ML20044A494
| ML20044A494 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 06/20/1990 |
| From: | Wilson R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Bidinger G NRC |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9006290122 | |
| Download: ML20044A494 (2) | |
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NOTE TO: George Bidinger FROM:
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1990 ANS SUMMER MEETING IN NASHVILLE I
During June 10 to 14, I-attended the 1990 Annual Meeting of the American Nuclear Society in Nashville, Tennessee. On June 10 I attended meetings of the Nuclear i..
Criticality Safety Division (NCSD) Program Comittee and Executive Comittee.
'The new officers of the division are:
Chairman:-
Linda Capano-Dolan Vice Chairman:
Robert Wilson Secretary:
Donna D'Aquila
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Richard Malenfant t
- The NCSD now has 430 members, an all time high. The University of New Mexico will' offer two courses this sumer on criticality safety. There will be a l
" Criticality. Alarm Workshop" at Los Alamos during August 14-18, 1990. The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) course on criticality safety-is on hold while the critical facility is shut down. The Executive Comittee approved another set of bylaws.
Future NCSD sponsored sessions at national meetings are projected to be:
Washington D.C. 11/90 Burnup Credit Allowance in the Storage and Transportation of LWR Fuel Criticality Safety Support of LMR Technology Forum on Historical Perspectives on the Development of Nuclear Safety Orlando, Florida 6/91 c
L Evaluations as a Result of Accidental Criticalities L
Criticality Experiments and Modeling SARPs and Criticality Safety in Transportation l
San Francisco 11/91 l.
ANS-8 Standards-Poster Session Validation Practices Student Research on Nuclear Criticality Safety p
Boston 6/92 i
Use of P.C.'s in Criticality Safety Eastern Europe Experience in Criticality Safety Criticality Issues in Waste Management p %,3, L
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The ANS meetings plenary sessions looked at national (Tuesday) and international (Monday) )erspectives on nuclear energy. Senator Gore promoted any solution to the green 1ouse effect and encouraged the ANS to develop safer nuclear reactors and a solution to waste storage so nuclear energy could contribute to the i
solution.
Representatives from the White House (Gene Wong) and mainland China (Lu Yingzhong) affirmed the importance of nuclear energy to economic development.
The regulatory issues highlighted by utilities were the "out of control" state rate comissions.
The NCSD sponsored a tutorial on the CASMO-3/ SIMULATE-3 computer codes. Those are reactor core life cycle codes and were being promoted as codes for burnup F
credit calculations.
The session on Administrative and Engineering Control Applications for Unfavorable Geometry had four papers and one no show. The use of Root Cause Analysis and Fault Tree Methodologies in evaluation of the issue were presented. Another paper from LANL discussed an array of poisoned material amongst a tube array. The Y-12 transfer philosophy of moving uranium solution from small to large tanks was discussed in a paper. A paper on the effect of eight types of concrete as reflector or isolating material showed large differences. Several papers described the safety evaluation of processes in DOE facilities. A paper of considerable interest showed that the instructions in KEN 0 manuals for using Hanson-Roach physics data is not correct. Methods for calculating the resonance correction were recomended. A paper on KEN 0.PC documented the validation and expected running times for the code. The methods of vectoring KEN 0 Sa were reviewed and time savings discussed. A paper by Norm Ketzlach recommended minimum qualification standards-for criticality safety professionals.
For the meeting in general, the information presented in papers and discussed informally structured a valuable learning experience for any professional.
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