A Passive Tamper Indicating Enclosure For Use Within A Nuclear Weapons Monitoring Regime

摘要

AWE and PNNL are engaged in a technical collaboration investigating techniques to enhancecontinuity of knowledge over Treaty Accountable Items, with emphasis on a verified nuclearweapons dismantlement process. Tamper Indicating Enclosures (TIE) will likely be deployed aspart of a chain of custody regime to indicate an unauthorised attempt to access a TreatyAccountable Item, or secure authenticated monitoring equipment. In 2011, the collaborationpresented a paper at the INMM annual conference held in Palm Desert, CA titled “Passive TamperIndicating Enclosures Incorporating Embedded Optical Fibre”, which discussed the concept ofintegrating optical fibres into TIEs for use as a passive tamper indicating mechanism. This paperprovides an update on the Fibre Optic based TIE and introduces a second passive TIE conceptbased on the use of Poly(Methyl MethAcrylate) (PMMA). Concepts relating to deployment, tamperindication, and unique identification will be discussed