Any failure, degradation, or discovered vulnerability in a
safeguards system that could have allowed unauthorized or
undetected access to a protected area, material access area,
controlled access area, vital area, or transport had compensatory
measures not been established.
(b) Any other threatened, attempted, or committed act not
previously defined in appendix G with the potential for reducing
the effectiveness of the safeguards system below that committed to
in a licensed physical security or contingency plan or the actual
condition of such reduction in effectiveness.
[52 FR 21658, June 9, 1987, as amended at 60 FR 13618, Mar. 14,
1995; 68 FR 33617, June 5, 2003]