Criticality Safety Plans and Procedures

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requirements for committee members. This summary may be provided in this

chapter or Chapter 17, "Management, Organization, and Institutional Safety

Provisions."

6.5.2

Criticality Safety Plans and Procedures

This section summarizes the criticality safety plans and procedures for

governing operations involving fissile materials. Discuss the document control

measures employed to ensure that plans and procedures, including changes, are

reviewed for adequacy, approved for release by authorized personnel, and

distributed to and used at the locations where fissile materials are used,

processed, or stored.

Include in the summary abstracts of procedures for posting criticality safety

limits, material and operational controls, review of operations, emergency

evacuation, and guidelines for permitting fire fighting water or other

moderating materials used to suppress fires within or adjacent to moderation

control areas. These guidelines on fire fighting are based on comparisons of

risks and consequences of accidental criticality with the risks and

consequences of postulated fires for the respective areas. The bases for

guidelines for fire fighting are to be referenced or documented here. This

section is interdependent with Chapter 11, "Operational Safety" and Chapter

17, "Management, Organization, and Institut ional Safety Provisions."

6.5.3

Criticality Safety Training

This section summarizes the scope of facility wide criticality safety training as

well as the specific training requirements for personnel associated with the

operation of the facility. Discuss specifically the training of personnel on the

configuration of the equipment used to store, handle, transport, or process

fissile material. Reference, as appropriate, Chapter 12, "Procedures and

Training" if that chapter presents requested information.

6.5.4

Determination of Operational Nuclear Criticality Limits

This section summarizes the analytical approach (i.e., methods, codes, and

analysis techniques) used to derive operational nuclear criticality limits,

including the error contingency criteria or margin of error (uncertainty), the

use of contingency analyses, and the basic justification of the appropriateness

of such an approach (i.e., bases and design criteria). This section should not

include detailed calculations and limits for the facility.

This section explains and demonstrates the relationship between operational

nuclear criticality limits and their TSR designations.

6.5.5

Criticality Safety Inspections/Audits

This section summarizes the criticality safety inspection and audit programs

that verify the established procedures used for preventing inadvertent

criticalities. This includes their responsibilities and authorizations and the

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