Safety analysis report for packaging shielding and nuclear criticality safety courses developed and conducted by oak ridge national laboratory

D. G. Bowen, J. M. Risner, B. L. Broadhead, E. M. Saylor, C. V. Parks

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Abstract

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Packaging Certification Program, Office of Packaging and Transportation, is offering Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP) Shielding and Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS) courses for SARP generalists and analysts. The SARP generalist course is designed for project managers, supervisors, NCS/shielding subject matter experts (SME), and SMEs in non-NCS/shielding technical areas (e.g., structural, thermal, package design) who need to better understand how NCS/shielding analyses fit into the broader body of SARP documentation. The generalist course provides an overview of the regulations and guidelines for the criticality and shielding analyses for a SARP and illustrates how the NCS/shielding chapters integrate with the other parts of the SARP. After course material is presented, students in the generalist course will review an actual SARP document to examine key elements of the shielding and criticality analyses. The analyst course provides detailed instructions on the radioactive material package shielding analyses and NCS evaluation fundamentals needed by analysts/practitioners (i.e., safety analysts and/or technical reviewers) to prepare and/or review technical analyses for the SARP documentation. The analyst course also provides an overview of regulations and guidelines, in addition to detailed in-class exercises associated with package shielding and NCS analyses. Analysis teams will be faced with staged SARP examples in which several important decision processes in the generation of a SARP will be demonstrated and discussed. The courses are offered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s National Transportation Research Center.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting
Subtitle of host publicationCriticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations
PublisherAmerican Nuclear Society
ISBN (Electronic)9780894487408
StatePublished - 2017
Event2017 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 2017Sep 15 2017

Publication series

NameANS NCSD - 2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations
Volume2017-September

Conference

Conference2017 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting: Criticality Safety - Pushing Boundaries by Modernizing and Integrating Data, Methods, and Regulations, NCSD 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCarlsbad
Period09/10/1709/15/17

Keywords

  • Education
  • Nuclear criticality safety
  • SARP
  • Shielding
  • Training
  • Transportation

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