The Future Plan and Effects of the Remote Monitoring System in PFPF

Ninagawa, Junichi; Takahashi, Saburo; Fujiwara, Shigeo ; Asano, Takashi 

JNC has developed a Remote Monitoring System (RMS) for unattended mode NDA in corporation with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under a JNC/DOE safeguards cooperation agreement. The purpose of this development is to improve the efficiency of safeguards activities for both the operator and the inspectors, and to improve transparency of nuclear material management. As a result of the field trials, technical problems of the RMS have been mostly resolved. Therefore, the JNC is evaluating how the RMS may contribute to the efficiency of safeguards activities by step-by-step implementation of RMS to PFPF in near future. Extending the RMS into not only storage areas, but also fuel fabrication process areas, has the possibility of reduction of actual visits to the facility. There is also the possibility of reduction of impact on facility operations. This paper describes the plans of JNC and LANL for applying RMS at PFPF.