Postulated Accident Scenarios in Weapons Disassembly

Conference · Sat May 10 00:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI ID:543251

Payne, S. S. ^[1]

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1. US Department of Energy (USDOE), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

A very brief summary of three postulated accident scenarios for weapons disassembly is provided in the paper. The first deals with a tetrahedral configuration of four generic pits; the second, an infinite planar array of generic pits with varying interstitial water density; and the third, a spherical shell with internal mass suspension in water varying the size and mass of the shell. Calculations were performed using the Monte Carlo Neutron Photon transport code MCNP4A. Preliminary calculations pointed to a need for higher resolution of small pit separation regimes and snapshots of hydrodynamic processes of water/plutonium mixtures.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); US Department of Energy (USDOE), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
• OSTI ID: 543251
• Report Number(s): LA-13277-C; CONF-9405144-; ON: DE97007297; TRN: 97:020292
• Resource Relation: Conference: Nuclear Criticality Technology Safety Project Workshop , Williamsburg, VA (United States), 10-11 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the nuclear criticality technology safety project; Sanchez, R.G. [comp.]; PB: 184 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
NUCLEAR WEAPONS DISMANTLEMENT
CRITICALITY
NUCLEAR CORES
GEOMETRY
RADIATION ACCIDENTS
Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
Weapon Accident Scenarios
Weapons Disassembly
Calculations