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 and gamma), useful for emergency response teams and public authorities. This paper will present, firstly the motivation and the long term objectives for this update, then the overview of the initial configurations for updated calculations and preliminary results obtained with modern 3D codes.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 05015 |
| Journal | EPJ Web of Conferences |
| Volume | 153 |
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| State | Published - Sep 25 2017 |
| Event | 13th International Conference on Radiation Shielding, ICRS 2016 and 19th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society, RPSD 2016 - Paris, France Duration: Oct 3 2016 → Oct 6 2016 |
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. IRSN authors would like to thank Sylvain BEYTOUT, from MILLENNIUM, for the preliminary calculations he did for this update.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| U.S. Department of Energy | |
| U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Criticality Safety Program | |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | DE-AC05-00OR22725, DE-AC52-07NA27344 |