LANL Pipeline Updates: Existing NCS Spurs & New SB Opportunity at TAMU
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Kuropatwinski, James J.↗
Engineering topics
Kuropatwinski, James J.
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Boosting the LANSCE UCN Source Density
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Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics↗
Brief Introduction to the Hazard Analysis Process [Slides]
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Factors that Affect Nuclear Criticality Safety & Brief Introduction to the Safety Evaluation Process [Slides]
Learning Objectives: Know that there are multiple sets of factors affecting nuclear criticality safety; Know how the neutron physics relates to physical factors; Know the basic requirements for performing a safety evaluation; Know the basic process for performing a safety evaluation.
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Internal Collaboration on Recent Nuclear Criticality Safety Assessments
Prevention of inadvertent criticality at facilities with large quantities of fissionable materials is one of the most important requirements those facilities grapple with. Given that criticality cannot be mitigated, only eliminated, a hard line must be taken on this requirement. The facilities and sites with the possibility of such an event must abide by a plethora of requirements, most stemming from the ANSI/ANS-8 series of consensus standards. One such standard, ANSI/ANS-8.19, Administrative Practices for Nuclear Criticality Safety, gives requirements and recommendations necessary for establishing a nuclear criticality safety program for a given facility or site. One of those requirements includes periodic assessments of the NCS program. To meet the assessment requirement, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) conducts periodic assessments on individual facilities and overall programmatic health aspects. The teams developed to perform these assessments include people both inside and outside the LANL NCS program. Recently, the Nuclear Criticality Safety Division and the Critical Experiments Team of the Advanced Nuclear Technology Group established a collaboration to aid in fulfilling the assessment requirement.
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