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Heritage Videos

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

Conference Wrap-Up

Session 10 — Discussion 1: The distinction between reactor safety and criticality safety.

Session 10 — Discussion 2: Calculational analysis of criticality accidents.

Session 10 — Discussion 3 Part 1: The double contingency principle.

Session 10 — Discussion 3 Part 2: The double contingency principle.

Session 10 — Discussion 4: Chemistry of the 1958 Los Alamos criticality accident.

Session 10 — Discussion 4: Chemistry of the 1958 Los Alamos criticality accident.

Summary: Session 3 and 4

Heritage Video Conference 2000 Excerpt: The Double Contingency Principle

35 Years at Pajarito Canyon Site