Following Department of Energy (DOE) Orders, Technical Standards, and Notice:

DOE-STD-1183-2004

b. Describe the key elements of an effective contractor self assessment nuclear safety

program.

c. Discuss the following nuclear safety assessments/surveillance activities:

Determination of assessment/surveillance requirements

Operation/Area/Site Office and contractor notification

Assessment/surveillance agenda

27. Nuclear safety specialists shall demonstrate a familiarity level knowledge of the

following criticality safety-related American National Standards Institute/American

Nuclear Society (ANSI/ANS) standards:

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

Outside Reactors.

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

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

Absorber in Solutions of Fissile Material

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

Materials.

ANS-8.15, Nuclear Cr iticality Control of Special Actinide Elements

ANS-8.19, Administrative Practices for Nuclear Criticality Safety

Supporting Knowledge and/or Skills

a. Describe the contents, requirements, and relationship among the above American National

Standards In stitute/American Nuclear Society Standards.

b. Discuss the applicability of the above American National Standards Institute/American

Nuclear Society Standards to the Department facilities and processes.

c. Discuss the role of the Department nuclear safety specialists in implementing the

requirements of these Standards.

d. Define the following terms associated with nuclear criticality safety:

Criticality incident

Double contingency principle

Nuclear criticality safety

Significant quantity of fissionable material

Temporary exemption

e. Discuss the Management and Operating (M&O) Contractor responsibilities for the following

in relation to criticality safety activities:

Criticality safety evaluations

Monitoring

Surveillance

Transportation

Storage

28. Nuclear safety specialists shall demonstrate a familiarity level knowledge of the

following Department of Energy (DOE) Orders, Technical Standards, and Notice: