- Overview
- What we do for nuclear safety
- Licensing of facilities
- Personnel licenses
- Supervision and control. Inspections
- Nuclear power plants in Spain
- Operating states
- S I S C
- Plants in the decommissioning stage
- Juzbado fuel assembly manufacturing facility
- El Cabril radioactive waste disposal facility
- Combustible gastado y residuos alta actividad
- Transport of nuclear material
- Physical protection of nuclear facilities and material
Protection of sensitive information
The fundamental principle of confidentiality states that the State must set requirements to protect the confidentiality of information, the unauthorised disclosure of which could compromise the physical protection of nuclear materials and facilities and that, if disclosed without authorisation, could be used by a potential enemy to plan and carry out the theft or unauthorised removal of nuclear material or radioactive sources or for an act of sabotage against nuclear facilities, nuclear material or radioactive sources.
Information on the design, setting up and application of the physical protection measures for nuclear materials and facilities and radioactive sources or any other type of information that compromises their physical protection is therefore considered to affect national security and must be suitably protected.
The Spanish Nuclear Safety Council is responsible for issuing instructions on the measures to protect information on the physical protection of nuclear facilities and materials and radioactive sources. These must be applied by the licensees according to the regulations currently in force for protecting classified information issued by the delegated authority for the security of the classified information.
