Seventy-Five Years of Nuclear Criticality Safety Documents--A Bibliography
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
A collection of nuclear criticality documents was begun in the 1970s at the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). Documents in this bibliography are dated as early as 1940. The early documents described experimental work that was of vital importance to the safe use of fissile materials at nuclear reactors, the facilities for preparing or transporting nuclear fuel, or its eventual storage. The experiments were of direct value to support safe operations with fissile materials, but they were also needed for validating early physics data and calculational methods and then for validating computational methods used in criticality safety evaluations. These documents provided information for our computerized bibliographic database. The bibliography was originally intended for use by Livermore staff members but criticality safety "pioneers” encouraged us to make the database available to the broader nuclear safety community and even shared copies of their bibliographies and reports. A publication of the bibliography is being prepared and a searchable database is available on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Criticality Safety Program’s NCSP website. The NCSP website also includes links from the bibliography to many full-text documents. The database continues to expand--the information in this paper is based on a “snapshot” of its present status. The “vintage” hardcopy document collection is preserved and is being scanned into digital format.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1393359
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-CONF-732671
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Seventy-Five Years of Nuclear Criticality Safety Documents A Bibliography, Part II, Carlsbad, NM (United States), 10-15 Sep 2017
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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