Nuclear Criticality Safety Aspects of Emergency Response at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Conference
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OSTI ID:976498
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Emergency response at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is handled through a graded approach depending on the specific emergency situation. LANL maintains a comprehensive capability to respond to events ranging from minor facility events (alerts) through major community events (general emergencies), including criticality accidents. Criticality safety and emergency response apply to all activities involving significant quantities of fissile material at LANL, primarily at Technical Area 18 (TA-18, the Los Alamos Critical Experiments Facility) and Technical Area 55 (TA-55, the Plutonium Facility). This discussion focuses on response to a criticality accident at TA-55; the approach at TA-18 is comparable.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
- OSTI ID:
- 976498
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--03-0199
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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