Speaker: Richard E. Glass, Y-12 national Security Complex.
Mr Glass will be speaking on Domestic Physical Protection for High Consequence Assets. A description of the talk and a Bio. of Mr. Glass is given below: For most engineering applications involving nuclear materials, primary design objectives include eliminating the possibility of nuclear yield and reducing the potential consequences of attempts to disperse nuclear material. For a few applications, these high consequence outcomes cannot be eliminated by design. These situations greatly increase the effect of adversary malice on the processes used to determine the adequacy of physical security features. This lecture identifies the basic concepts of security system design for high consequence assets, and describes the analysis tools needed to merge engineering methods with expert judgment in a way that accounts for adversary malice.
Rick Glass is the Manager for the Security Risk Management Department, Safeguards, Security & Emergency Services Division, at the Y-12 National Security Complex. His group uses experienced vulnerability analysts and a variety of tools to model potential adversary paths, evaluate explosive blast implications, conduct combat simulations, and design field performance tests to validate security system effectiveness.
Before Y-12 and his time as manager of the DOE/NNSA’s Albuquerque Operations Office where Mr. Glass was the Contracting Officer for Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories, the Pantex Plant, Kansas City Plant, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Mr. Glass worked for the Naval Reactors Division in the US Navy. During his time in the US Navy, he served as lead engineer for control rod drive mechanisms and reactor primary equipment. Mr. Glass is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Master’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering, a graduate of the Bettis Reactor Engineering School, and a qualified Engineering Duty Officer in the Navy.
