The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration will host a three-day Safeguards and Security by Design (SSeBD) workshop for U.S. advanced and small modular reactor vendors that seek to deploy their technologies in the U.S. and abroad.

The workshop will take place September 10 – 12, 2024 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN and will provide insights on technical measures that can be integrated and applied to advanced and small modular reactors in the planning and design stages to meet legal requirements of future customers and avoid potentially costly retrofits.

During this workshop, participants will learn and engage with Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and laboratory subject matter experts on techniques and methods to:

• Accommodate international safeguards obligations to make exports more attractive to customers in non-nuclear weapons states (NNWS)
• Prepare vendors for international regulatory engagements and discussions with regulators on nuclear security and safeguards and how your designs can meet their requirements
• Reduce security risks by increasing the efficacy of physical protection systems, accounting for unique cybersecurity risks posed by new deployment models, etc.
• Reduce the need to make costly security and safeguard retrofits after the design is locked in
• Understand the interfaces between safety, security, and safeguards approaches and how they impact one another in the design of a reactor
• Reduce the reliance on engineered and capital-intensive approaches in favor of those that rely on intrinsic or inherent processes and safety features

*Participants are responsible for travel and lodging; Course fees and lunches will be provided by NNSA Sponsors.

Hosted by the US Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of International Nuclear Security and the Office of International Nuclear Safeguards.