Focus Areas: Training & Education

Student information booklet

Statement of good will regarding cancellations

Student information booklet

Statement of good will regarding cancellations

Nevada Test Site Training Requirements

It Can Happen Here!

Joe Thomas Reminisces

Dr. Robert Wilson discusses the 1978 Idaho Criticality Accident (the last criticality accident in this country)

LANL Heritage Video Conference (2000)

• Session 1: Critical Assemblies for Criticality Safety
• Session 2: Criticality Accidents at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos
• Session 3: Dosimetry of Criticality Accidents
• Session 4 Part 1: Clinical Effects of Criticality Accidents
• Session 4 Part 2: Clinical Effects of Criticality Accidents
• Session 5 Part 1: The Development of ANS Standards for Criticality Safety
• Session 5 Part 2: The Development of ANS Standards for Criticality Safety
• Session 6 Part 1: The Interaction between Criticality Safety Specialists and Operational Personnel
• Session 6 Part 2: The Interaction between Criticality Safety Specialists and Operational Personnel
• Session 7 Part 1: Regulatory Paradigm Shifts
• Session 7 Part 2: Regulatory Paradigm Shifts
• Session 8: Calculational Methods Developed during the Heritage Period
• Session 10: Conference Wrap-Up
  • Discussion 1: The distinction between reactor safety and criticality safety.
  • Discussion 2: Calculational analysis of criticality accidents.
  • Discussion 3 Part 1: The double contingency principle.
  • Discussion 3 Part 2: The double contingency principle.
  • Discussion 4: Chemistry of the 1958 Los Alamos criticality accident.
  • Discussion 5: Administrative changes in plutonium processing.
  • Summary of session 3 and 4
• Heritage Video Conference 2000 Excerpt: The Double Contingency Principle
• 35 Years at Pajarito Canyon Site
   

Oak Ridge Critical Experiments Facility Heritage Videos

ORCEF DVD 1

• Chapter 1: Early History of Criticality Experiments
• Chapter 2: Purposes of Early Critical Experiment Campaigns
• Chapter 3: Early ORCEF Line Organizations & Facilities
• Chapter 4: Facility Description
• Chapter 5: Characteristic Experimental Programs
• Chapter 6: Polonium - Beryllium Neutron Source Experience
• Chapter 7: Operational Safety Experiments & Analysis
• Chapter 8: Additional ORCEF Experimentalists
• Chapter 9: Solution Sphere Experiment
• Chapter 10: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 2

• Chapter 1: Professional and Supplementary ORCEF Activities
• Chapter 2: Overview on Standards and Regulations
• Chapter 3: Development of Criticality Safety Guides
• Chapter 4: Coordination of National Critical Experiment Work
• Chapter 5: Heritage Participants: Introduction & Background
• Chapter 6: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 3

• Chapter 1: Experimental Categories: Basic Physics
• Chapter 2: Early (1946 - 1947) Fluoride Experiments
• Chapter 3: Performance of Gwin and Magnuson Eta Experiments
• Chapter 4: Kinetics and Noise Analysis
• Chapter 5: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 4

• Chapter 1: Experimental Categories: Transportation & Storage
• Chapter 2: Transportation and Storage
• Chapter 3: Experimental Categories: Operations and Production Support
• Chapter 4: Joe Thomas: Array Experiments
• Chapter 5: Dixon Callihan: K-25 Support
• Chapter 6: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 5

• Chapter 1: Experimental Categories: Operations and Production Support
• Chapter 2: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 6

• Chapter 1: Experimental Categories: Reactor Design
• Chapter 2: Dale Magnuson HFIR Research Reactor Experiments
• Chapter 3: Joe Thomas: HFIR Assembly Measurements for Core Performance
• Chapter 4: John Mihalczo: Pulsed Reactor Measurements
• Chapter 5: Dixon Callihan: Army Packaged Power Reactor
• Chapter 6: Dixon Callihan: Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Reactor
• Chapter 7: Additional Reactor Design Critical Assemblies: Pictures
• Chapter 8: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 7

• Chapter 1: Professional Activities
• Chapter 2: Beginning of Nuclear Criticality Safety Data for Standards and Regulations
• Chapter 3: Standards and Regulations
• Chapter 4: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 8

• Chapter 1: Critical Data Reports, Publications, and Forums
• Chapter 2: Documentation
• Chapter 3: Forums
• Chapter 4: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 9

• Chapter 1: Supplementary ORCEF Coordinated Activities
• Chapter 2: Analytical Methods Development
• Chapter 3: KENO Computational Development
• Chapter 4: Sponsor & Credit

ORCEF DVD 10

• DVD 10: Y-12 Accident Radiation Source Simulation
• DVD 10: These are some of the participants of the ORCEF Heritage Project, Sponsor, and Credit

As part of the DOE Nuclear Criticality Safety Program, a series of training modules are provided to assist site training organizations in developing a comprehensive criticality safety training program. These modules are intended to be used in conjunction with other resources such as the Los Alamos hands-on courses and university courses. The material in these NCSET modules is suitable for introductory level training of criticality safety personnel who either do not have a nuclear engineering background or who need a basic level refresher course.

These training materials have been developed for the criticality safety user community. Feedback from the users is important so that new modules can be designed and current modules improved to maximize their benefit to the largest possible audience. Please send your comments, suggestions, etc. to ncsp-nset [at] llnl.gov.

Module 1: Introductory Nuclear Criticality Physics (PDF)

Module 2: Neutron Interactions (PDF)

Module 3: The Fission Chain Reaction (PDF)

Module 4: Neutron Scattering and Moderation (PDF)

Module 5: Criticality Safety Limits (PDF)

Module 6: Introduction to Diffusion Theory (PDF)

Module 7: Introduction to the Monte Carlo Method (PDF)

Module 8: Hand Calculation Methods - Part I (PDF)

Multimedia Module: Buckling Conversion Method

Multimedia Module: Surface Density Method

Critical Dimensions of Systems Containing ²³⁵U, ²³⁹Pu,and ²³³U

Module 9: Hand Calculation Methods - Part 2

Module 10: Criticality Safety in Material Processing Operations - Part 1 (PDF)

Module 11: Criticality Safety in Material Processing Operations - Part 2 (PDF)

Module 12: Preparation of Nuclear Criticality Safety Evaluations (PDF) - August 3, 2010

Module 13: Measurement and Development of Cross Section Sets (PDF)

Module 14: A Review of Criticality Accidents by Thomas McLaughlin (video presentation taped Dec. 10, 1999; running time 1 hr 22 min)

Module 15: Fundamentals of Criticality Safety for Non-material Handlers (web-based interactive training course)

Module 16: Burnup Credit for Criticality Safety Analysis of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel (PDF)