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Current status of the doe nuclear criticality safety program hands-on criticality safety training course at sandia

Topical Meeting Held by the ANS Nuclear Criticality Safety Division, NCSD 2013 - Criticality Safety in the Modern Era: Raising the Bar

Harms, Gary A.; Knief, Ronald A.; Miller, Allison D.; Ford, John T.

A hands-on critical-experiment training class has been developed by the US DOE Nuclear Criticality Safety Program using the water-moderated pin-fueled critical experiments at Sandia National Laboratories. The class is offered as part of the NCSP training program for Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineers in a facility that allows attendance by both cleared and uncleared personnel. Laboratory exercises have been developed that demonstrate the effects of varying a number of the parameters that are considered important to criticality safety. Accompanying the experiments is a series of classroom presentations that emphasize the concepts that are demonstrated in the experiments.

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TYPE Conference YEAR 2013
OSTIScopus

Hands-on criticality safety training at Sandia national laboratories

Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

Harms, Gary A.; Knief, Ronald A.; Miller, Allison D.; Ford, John T.

The US Department of Energy Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP) has supported hands-on criticality safety training at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the past and more recently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. These courses have provided a practical understanding of the processes involved in nuclear criticality through laboratory exercises for a large number of students over many years. The NCSP sponsored the development of an expanded training course for Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineers that includes a one-week session of classroom training to be offered at LANL and two equivalent one-week hands-on training sessions at the critical experiment facility at the Nevada National Security Site and at the critical experiment facility at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) The class is now being offered as part of the training for Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineers. This paper describes the critical experiment training course offered at SNL.

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TYPE Conference YEAR 2012
OSTIScopus
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