Nuclear Criticality Safety Division

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Nuclear Criticality Safety Division

• Status Report
• to
• Board of Directors
• American Nuclear Society
• June 12, 2002

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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

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NCSD Officials

• 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

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NCSD Committees

• Nominating Committee
• Program Committee
• Membership Committee
• Finance Committee
• Honors and Awards
• Education Committee
• Publications/Newsletter Committee

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NCSD Program Committee

• 2003 Glenn Sjoden
• 2003 Ron Marble
• 2003 Don Meuller
• 2003 Larry Wetzel
• 2004 Harry Felsher
• 2004 Brad Rearden

• 2002 Mark DeHart
• 2002 Bob Wilson
• 2002 Jack Bullington
• 2002 Lon Paulson
• 2002 Bonnie Rumble
• 2002 John Pearson
• 2002 David Hayes

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Technical Sessions
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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

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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

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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).

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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

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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