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Criticality safety criteria for license review of low-level waste facilities

Author(s) -

C.M. Hopper,

R.H. Odegaarden,

C.V. Parks,

P.B. Fox

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/33119

Subject(s) - nuclear decommissioning , license , oak ridge national laboratory , criticality , radioactive waste , nuclear criticality safety , engineering , waste management , environmental science , computer science , nuclear physics , physics , operating system

The handling and burial of specified quantities of special nuclear material (SNM) at low-level-waste (LLW) facilities require a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). With assistance from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) staff, the NRC Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Low-Level-Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch, has developed technical specifications for the nuclear criticality safety of {sup 235}U and {sup 239}Pu in LLW facilities. The objective of the development of these technical specifications was to establish a set of review criteria that are rigorously defensible that can be applied uniformly to all license applications, and that conservatively ensures that buried SNM will not pose a criticality safety concern

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