Introduction of plutonium systems to the nuclear criticality slide rule

M. Duluc; D. Heinrichs; S. Kim; T. Miller; C. Celik; C. Hopper; A. Brown; C. Wilson; M. Troisne

Introduction of plutonium systems to the nuclear criticality slide rule

M. Duluc, D. Heinrichs, S. Kim, T. Miller, C. Celik, C. Hopper, A. Brown, C. Wilson, M. Troisne

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Abstract

AWE (UK), IRSN (France), LLNL (USA) and ORNL (USA) began a long term collaboration effort in 2015 to update the nuclear criticality Slide Rule for the emergency response to a nuclear criticality accident. This document, published almost 20 years ago, gives order of magnitude estimates of key parameters, such as number of fissions and doses (neutron/gamma), useful for emergency response teams and public authorities. This paper presents, firstly, the motivation and the long term objectives for this update, then introduces the initial critical configuration, and finally presents the preliminary results obtained with modern 3D radiation transport codes and nuclear data for new configurations including plutonium systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting
Subtitle of host publication	Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations
Publisher	American Nuclear Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9780894487408
State	Published - 2017
Event	2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations, NCSD 2017 - Carlsbad, United States Duration: Sep 10 2017 → Sep 15 2017

Publication series

Name	ANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations
Volume	2017-September

Conference

Conference	2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations, NCSD 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Carlsbad
Period	09/10/17 → 09/15/17

Funding

This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contracts DE-AC05-00OR22725 and DE-AC52-07NA27344, respectively, and was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Criticality Safety Program and by IRSN. IRSN authors would like to thank Sylvain BEYTOUT, from MILLENNIUM, for the preliminary calculations he did for this update.

Keywords

Nuclear criticality accident
Plutonium systems
Slide rule

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Duluc, M., Heinrichs, D., Kim, S., Miller, T., Celik, C., Hopper, C., Brown, A., Wilson, C., & Troisne, M. (2017). Introduction of plutonium systems to the nuclear criticality slide rule. In ANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations (ANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations; Vol. 2017-September). American Nuclear Society.

Duluc, M. ; Heinrichs, D. ; Kim, S. et al. / Introduction of plutonium systems to the nuclear criticality slide rule. ANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations. American Nuclear Society, 2017. (ANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations).

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Duluc, M, Heinrichs, D, Kim, S, Miller, T , Celik, C, Hopper, C, Brown, A, Wilson, C & Troisne, M 2017, Introduction of plutonium systems to the nuclear criticality slide rule. in ANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations. ANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations, vol. 2017-September, American Nuclear Society, 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations, NCSD 2017, Carlsbad, United States, 09/10/17.

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