Nuclear Materials Safety Management Volume II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Welcome and Introduction

   1. Opening Remarks

      • Leslie J. Jardine

      Pages 1-2

3. Overviews and Perspectives

   1. Russian Viewpoint on the Safety of Nuclear Materials

      • V. A. Gubanov

      Pages 3-8

   2. U.S. Perspectives on Nuclear Materials Safety

      • Terry R. Lash

      Pages 9-15

   3. The RF Regulators’ View of Nuclear Materials Safety

      • A. M. Dmitriyev, A. I. Kislov

      Pages 17-20

   4. Medical Provision of Radiation Safety While Handling Radioactive Substances

      • Svetlana G. Monastyrskaia

      Pages 21-24

   5. Summary of Nuclear Materials Safety ARW in Amarillo and Its Relationship to this Workshop

      • K. L. Peddicord, Leonard N. Lazarev, Leslie J. Jardine

      Pages 25-29

4. Reactor Safety and Mox Fuels

   1. Cooperative Efforts to Improve the Safety of Soviet-Designed Nuclear Power Plants

      • Laurin R. Dodd

      Pages 31-42

   2. Research on Nuclear Criticality Safety and Accident Risk Evaluation for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities

      • S. K. Kouzmine, B. G. Ryazanov, V. I. Sviridov, V. V. Frolov

      Pages 43-51

   3. Safety and the French-German-Russian Trilateral Mox Fabrication Facility in Russia—Demox

      • G. Brähler, J. Pierre, Evgeni I. Tyurin, L. I. Petrova

      Pages 53-59

   4. Safety of the Belgonucleaire Mox Fabrication Plant

      • Yvon Vanderborck, Jean Van Vliet

      Pages 61-71

   5. Ensuring the Safety of Mox Fuel Transport

      • A. V. Afanassiev, A. L. Lazarev, N. S. Tikhonov, A. I. Tokarenko

      Pages 73-78

   6. Safety Problems for Long-Term Underground Storage and Final Disposal of Nuclear Materials

      • T. A. Gupalo, V. P. Beygul, R. T. Islamov

      Pages 79-83

5. Vitrification Safety with Extrapolations to Plutonium

   1. Safety Issues of Russian EP-500 Ceramic Melter and the Feasibility of Its Usage to Vitrify PU-Containing Materials

      • G. B. Borisov, A. S. Polyakov, O. A. Mansourov

      Pages 85-94

   2. French Vitrification Process Safety Issues

      • Pierre Hubert

      Pages 95-103

   3. British Vitrification Process Safety Issues

      • C. J. Thompson

      Pages 105-111

   4. DWPF Vitrification Safety Issues

      • F. Beranek

      Pages 113-116

   5. Mol Vitrification Process (Pamela) Safety Issues

      • Jef Claes

      Pages 117-127

6. Plutonium Processing Safety Issues of Immobilization in Ceramics

   1. Safety Problems of Plutonium Management and Its Immobilization in Crystal Mineral-Like Forms

      • E. B. Anderson, B. E. Burakov, E. I. Ilyenko

      Pages 129-136

   2. Safety Issues of U. S. Ceramic Process for Excess Plutonium Immobilization

      • Chin W. Ma, Leslie J. Jardine, Guy A. Armantrout

      Pages 137-147

LESLIE J. JARDINE Lmvrence Livermore National LaboratOlY Livermore, CA 94551 U. S. A. The Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Nuc1ear Materials Safety held lune 8-10, 1998, in St. Petersburg, Russia, was attended by 27 Russian experts from 14 different Russian organizations, seven European experts from six different organizations, and 14 V. S. experts from seven different organizations. The ARW was conducted at the State Education Center (SEC), a former Minatom nuc1ear training center in St. Petersburg. Thirty-three technical presentations were made using simultaneous translations. These presentations are reprinted in this volume as a formal ARW Proceedings in the NATO Science Series. The representative technical papers contained here cover nuc1ear material safety topics on the storage and disposition of excess plutonium and high enriched uranium (HEU) fissile materials, inc1uding vitrification, mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication, plutonium ceramics, reprocessing, geologic disposal, transportation, and Russian regulatory processes. This AR W completed discussions by experts of the nuc1ear materials safety topics that were not covered in the previous, companion ARW on Nuc1ear Materials Safety held in Amarillo, Texas, in March 1997. These two workshops, when viewed together as a set, have addressed most nuc1ear material aspects of the storage and disposition operations required for excess HEV and plutonium (see Fig. 1, Opening Remarks).

• Plutonium
• ceramic
• ceramics
• management
• safety
• uranium

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

  Leslie J. Jardine

• V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

  Mikhail M. Moshkov

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