Efficiency Bulletins

EB 16-06: Implementing a Standardized Search and Seal Process

This bulletin will result in greater efficiency by standardizing the search and seal process used to ship bulk equipment or tools between nuclear power plant sites.

When bulk equipment or tools are removed from a nuclear power plant’s protected area to be shipped to another nuclear plant, the containers may be sealed with a tamper indicating device to provide assurance that the item is not opened prior to entering the other site’s protected area. Containers to ship this equipment are designed to be impervious to tampering. Nonetheless, if a sealed container is suspected of having been tampered with, the container cannot be exempted from being searched.

Target implementation date: June 2016.