[en] Los Alamos has performed independent safety and environmental reviews or has performed evaluations in specific task areas for both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy (DOE) since initiation of the program in 1974. During this period reviews were performed on nine commercial and four DOE operated nuclear facilities. Safety reviews were completed on fourteen research reactors. In addition, physical security reviews were performed on all operating commercial nuclear power reactors and most research reactors

[en] This presentation provides a historical perspective of actions prior to rebuilding the DOE nuclear criticality safety efforts in 1982 and reports key actions/events in the nuclear criticality safety area that have occurred since 1982. Members of the Nuclear Criticality Technology and Safety (Panel) project are listed. Selection criteria are identified for projects in the Nuclear Criticality Safety Outlay Program, and planned projects to maintain and enhance an effective nuclear criticality safety program for prevention of a nuclear criticality accident, are described. Criticality safety funding for FY 1981 through FY 1985 is summarized

[en] This report is a collection of papers on reactor safety. The report takes the form of proceedings from the 1984 DOE Nuclear Reactor and Facility Safety Conference, Volume II of two. These proceedings cover Safety, Accidents, Training, Task/Job Analysis, Robotics and the Engineering Aspects of Man/Safety interfaces

[en] A guide to radiological accident analysis for DOE non-reactor facilities is now in draft form. It covers models and parameters to be used in comparing specific facilities to appropriate dose criteria for major accidental releases of radionuclides. The major benefit will be to put accident analysis for DOE facilities on a common technical and philosophical basis; it will also serve as a resource for DOE analysts, promote a more general consistency within DOE, and provide documentation of the DOE approach

[en] The Reactor Training Coordination Program was recently established to assist the Office of Nuclear Safety in promoting improvements in the quality of Category A reactor operator training programs. This presentation provides the key points that are descriptive of the program, including the need for the program and the steps that led to the origin of the Reactor Training Coordination Program. The methods of approach and current tasks are summarized to provide a description of the cooperative efforts between contractor trainers that are inherent and necessary elements of this program

[en] The Department of Energy (DOE) Albuquerque Operations Office is responsible for the safety overview of nuclear reactor and critical assembly facilities at Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Rocky Flats Plant. The important safety concerns with these facilities involve the complex experiments that are performed, and that is the area emphasized. A determination is made by the Albuquerque Office (AL) with assistance from DOE/OMA whether or not a proposed experiment is an unreviewed safety question. Meetings are held with the contractor to resolve and clarify questions that are generated during the review of the proposed experiment. The AL safety evaluation report is completed and any recommendations are discussed. Prior to the experiment a preoperational appraisal is performed to assure that personnel, procedures, and equipment are in readiness for operations. During the experiment, any abnormal condition is reviewed in detail to determine any safety concerns

[en] The presenter discussed the Job and Task Analysis (JTA) project conducted at Brookhaven National Laboratory's High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR). The project's goal was to provide JTA guidelines for use by DOE contractors, then, using the guidelines conduct a JTA for the reactor operator and supervisor positions at the HFBR. Details of the job analysis and job description preparation as well as details of the task selection and task analysis were given. Post JTA improvements to the HFBR training programs were covered. The presentation concluded with a listing of the costs and impacts of the project

[en] Specific points of guidance provided in the forthcoming document A Guide to Radiological Accident Considerations for Siting and Design of Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities are discussed. Of these, the following are considered of particular interest to analysts of hypothetical accidents: onsite dose limits; population dose, public health effects, and environmental contamination as accident consequences which should be addressed; risk analysis; natural phenomena as accident initiators; recommended dose models; multiple organ equivalent dose; and recommended methods and parameters for source terms and release amount calculations. Comments are being invited on this document, which is undergoing rewrite after the first stage of peer review

[en] A status of nuclear criticality safety is presented. The Nuclear Criticality Technology and Safety Project, funded at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Office of Nuclear Safety, DOE Headquarters, is described. The Project is intended to enhance cooperation among contractor criticality safety people and promote a coherent DOE program in nuclear oriticality safety

[en] During the past few years the nuclear industry has become concerned with predicting human performance in nuclear power plants. One of the best means available at the present time to make sure that training, procedures, job performance aids and plant hardware match the capabilities and limitations of personnel is by performing a detailed analysis of the tasks required in each job position. The approved method for this type of analysis is referred to as job or task analysis. Job analysis is a broader type of analysis and is usually thought of in terms of establishing overall performance objectives, and in establishing a basis for position descriptions. Task analysis focuses on the building blocks of task performance, task elements, and places them within the context of specific performance requirements including time to perform, feedback required, special tools used, and required systems knowledge. The use of task analysis in the nuclear industry has included training validation, preliminary risk screening, and procedures development