Overview of the joint US/Russia surety program in the Sandia National Laboratories Cooperative Measures Program
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center Inst. of Experimental Physics, Sarov (Russian Federation)
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center Inst. of Technical Physics, Snezhinsk (Russian Federation)
Sandia National Laboratories has initiated many joint research and development projects with the two premier Russian nuclear laboratories, VNIIEF and VNIITF, (historically known as Arzamas-16 and Chelyabinsk-70) in a wide spectrum of areas. One of the areas in which critical dialogue and technical exchange is continuing to take place is in the realm of system surety. Activities primarily include either safety or security methodology development, processes, accident environment analyses and testing, accident data-bases, assessments, and product design. Furthermore, a continuing dialog has been established between the organizations with regard to developing a better understanding of how risk is perceived and analyzed in Russia versus that in the US. The result of such efforts could reduce the risk of systems to incur accidents or incidents resulting in high consequences to the public. The purpose of this paper is to provide a current overview of the Sandia surety program and its various initiatives with the Russian institutes, with an emphasis on the program scope and rationale. The historical scope of projects will be indicated. A few specific projects will be discussed, along with results to date. The extension of the joint surety initiatives to other government and industry organizations will be described. This will include the current status of a joint Sandia/VNIIEF initiative to establish an International Surety Center for Energy Intensive and High Consequence Systems and Infrastructures.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 653934
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-98-0330C; CONF-980621-; ON: DE98004218; BR: DP0102021; TRN: 98:010057
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ESREL`98: European safety and reliability conference, Trondheim (Norway), 16-19 Jun 1998; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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