Engineering topics
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People come to work, wanting, expecting, and planning to do a good job, but people tend to do what makes sense to them in their context. Understanding basic human factors and establishing controls to prevent common human factors issues helps ensure that a criticality accident will never happen again.
The smallest accident, in terms of fission yield and dose rate, that a criticality alarm system is required to detect. Need for a CAS shall be evaluated for all activities in which the inventory in individual unrelated areas exceeds 700g U-235, 500g U-233, 450 g Pu-239 OR 450g of any combination of these three isotopes. Unique configurations exist such that critical mass requirements may be less than the limits noted above.
The agenda for the presentation includes the following topics: Requirements; How is criticality safety practiced; criticality safety evaluations; fissionable material operation review; and, procedures.
The agenda for the presentation is as follows: Human Factors; Accident Review (Tokai Mura, Siberian Chemical Combine); Procedures; Accident Review (Los Alamos Waste Recovery); Environmental Distractions; Accident Review (Idaho Fuel Reprocessing); and, Equipment Reliability.
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Determine what a criticality safety evaluation is. Define the components to a criticality safety evaluation. Define what is needed and how to create a criticality safety evaluation.
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The agenda for the presentation is as follows: Defining the Process (Process Description, The Team, Importance of a Walkdown, Tips and Tricks, Common Mistakes); and, Examples.
The agenda for the presentation is as follows: Critical Systems (Daghlian Accident, Criticality Safety); Nuclear Criticality Safety at Los Alamos National Laboratory (A day in the life); Los Alamos National Laboratory (History, Today, Mission); and, Los Alamos and Surrounding Areas.