Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear criticality safety pipeline for expedited qualification of personnel
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OSTI ID:22973049
- Nuclear Criticality Safety Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (United States)
The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS) Pipeline is a method of accelerating the training and qualification of its next generation nuclear criticality safety professionals. An upper division university course in NCS will be offered at participating universities; students who perform well can participate in a summer internship in the LANL NCS Division the following summer focusing on NCS practices and facility specific training for qualification. Standout students may proceed with a criticality safety oriented research project worked during the senior academic year. The culmination of the pipeline is the hiring of students as full time personnel. This practice reduces the uncertainty around knowing whether the individual: -1) has the technical skills, knowledge, and abilities to succeed in criticality safety, -2) will be able to effectively integrate within the organization, and -3) is interested enough in the discipline to reduce potential retention issues. This approach will address significant challenges in the NCS industry, including rising attrition rates over the next two decades, significant time and resources typically required to train qualified criticality safety professionals once hired, and the absence of available NCS-related academic course work available at colleges and universities. The university pipeline results in several benefits: -1) reduced training time and costs, -2) interested students will naturally self-sort and pursue the discipline at the university level, and -3) a pipeline of criticality safety candidates is readily available within the DOE Complex so that unexpected organizational or mission changes can be reacted to with increased agility. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22973049
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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