Proposed American National Standard ANS-8.23: Nuclear criticality accident emergency planning and response
- Mohr and Associates, Richland, WA (United States)
- Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
A working group was appointed by the American Nuclear Society standards subcommittee ANS-8 in 1992 to write a standard that provides more guidance in planning and response to a criticality accident than that given in American National Standard, {open_quotes}Administrative Practices for Nuclear Criticality Safety,{close_quotes} American National Standards Institute/American Nuclear Society (ANSI/ANS)-8.19-1984(R89). The scope of the standard is that it provides guidance for minimizing risks to personnel during emergency response to a nuclear criticality accident outside reactors. This standard applies to those facilities for which a criticality accident alarm system, as specified in ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, {open_quotes}Criticality Accident Alarm System,{close_quotes} is required. The standard does not apply to nuclear power plant sites or to those licensed research reactor facilities that are addressed by the provisions of the ANSI/ANS-3.8 series and ANSI/ANS-l5.16, respectively. It does not apply to off-site transportation accidents or off-site emergency planning and response.
- OSTI ID:
- 426428
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961103--
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 75; ISSN TANSAO; ISSN 0003-018X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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