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Nuclear Criticality Safety Division

Nuclear Criticality Safety Division. Status Report to Board of Directors American Nuclear Society June 12, 2002. Scope Nuclear Criticality Safety Division. Criticality safety considerations of management of fissile material outside reactors

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Nuclear Criticality Safety Division

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  1. Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Status Report to Board of Directors American Nuclear Society June 12, 2002

  2. ScopeNuclear Criticality Safety Division Criticality safety considerations of • management of fissile material outside reactors • acquisition of data related to nuclear criticality • development and dissemination of information on criticality safety

  3. Officers Chair: Bob Wilson Vice Chair: Michaele (Mikey) Brady-Raap Treasurer/Finance: Tom Doering Secretary: Christa Reed, Exec Committee Kathleen Bhanot Kevin Kimball Richard Taylor Jerry McKamy Lon Paulson Valerie Putman Mark DeHart Paul Felsher Chris Robinson NCSD Officials

  4. NCSD Committees • Nominating Committee • Program Committee • Membership Committee • Finance Committee • Honors and Awards • Education Committee • Publications/Newsletter Committee

  5. 2002 Mark DeHart 2002 Bob Wilson 2002 Jack Bullington 2002 Lon Paulson 2002 Bonnie Rumble 2002 John Pearson 2002 David Hayes 2003 Glenn Sjoden 2003 Ron Marble 2003 Don Meuller 2003 Larry Wetzel 2004 Harry Felsher 2004 Brad Rearden NCSD Program Committee

  6. Technical Sessions

  7. Criticality Safety Standards • ANSI/ANS-8.1, Operations with Fissionable Materials Outside Reactors. • ANSI/ANS-8.3, Criticality Accident Alarm System • ANSI/ANS-8.5, Borosilicate-Glass Raschig Rings • ANSI/ANS-8.7,Storage of Fissile Materials. • ANSI/ANS-8.10, Safety controls With Shielding and Confinement • ANSI/ANS-8.15, Special Actinide Elements • ANSI/ANS-8.19, Administrative Practices • ANSI/ANS-8.20, Nuclear Criticality Safety Training

  8. Criticality Safety Standards • ANSI/ANS-8.21, Fixed Neutron Absorbers • ANSI/ANS-8.22, Limiting and Controlling Moderators • ANSI/ANS-8.23, Emergency Planning and Response • ANSI/ANS-8.9, Steel-Pipe Intersections Containing Aqueous Solutions of Fissile Materials • ANSI/ANS-8.10, Operations With Shielding and Confinement • ANSI/ANS-8.12, Plutonium-Uranium Fuel Mixtures • ANSI/ANS-8.17, Handling, Storage and Transportation of LWR Fuel Outside Reactors

  9. Criticality Safety Education • Current Emphasis – Develop national consensus standard, ANSI/ANS-8.26, “Criticality Safety Engineer Training and Qualification”, Draft now in Working Group (WG) status • White Papers on the Web – Key topics include NCS Education Committee Overview, An Acceptable NCS Evaluation, A Standard CSE, NCS Mentors and Qualifications, Training for non-NCS Managers, Professional Development Workshops and Tutorials • Workshops/Tutorials – efforts continue; burnup credit tutorial planned for Hollywood, FL 2002 meeting • Technical Session Certificates – NCSD Technical Session Certificate of Attendance made available to participants (as demonstration of professional development).

  10. Recent Initiatives • Emerging Issues White Papers • subcommittee to screen issues and develop white paper; then exec committee controls issuance to web. • Local Meetings • 10% of members attend national meetings • need more benefits for rest • local areas meetings proposed to fill gap • Web page – NEED TO UTILIZE MORE

  11. Noteworthy • Membership steadily growing • Attendance at governance meetings high • Committee and officer positions easily filled • Student Session with monetary awards every 2 yrs • Standards Poster Session every 4 years • Routinely provide student travel funds to ANS meetings • Awards created for Distinguished Service and Technical Excellence • Active Education and Standards Committee

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