Rules, Standards and Guides

DOE-STD-1135-99

This information can be obtained from various textbooks or Criticality Safety Short

Courses. See Appendix A for available training resources.

The individual should be able to:

a. Describe the types of data derived from critical experiments and their use in

criticality safety.

b. Participate in a criticality experiment or subcritical experiment demonstration.

c. Discuss previous criticality accidents and their causal factors.

4.0 Rules, Standards and Guides

Various laws, standards, and guides have been written which direct the performance

of criticality safety across the complex. These are the references used in

development of this Standard. In order to provide consistent understanding of the

policies and rules governing the function of criticality safety, the individual shall

demonstrate familiarity with the following rules, standards, and guides:

ANSI/ANS-8.1, Nuclear Criticality Safety in Operations with Fissionable

Materials Outside Reactors.

ANSI/ANS-8.3, (ANSI N-16.2), Criticality Accident Alarm System

ANSI/ANS-8.5, (ANSI N-16.4), Use of Borosilicate-Glass Raschig Rings as

a Neutron Absorber in Solutions of Fissile Material.

ANSI/ANS-8.6, Safety in Conducting Subcritical Neutron-Multiplication

Measurements In Situ.

ANSI/ANS-8.7, Guide for Nuclear Criticality Safety in the Storage of Fissile

Materials.

ANSI/ANS-8.9, Nuclear Criticality Safety Criteria for Steel-Pipe

Intersections Containing Aqueous Solutions of Fissile Materials.

ANSI/ANS-8.10, Criteria for Nuclear Criticality Safety Controls in

Operations With Shielding and Confinement.

ANSI/ANS-8.12, Nuclear Criticality Control and Safety of Plutonium-

Uranium Fuel Mixtures Outside Reactors.

ANSI/ANS-8.15, Nuclear Criticality Control of Special Actinide Elements.

ANSI/ANS-8.17, Criticality Safety Criteria for the Handling, Storage and

Transportation of LWR Fuel Outside Reactors.

ANSI/ANS-8.19, Administrative Practices for Nuclear Criticality Safety.

ANSI/ANS-8.20, Nuclear Criticality Safety Training.

ANSI/ANS-8.21, Use of Fixed Neutron Absorbers in Nuclear Facilities

Outside Reactors.

ANSI/ANS-8.22, Nuclear Criticality Safety Based on Limiting and

Controlling Moderators.

ANSI/ANS-8.23, Nuclear Criticality Accident Emergency Planning and

Response.

ANSI/ANS-13.3, Dosimetry for Criticality Accidents.