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American Nuclear Society. Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Fitz Trumble June 2008 Anaheim, CA. NCSD Mission. NCSD focuses on the prevention of criticality accidents in areas outside of nuclear reactors

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  1. American Nuclear Society Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Fitz Trumble June 2008 Anaheim, CA

  2. 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

  3. 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. D’Aquila (USEC), (2010) • BOD Liaison: Marvin Fertel

  4. NCSD Membership Trends

  5. Professional Demographics

  6. Industrial Demographics

  7. NCSD Budget

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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. NCSD Services to Membership • Professional Development • Leadership Development • Scholarships • Peer Recognition/Awards • Student Support • Standards

  15. 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

  16. 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”

  17. 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

  18. NCSD Metrics 2007

  19. 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

  20. 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

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