The Criticality Safety Information Resource Center (CSIRC) at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Conference · Mon Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:762500

Henderson, Barbara D. ^[1]; Meade, Roger A. ^[1]; Pruvost, Norman L. ^[2]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
2. Galaxy Computer Services, Inc., Santa Fe, NM (United States)

The Criticality Safety Information Resource Center (CSIRC) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a program jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in conjunction with the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Recommendation 97-2. The goal of CSIRC is to preserve primary criticality safety documentation from U.S. critical experimental sites and to make this information available for the benefit of the technical community. Progress in archiving criticality safety primary documents at the LANL archives as well as efforts to make this information available to researchers are discussed. The CSIRC project has a natural linkage to the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP). This paper raises the possibility that the CSIRC project will evolve in a fashion similar to the ICSBEP. Exploring the implications of linking the CSIRC to the international criticality safety community is the motivation for this paper.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Galaxy Computer Services, Inc., Santa Fe, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 762500
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-99-2228; TRN: US0100131
• Resource Relation: Conference: ICNC '99: 6. International Conference on Nuclear Criticality, Palais des Congres, Versailles (France), 20-24 Sep 1999; Other Information: PBD: 20 Sep 1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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