American Nuclear Society

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American Nuclear Society

• Nuclear Criticality Safety Division
• Presentation to the
• ANS Board of Directors
• Fitz Trumble
• June 2008 Anaheim, CA

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NCSD Mission

• NCSD focuses on the prevention of criticality
  accidents in areas outside of nuclear reactors
• Promote the safe handling of fissionable
  materials outside reactors
• Promote the arts and sciences of nuclear
  criticality safety
• Provide exchange of technical information among
  NCS professionals through
• development of standards
• evolution of training methods and materials
• presentation of technical data and procedures
• creation of specialty publications

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NCSD Executive Committee

• Chair Fitz Trumble, WSMS.
• Vice Chair David Hayes, Los Alamos National Lab.
• Secretary Brad Rearden, Oak Ridge National Lab.
• Treasurer Robert Frost, NSA.
• Executive Committee members
• Larry Berg (DOE-CTA), Tom Burns (Parsons), Chuck
  Harmon (LANL), 2008
• John A. Miller (LANL), Sedat Goluoglu (ORNL),
  Sandra L. Larson (Nuc. Saf. Assoc.), (2009)
• Peter L. Angelo (Y-12), Darby S. Kimball
  (Bechtel), Donna M. DAquila (USEC), (2010)
• BOD Liaison Marvin Fertel

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NCSD Membership Trends
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Professional Demographics
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Industrial Demographics
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NCSD Budget
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NCSD Planning

• Strategic and Succession Plans
• One-year and five-year plans modeled after
  current ANS strategic plan

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NCSD Contributions to ANS

• ANS Position Statements / White Papers
• Fact Sheet about criticality accidents for
  public/news media, white papers on good NCS
  practices (currently 6 approved white papers)
• Other Professional Societies
• EFCOG (SAWG)
• International collaborations, including
  International Conference on Nuclear Criticality,
  Russia 2007
• Non-Meeting Publication efforts are primarily in
  ANSI/ANS Standards

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Importance of Standards

• These are a vital part of the information sharing
  that has led to fewer criticality accidents
• Continuing dialogue among subject matter experts
• Accepted by DOE and NRC
• De facto rules for this discipline
• Provide value to industry leads to industry
  participation
• Involves many volunteers
• Opportunities for young members

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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-8.6, In-Situ Measurements for
  Criticality Safety
• ANSI/ANS-8.7, Storage of Fissile Materials.
• ANSI/ANS-8.10, Safety controls With Shielding and
  Confinement
• ANSI/ANS-8.12, Plutonium-Uranium Fuel Mixtures

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Criticality Safety Standards

• ANSI/ANS-8.14, Soluble Neutron Absorbers
• ANSI/ANS-8.15, Special Actinide Elements
• ANSI/ANS-8.17, Handling, Storage and
  Transportation of LWR Fuel Outside Reactors
• ANSI/ANS-8.19, Administrative Practices
• ANSI/ANS-8.20, Nuclear Criticality Safety
  Training
• ANSI/ANS-8.21, Fixed Neutron Absorbers
• ANSI/ANS-8.22, Limiting and Controlling
  Moderators
• ANSI/ANS-8.23, Emergency Planning and Response

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Criticality Safety Recently Issued and Proposed
Standards

• ANSI/ANS-8.24, Validation of Calculational
  Methods (approved 2006)
• ANSI/ANS-8.26, Criticality Safety Engineer
  Training and Qualification (approved 2007)
• ANSI/ANS-8.27, Burnup Credit
• ANSI/ANS-8.25, Criticality Safety Postings

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NCSD Services to Membership

• Professional Development
• Leadership Development
• Scholarships
• Peer Recognition/Awards
• Student Support
• Standards

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Professional Development

• Professional development workshops
• Issue high costs lead to lower attendance,
  particularly of young members
• Continuing education certificates to attendees of
  NCSD technical sessions
• ANSI/ANS-8.26 national standard on criticality
  safety engineer (CSE) training and qualification
  issued
• NCSD Awards Technical Excellence and Service to
  NCSD each year

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NCSD Meeting Participation

• Average 5-6 sessions at national meeting
• Topical meetings every 4 years
• Tremendously successful 2005 topical
• 170 attendees, 37K profit
• Strong international attendance
• Still had 5 sessions at this ANS Winter Meeting
  only 2 months later
• Leadership Development
• Opportunity to get involved
• Strengthening leadership skills
• 50-70 people in governance sessions on Sundays
• Made presentation to National Program Committee
  on Why NCSD is so Successful

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Topical Meetings

• NCSD 2001 Embedded Topical, Reno, NV
• International Criticality Nuclear Conference
  (ICNC) 2003, Japan
• NCSD 2005 Topical, Sept. 2005, Knoxville, TN 75
  papers and 170 attendees
• ICNC 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia
• NCSD 2009 Topical Richland, WA

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NCSD Metrics 2007
DivisionMeetings Division Governance Division Contributions to Society Division Services to Membership
NationalMeetingParticipation2007 Summer 2 sessions / 1 forum2007 Winter 2 sessions / 1 forum /1 panel SuccessionPlanning 2007 Succession Plan submitted 2007 (Annual Submission) ANS Position StatementsNuc Crit Accidents in Work Place (fact sheet)(Revised 2006) Not responsible for Position Statements ProfessionalDevelopmentTutorial on SCALE code system Nov. 076 Education White Papers issued and posted on Web Site
Class IClass IITopicalsNuclear Crit Safety Topical Sept 05150/186 MembershipTrends777/793 members 2.1 change 2006793/820 members 3.4 change 2007 Participation withOutside ProfessionalSocietiesEFCOG (safety analysis working group) Workshop at 2007 meetingRussian Nuclear Society Support for the 2007 International Conference of Nuclear Criticality ScholarshipsNCSD Pioneers Scholarship
Class IIITopicals/- 25 attendance (145/150) Nuclear Crit Safety Topical Nov 01Embedded Communications2 newsletters in 2007website updated in 2007 SocietyLeadership 4 of 4 PDC All NPC 75Exec Comm attendance Peer Recognition/AwardsNCSD provides Technical Excellence, Distinguished Services awards annually
DivisionPlanning5-yr Strategic Plan submitted to PDC Chair in May 2007 Non-MeetingPublicationsContinued support of 15 active ANS-8 Standards and issued 2 new standardsANS 8-24 IssuedANS-8.26 IssuedANS 8-27 Sent to ANS 8 StudentSupport2007 National Meetings2007 Student Conf2007 Other
Divisions Commitment to YMGSupported YMG mixer with NCSD officers Provided multiple panel members to YMG workshop on Early Career Awarded 2007 Young Members Advancement Award
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Summary

• Very successful topical meeting in 2005
• Diverse membership, good international
  participation
• Strong standards committees
• 1st NCSD Scholarship awarded in 2008
• Strong support for young members recognized with
  ANS Young Member Advancement Award in 2007

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NCSD Requests to BOD

• Larger room for governance meetings
• Continued support by NPC to assure adequate room
  size for technical sessions based on sustained
  high attendance figures
• Lower cost for professional development workshops
  increases attendance, particularly young
  members
• Larger per member distribution