An updated nuclear criticality slide rule
Description
This Volume 2 contains the functional version of the updated nuclear criticality slide rule (more accurately, sliding graphs) that is referenced in An Updated Nuclear Criticality Slide Rule: Technical Basis, NUREG/CR-6504, Vol. 1 (ORNL/TM-13322/V1). This functional slide rule provides a readily usable open-quotes in-handclose quotes method for estimating pertinent nuclear criticality accident information from sliding graphs, thereby permitting (1) the rapid estimation of pertinent criticality accident information without laborious or sophisticated calculations in a nuclear criticality emergency situation, (2) the appraisal of potential fission yields and external personnel radiation exposures for facility safety analyses, and (3) a technical basis for emergency preparedness and training programs at nonreactor nuclear facilities. The slide rule permits the estimation of neutron and gamma dose rates and integrated doses based upon estimated fission yields, distance from the fission source, and time-after criticality accidents for five different critical systems. Another sliding graph permits the estimation of critical solution fission yields based upon fissile material concentration, critical vessel geometry, and solution addition rate. Another graph provides neutron and gamma dose-reduction factors for water, steel, and concrete. Graphs from historic documents are provided as references for estimating critical parameters of various fissile material systems. Conversion factors for various English and metric units are provided for quick reference
Availability note (English)
Available from INIS in electronic form; ALSO AVAILABLE FROM OSTI AS TI98004974; NTIS; GPO
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 38 p.
- Report number
- NUREG/CR--6504-Vol.2
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 29041593
- Subject category
- S42: ENGINEERING;
- Descriptors DEI
- CRITICAL MASS; CRITICALITY; DISTANCE; MOISTURE; NUCLEAR REACTION YIELD; URANIUM 235; URANIUM OXIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CHALCOGENIDES; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; YIELDS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract AC05-96OR22464
- Funding organization
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
- Secondary number(s)
- ORNL/TM--13322-Vol.2