Comprehensive Safety Analysis activities provided by SARACon include the following:

• Conventional Risk Assessment - Complete Range of Hazards Analysis and Risk Assessment Capabilities including FMEA, HAZOP, Fault Tree, Event Tree Analysis and a comprehensive analytical safety analysis package which includes the following skills but not limited to:
  • Blackout Analysis
  • Design Basis Event Development
  • External Event Analysis (e.g. Flood, Wind, etc.)
  • Fire Analysis
  • Loss of Power Analysis
• Regulatory Support - SARACon offers Licensing and Authorization Basis support in the following areas:
  • Authorization Basis Reconstitution
  • Limiting Condition of Operation (LCO) development and relaxation
  • Probabilistic Authorization Basis Analysis
  • PSAR/FSAR development
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Analytical Support
  • Regulatory Interface including comment response and risk-based position defense/justification.
  • Review of the Safety Analysis Reports
  • Risk-based siting investigation for hazardous facilities
  • Safety Screenings/50.59 Reviews /Unreviewed Safety Questions
  • Technical Specifications development and relaxation

This set of activities is intended to provide ways in which risk or threat analysis modeling techniques can be used to identify vulnerabilities in the security envelop or evaluate the effectiveness of proposed countermeasures.

• Threat Analysis - Identification of threats and development of potential scenarios so that a commensurate security envelope may be established.
• Barrier Analysis - Identification and reliability assessment for barriers associated with critical equipment. Results are incorporated into the threat scenarios.
• Security Risk Analysis - Prioritization of threats and barriers, identification of pinch-points and vulnerabilities.
• Economic Optimization - Prioritization of expenditures for security and loss control.
• Vector Response Tree (VRT) - A diagramed set of instructions used for determination of response, level of isolation and notification requirements. The VRT is developed from the threat and barrier analyses and lends to quick, accurate, and reproducible responses.
• Development of scenarios - Scenarios from the threat and barrier analyses are developed for plant specific training in all of the areas described above.
• Loss of Power Vulnerabilities - Vulnerabilities due to loss of power events are identified including loss of support services. This analysis incorporates all of the findings from the above analyses.

• Development, implementation, and management of a variety of emergency preparedness programs within the DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission programs
• Extensive knowledge of DOE, EPA, and OSHA Orders/Guidance Documents related to emergency management/preparedness, conduct of operations, the Integrated Safety Management Systems activities
• Maintenance of emergency fire, medical, rescue (surface and underground) and HAZMAT capabilities