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Criticality accident alarm system

Description: The American National Standard ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, Criticality Accident Alarm System provides guidance for the establishment and maintenance of an alarm system to initiate personnel evacuation in the event of inadvertent criticality. In addition to identifying the physical features of the components of the system, the characteristics of accidents of concern are carefully delineated. Unfortunately, this ANSI Standard has led to considerable confusion in interpretation, and there is evidence that … more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Malenfant, R.E.
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An in-cell alpha detection system for radioisotope component assembly operations

Description: A remotely operated alpha detection system is being developed for use at the Radioisotope Power Systems Facility at the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site. It will be used in hot cells being constructed to assemble components of Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators for space power applications. The in-cell detection equipment will survey radiological swipe samples to determine smearable surface contamination levels on radioisotope fuel, fueled components, and hot-cell work areas. This sys… more
Date: September 1, 1991
Creator: Carteret, B.A. (Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)) & Goles, R.W. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States))
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Southern state radiological emergency preparedness and response agencies

Description: This Report provides information on the state agencies assigned to radioactive materials transportation incidents in 16 Southern States Energy Board member states. For each, the report lists the agencies with primary authority for preparedness and response, their responsibilities and personnel within the agencies who can offer additional information on their radioactive materials transportation programs. The report also lists each state's emergency team members and its laboratory and analytical… more
Date: November 1, 1988
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Systems to prevent nuclear material from re-entering the biosphere

Description: Nuclear systems are key to the success of many space missions as we have witness in the Apollo science packages, Viking Mars landers, and Pioneer and Voyager planetary exploration missions. There is always a concern that nuclear materials will re-enter the biosphere from a mission abort. In fact, this has happened for radioisotope and reactor power systems. Until now, the emphasize has been an incorporating on-board means to protect the biosphere. With possible increased use of nuclear power an… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Buden, D. (EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)); Angelo, J.A. Jr. (Science Applications International Corp., Melbourne, FL (United States)) & Lapin, S. (POD Associates, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (United States))
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Galileo light-weight radioisotope heater units design and safety analysis

Description: The Light-Weight Radioisotope Heater Unit (LWRHU) provides thermal energy to temperature sensitive components aboard the orbiter/probe of the Galileo Spacecraft during its multiyear interplanetary mission. Heat is derived from the radioisotopic decay of 238-plutonium. A power of 0.56 watts/gram of radioisotope, a half-life of 88 years, and no moving parts permitted a robust, long-lived, compact heat source design. A single l-w design provided small thermal increments, with options in the number… more
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Johnson, E.W. (EG and G Mound Applied Technologies, Miamisburg, OH (USA)) & Zocher, R.W. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA))
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Radioluminescent (RL) airfield lighting system program

Description: In 1980, the US Air Force Engineering and Services Center (AFESC) at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, requested that the Radioisotope Technology Group of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) develop large-scale, tritium-powered, radioluminescent (RL) airfield lighting systems. The RL lighting systems possess the advantages of being portable, requiring no electrical power source, having a long shelf life, and being unaffected by environmental extremes. These characteristics make the RL system we… more
Date: September 1, 1990
Creator: Tompkins, J. A.; Haff, K. W. & Schultz, F. J.
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