scope:

PURPOSE AND SCOPE

General

This document provides criteria specific to new and existing nuclear weapons-capable maintenance and storage facilities, including unique criteria related to (but not limited to) facility sustainment, restoration, and modernization (FSRM), and military construction (MILCON), including design and construction. These criteria apply both to spaces where nuclear weapons may be located and to spaces and supporting systems required for nuclear weapons surety. These facilities are relatively few in number and are uniquely designed to protect the Air Force mission, ensure continuity of facility operations, limit property damage, and provide on-site personnel safety.

Basis of Design

This document is intended to be used as a basis for the development of detailed design documents (including scope, basis of design, technical requirements, plans, drawings, specifications, cost estimates, request for proposals, and invitations for bids) used for the procurement of facilities, facility similar equipment, and other infrastructure systems.

Procurement of Services

This document must be used as a requirement in the procurement of architectural and engineering (A&E) services and other consulting services to prepare detailed design documents, including those for design-build projects. It is not intended to be used in lieu of detailed design documents in the procurement of facility construction.

Performance Goals

The performance goals of this document are to ensure that:

• Lightning strikes to the facility will not result in a side flash inside the facility that will compromise the surety of nuclear weapons

• Facility power systems, including all emergency power systems, are adequate to supply power to facility systems required to maintain the surety of nuclear weapons

• Facility structural supports for hoists, cranes, and lifting devices are adequately rated for the design loads

• Security meets the requirements of DoD S‐5210.41 / AFMAN 31-108

• Nuclear surety deviations for existing facilities and essential facility systems are documented in accordance with AFI 91-101

• Blast containment and isolation systems mitigate contamination of facilities and weapons by limiting radiation transport mechanisms such as explosions, blasts, and fires

• Studies, including an FHA, an EMRE survey, and a facility characterization for the seven-foot rule (if implemented), are conducted to support the adequate design and operational issues in these areas, ensure the safety of weapons, and provide baseline documentation

• Updates to these studies, including for the FHA, EMRE, and facility characterization (if implemented), are conducted if any proposed facility change or modification involves, affects, or impacts systems covered by the existing studies, and the updated studies reflect the effect of the modification on study conclusions and recommendations

• Fire safety designs are implemented to ensure that:

o Fire during any operational state will not prevent the facility from maintaining weapons in a safe, secure, and stable condition

o Fire will not result in a radiological release that adversely affects the public, facility personnel, or the environment

o Fire itself will not cause a loss of life to those not intimately exposed to the fire origin, and injuries are minimized for those that are intimately exposed

o Fire hazards to personnel are minimized by adding areas of refuge to restricted access/egress rooms

o A fire will be limited such that facility damage, economic loss, and interruption of support to DoD missions are limited to an acceptable level, as defined by the Cognizant Office of Responsibility