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Criticality Safety in the Handling of Fissile Material. Specific Safety Guide

Abstract

This Safety Guide provides guidance and recommendations on how to meet the relevant requirements for ensuring subcriticality when dealing with fissile material and for planning the response to criticality accidents. The guidance and recommendations are applicable to both regulatory bodies and operating organizations. The objectives of criticality safety are to prevent a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction and to minimize the consequences of this if it were to occur. The Safety Guide makes recommendations on how to ensure subcriticality in systems involving fissile materials during normal operation, anticipated operational occurrences, and, in the case of accident conditions, within design basis accidents, from initial design through commissioning, operation, and decommissioning and disposal.
Publication Date:
May 15, 2014
Product Type:
Book
Report Number:
STI/PUB-1594
Resource Relation:
Other Information: 38 refs., 1 tab.; Related Information: Series: IAEA Safety Standards Series; no. SSG-27
Subject:
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; COMMISSIONING; CRITICALITY; DECOMMISSIONING; DESIGN; DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS; FISSILE MATERIALS; OPERATION; PLANNING; RADIATION ACCIDENTS; RECOMMENDATIONS; SAFETY
OSTI ID:
22244890
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ISBN 978-92-0-140010-9; ISSN 1020-525X; TRN: XA14M4737066023
Availability:
Also available on-line: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1594_web-51742615.pdf; Enquiries should be addressed to IAEA, Marketing and Sales Unit, Publishing Section, E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/books
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
100 page(s)
Announcement Date:
Jul 07, 2014

Citation Formats

None. Criticality Safety in the Handling of Fissile Material. Specific Safety Guide. IAEA: N. p., 2014. Web.
None. Criticality Safety in the Handling of Fissile Material. Specific Safety Guide. IAEA.
None. 2014. "Criticality Safety in the Handling of Fissile Material. Specific Safety Guide." IAEA.
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abstractNote = {This Safety Guide provides guidance and recommendations on how to meet the relevant requirements for ensuring subcriticality when dealing with fissile material and for planning the response to criticality accidents. The guidance and recommendations are applicable to both regulatory bodies and operating organizations. The objectives of criticality safety are to prevent a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction and to minimize the consequences of this if it were to occur. The Safety Guide makes recommendations on how to ensure subcriticality in systems involving fissile materials during normal operation, anticipated operational occurrences, and, in the case of accident conditions, within design basis accidents, from initial design through commissioning, operation, and decommissioning and disposal.}
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