Technical basis for the nuclear criticality representative accident and associated represented hazardous conditions

Technical Report · Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 EST 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/810645· OSTI ID:810645

CARSON, D M

This technical basis document was developed to support the Tank Farms Documented Safety Analysis (DSA), and describes the risk binning process and the technical basis for assigning risk bins for the nuclear criticality representative accident and associated hazardous conditions. The purpose of the risk binning process is to determine the need for safety-significant structures, systems, and components (SSC) and technical safety requirement (TSR)-level controls for a given representative accident or represented hazardous condition based on an evaluation of the frequency and consequence. Note that the risk binning process is not applied to facility workers, because all facility worker hazardous conditions are considered for safety-significant SSCs and/or TSR-level controls. Determination of the need for safety-class SSCs was performed in accordance with DOE-STD-3009-94, ''Preparation Guide for US Department of Energy Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Documented Safety Analyses'', as described in this report.

• Research Organization: FFS (US); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC27-99RL14047
• OSTI ID: 810645
• Report Number(s): RPP-12371, Rev.0; EDT-636615
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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