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Nuclear power plant security assessment technical manual. (open access)

Nuclear power plant security assessment technical manual.

This report (Nuclear Power Plant Security Assessment Technical Manual) is a revision to NUREG/CR-1345 (Nuclear Power Plant Design Concepts for Sabotage Protection) that was published in January 1981. It provides conceptual and specific technical guidance for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission nuclear power plant design certification and combined operating license applicants as they: (1) develop the layout of a facility (i.e., how buildings are arranged on the site property and how they are arranged internally) to enhance protection against sabotage and facilitate the use of physical security features; (2) design the physical protection system to be used at the facility; and (3) analyze the effectiveness of the PPS against the design basis threat. It should be used as a technical manual in conjunction with the 'Nuclear Power Plant Security Assessment Format and Content Guide'. The opportunity to optimize physical protection in the design of a nuclear power plant is obtained when an applicant utilizes both documents when performing a security assessment. This document provides a set of best practices that incorporates knowledge gained from more than 30 years of physical protection system design and evaluation activities at Sandia National Laboratories and insights derived from U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission technical staff into …
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: O'Connor, Sharon L.; Whitehead, Donnie Wayne & Potter, Claude S., III
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanford External Dosimetry Technical Basis Manual PNL-MA-842 (open access)

Hanford External Dosimetry Technical Basis Manual PNL-MA-842

The Hanford External Dosimetry Technical Basis Manual PNL-MA-842 documents the design and implementation of the external dosimetry system used at Hanford. The manual describes the dosimeter design, processing protocols, dose calculation methodology, radiation fields encountered, dosimeter response characteristics, limitations of dosimeter design under field conditions, and makes recommendations for effective use of the dosimeters in the field. The manual describes the technical basis for the dosimetry system in a manner intended to help ensure defensibility of the dose of record at Hanford and to demonstrate compliance with 10 CFR 835, DOELAP, DOE-RL, ORP, PNSO, and Hanford contractor requirements. The dosimetry system is operated by PNNL’s Hanford External Dosimetry Program (HEDP) which provides dosimetry services to all Hanford contractors. The primary users of this manual are DOE and DOE contractors at Hanford using the dosimetry services of PNNL. Development and maintenance of this manual is funded directly by DOE and DOE contractors. Its contents have been reviewed and approved by DOE and DOE contractors at Hanford through the Hanford Personnel Dosimetry Advisory Committee (HPDAC) which is chartered and chaired by DOE-RL and serves as means of coordinating dosimetry practices across contractors at Hanford. This manual was established in 1996. Since inception, …
Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Rathbone, Bruce A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The RadAssessor manual (open access)

The RadAssessor manual

THIS manual will describe the functions and capabilities that are available from the RadAssessor database and will demonstrate how to retrieve and view its information. You’ll learn how to start the database application, how to log in, how to use the common commands, and how to use the online help if you have a question or need extra guidance. RadAssessor can be viewed from any standard web browser. Therefore, you will not need to install any special software before using RadAssessor.
Date: February 1, 2007
Creator: Seitz, Sharon L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Response Equipment and Related Training: Airborne Radiological Computer System (Model II) (open access)

Emergency Response Equipment and Related Training: Airborne Radiological Computer System (Model II)

The materials included in the Airborne Radiological Computer System, Model-II (ARCS-II) were assembled with several considerations in mind. First, the system was designed to measure and record the airborne gamma radiation levels and the corresponding latitude and longitude coordinates, and to provide a first overview look of the extent and severity of an accident's impact. Second, the portable system had to be light enough and durable enough that it could be mounted in an aircraft, ground vehicle, or watercraft. Third, the system must control the collection and storage of the data, as well as provide a real-time display of the data collection results to the operator. The notebook computer and color graphics printer components of the system would only be used for analyzing and plotting the data. In essence, the provided equipment is composed of an acquisition system and an analysis system. The data can be transferred from the acquisition system to the analysis system at the end of the data collection or at some other agreeable time.
Date: February 28, 2007
Creator: Colton, David P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FastBit Reference Manual (open access)

FastBit Reference Manual

An index in a database system is a data structure that utilizes redundant information about the base data to speed up common searching and retrieval operations. Most commonly used indexes are variants of B-trees, such as B+-tree and B*-tree. FastBit implements a set of alternative indexes call compressed bitmap indexes. Compared with B-tree variants, these indexes provide very efficient searching and retrieval operations by sacrificing the efficiency of updating the indexes after the modification of an individual record. In addition to the well-known strengths of bitmap indexes, FastBit has a special strength stemming from the bitmap compression scheme used. The compression method is called the Word-Aligned Hybrid (WAH) code. It reduces the bitmap indexes to reasonable sizes and at the same time allows very efficient bitwise logical operations directly on the compressed bitmaps. Compared with the well-known compression methods such as LZ77 and Byte-aligned Bitmap code (BBC), WAH sacrifices some space efficiency for a significant improvement in operational efficiency. Since the bitwise logical operations are the most important operations needed to answer queries, using WAH compression has been shown to answer queries significantly faster than using other compression schemes. Theoretical analyses showed that WAH compressed bitmap indexes are optimal for …
Date: August 2, 2007
Creator: Wu, Kesheng
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CH Packaging Operations Manual (open access)

CH Packaging Operations Manual

Introduction - This procedure provides instructions forassembling the following CH packaging payload: Drum payload assembly Standard Waste Box (SWB) assembly Ten-Drum Overpack (TDOP)
Date: May 15, 2007
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CH Packaging Operations Manual (open access)

CH Packaging Operations Manual

This procedure provides instructions forassembling the following CH packaging payload: Drum payload assembly Standard Waste Box (SWB) assembly Ten-Drum Overpack (TDOP)
Date: August 22, 2007
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CH Packaging Operations Manual (open access)

CH Packaging Operations Manual

This procedure provides instructions forassembling the following CH packaging payload: Drum payload assembly Standard Waste Box (SWB) assembly Ten-Drum Overpack (TDOP)
Date: November 29, 2007
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ISSUES MANAGEMENT PROGRAM MANUAL (open access)

ISSUES MANAGEMENT PROGRAM MANUAL

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Issues Management Program encompasses the continuous monitoring of work programs, performance and safety to promptly identify issues to determine their risk and significance, their causes, and to identify and effectively implement corrective actions to ensure successful resolution and prevent the same or similar problems from occurring. This document describes the LBNL Issues Management Program and prescribes the process for issues identification, tracking, resolution, closure, validation, and effectiveness of corrective actions. Issues that are governed by this program include program and performance deficiencies or nonconformances that may be identified through employee discovery, internal or external oversight assessment findings, suggested process improvements and associated actions that require formal corrective action. Issues may also be identified in and/or may result in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports, Price Anderson Amendment Act (PAAA) reports, Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS) reports, Accident Investigation reports, assessment reports, and External Oversight reports. The scope of these issues may include issues of both high and low significance as well as adverse conditions that meet the reporting requirements of the University of California (UC) Assurance Plan for LBNL or other reporting entities (e.g., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy). Issues that …
Date: June 27, 2007
Creator: Gravois, Melanie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NUCLEAR SCIENCE REFERENCES CODING MANUAL (open access)

NUCLEAR SCIENCE REFERENCES CODING MANUAL

None
Date: May 1, 2007
Creator: Winchell, D. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Oversight Manual (open access)

Congressional Oversight Manual

This report provides information about the Congressional Oversight Manual. Congressional Oversight of the executive is designed to fulfill a number of purposes like ensuring executive compliance with legislative intent etc.
Date: May 1, 2007
Creator: Kaiser, Frederick M.; Oleszek, Walter J.; Tatelman, Todd B.; Halstead, T. J. & Rosenberg, Morton
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Oversight Manual (open access)

Congressional Oversight Manual

This report provides information about the Congressional Oversight Manual. Congressional Oversight of the executive is designed to fulfill a number of purposes like ensuring executive compliance with legislative intent etc.
Date: January 3, 2007
Creator: Kaiser, Frederick M.; Oleszek, Walter J.; Tatelman, Todd B.; Halstead, T. J. & Rosenberg, Morton
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS PROGRAM MANUAL (open access)

ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS PROGRAM MANUAL

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) identifies the cause of an adverse condition that, if corrected, will preclude recurrence or greatly reduce the probability of recurrence of the same or similar adverse conditions and thereby protect the health and safety of the public, the workers, and the environment. This procedure sets forth the requirements for management determination and the selection of RCA methods and implementation of RCAs that are a result of significant findings from Price-Anderson Amendments Act (PAAA) violations, occurrences/events, Significant Adverse Conditions, and external oversight Corrective Action Requests (CARs) generated by the Office of Enforcement (PAAA headquarters), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other oversight entities against Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Performance of an RCA may result in the identification of issues that should be reported in accordance with the Issues Management Program Manual.
Date: May 2, 2007
Creator: Gravois, Melanie C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
DATA MONITORING AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM MANUAL (open access)

DATA MONITORING AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM MANUAL

This procedure provides guidelines and techniques for analyzing and trending data using statistical methods for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). This procedure outlines the steps used in data analysis and trending. It includes guidelines for performing data analysis and for monitoring (or controlling) processes using performance indicators. This procedure is used when trending and analyzing item characteristics and reliability, process implementation, and other quality-related information to identify items, services, activities, and processes needing improvement, in accordance with 10 CFR Part 830, Subpart A, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 414.1C, and University of California (UC) Assurance Plan for LBNL. Trend codes, outlined in Attachment 4, are assigned to issues at the time of initiation and entry into the Corrective Action Tracking System (CATS) database in accordance with LBNL/PUB-5519 (1), Issues Management Program Manual. Throughout this procedure, the term performance is used to encompass all aspects of performance including quality, timeliness, efficiency, effectiveness, and reliability. Data analysis tools are appropriate whenever quantitative information describing the performance of an item, service, or process can be obtained.
Date: July 6, 2007
Creator: Gravois, Melanie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NUCLEAR SCIENCE REFERENCES CODING MANUAL (open access)

NUCLEAR SCIENCE REFERENCES CODING MANUAL

This manual is intended as a guide for Nuclear Science References (NSR) compilers. The basic conventions followed at the National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC), which are compatible with the maintenance and updating of and retrieval from the Nuclear Science References (NSR) file, are outlined. The NSR database originated at the Nuclear Data Project (NDP) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of a project for systematic evaluation of nuclear structure data.1 Each entry in this computer file corresponds to a bibliographic reference that is uniquely identified by a Keynumber and is describable by a Topic and Keywords. It has been used since 1969 to produce bibliographic citations for evaluations published in Nuclear Data Sheets. Periodic additions to the file were published as the ''Recent References'' issues of Nuclear Data Sheets prior to 2005. In October 1980, the maintenance and updating of the NSR file became the responsibility of the NNDC at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The basic structure and contents of the NSR file remained unchanged during the transfer. In Chapter 2, the elements of the NSR file such as the valid record identifiers, record contents, and text fields are enumerated. Relevant comments regarding a new entry into the NSR file …
Date: April 1, 2007
Creator: Winchell, D. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shake 'n Plate Manual Plating Tool (open access)

Shake 'n Plate Manual Plating Tool

None
Date: June 26, 2007
Creator: Naca, Christine
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
RADSRC/Monte Carlo Code Interface Manual (open access)

RADSRC/Monte Carlo Code Interface Manual

RADSRC is a library for calculating gamma ray distributions. An initial material specification is aged and the daughter isotopes calculated to create the complete spectrum. RADSRC can be linked into, initialized, and called from other programs. This document specifies how to do this in GEANT4, COG and MCNP(X).
Date: March 23, 2007
Creator: Hiller, L; Gronberg, J; Gosnell, T & Wright, D M
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES PROGRAM MANUAL (open access)

LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES PROGRAM MANUAL

This document provides requirements and guidelines for conducting a Lessons Learned and Best Practices Program within Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to ensure ongoing improvement of safety and reliability, prevent the recurrence of significant adverse events/trends, and determine implementation strategies that will help LBNL successfully meet the missions and goals set forth by the Department of Energy (DOE).
Date: May 24, 2007
Creator: Gravois, Melanie C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
User's Manual for RESRAD-OFFSITE Version 2. (open access)

User's Manual for RESRAD-OFFSITE Version 2.

The RESRAD-OFFSITE code is an extension of the RESRAD (onsite) code, which has been widely used for calculating doses and risks from exposure to radioactively contaminated soils. The development of RESRAD-OFFSITE started more than 10 years ago, but new models and methodologies have been developed, tested, and incorporated since then. Some of the new models have been benchmarked against other independently developed (international) models. The databases used have also expanded to include all the radionuclides (more than 830) contained in the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) 38 database. This manual provides detailed information on the design and application of the RESRAD-OFFSITE code. It describes in detail the new models used in the code, such as the three-dimensional dispersion groundwater flow and radionuclide transport model, the Gaussian plume model for atmospheric dispersion, and the deposition model used to estimate the accumulation of radionuclides in offsite locations and in foods. Potential exposure pathways and exposure scenarios that can be modeled by the RESRAD-OFFSITE code are also discussed. A user's guide is included in Appendix A of this manual. The default parameter values and parameter distributions are presented in Appendix B, along with a discussion on the statistical distributions for probabilistic analysis. …
Date: September 5, 2007
Creator: Yu, C.; Gnanapragasam, E.; Biwer, B. M.; Kamboj, S.; Cheng, J. J.; Klett, T. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Portable Digital Radiography and Computed Tomography Manual (open access)

Portable Digital Radiography and Computed Tomography Manual

This user manual describes the function and use of the portable digital radiography and computed tomography (DRCT) scanner. The manual gives a general overview of x-ray imaging systems along with a description of the DRCT system. An inventory of the all the system components, organized by shipping container, is also included. In addition, detailed, step-by-step procedures are provided for all of the exercises necessary for a novice user to successfully collect digital radiographs and tomographic images of an object, including instructions on system assembly and detector calibration and system alignment. There is also a short section covering the limited system care and maintenance needs. Descriptions of the included software packages, the DRCT Digital Imager used for system operation, and the DRCT Image Processing Interface used for image viewing and tomographic data reconstruction are given in the appendixes. The appendixes also include a cheat sheet for more experienced users, a listing of known system problems and how to mitigate them, and an inventory check-off sheet suitable for copying and including with the machine for shipment purposes.
Date: November 1, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aria 1.5 : user manual. (open access)

Aria 1.5 : user manual.

Aria is a Galerkin finite element based program for solving coupled-physics problems described by systems of PDEs and is capable of solving nonlinear, implicit, transient and direct-to-steady state problems in two and three dimensions on parallel architectures. The suite of physics currently supported by Aria includes the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, energy transport equation, species transport equations, nonlinear elastic solid mechanics, and electrostatics as well as generalized scalar, vector and tensor transport equations. Additionally, Aria includes support for arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) and level set based free and moving boundary tracking. Coupled physics problems are solved in several ways including fully-coupled Newton's method with analytic or numerical sensitivities, fully-coupled Newton-Krylov methods, fully-coupled Picard's method, and a loosely-coupled nonlinear iteration about subsets of the system that are solved using combinations of the aforementioned methods. Error estimation, uniform and dynamic h-adaptivity and dynamic load balancing are some of Aria's more advanced capabilities. Aria is based on the Sierra Framework.
Date: April 1, 2007
Creator: Hopkins, Matthew Morgan; Moffat, Harry K.; Noble, David R.; Notz, Patrick K. & Subia, Samuel Ramirez
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minerva User Manual Version 1.0 (open access)

Minerva User Manual Version 1.0

MINERVA (Modality-Inclusive Environment for Radiotherapeutic Variable Analysis) is a Java-based patient-centric radiation treatment planning system (RTPS) for computational dosimetry and treatment planning in emerging areas of radiotherapy for cancer and other diseases. MINERVA was primarily developed at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Montana State University (MSU). MINERVA allows the radiotherapist to make side-by-side comparison of plans for multiple treatment modalities with a common anatomical basis for the computational geometry, calculate doses for combinations of different radiotherapy modalities, and perform dose analysis and reporting functions. This provides the therapist with a consistent basis for selecting the modality or combination of modalities to use for treatment of the patient. MINERVA employs an integrated, lightweight plug-in architecture to accommodate multi-modal treatment planning using standard interface components. The MINERVA design facilitates integration of improved or emerging treatment planning technologies. MINERVA consists of the basic radiation treatment planning software modules managed by a consistent patient interface for developing multi-modal radiotherapy patient treatment plans. One of MINERVA's main functions is to provide a graphical environment for constructing and displaying uniform volume-element-based solid models derived from medical images. These solid models form the geometric basis of the target areas for the radiation transport model.
Date: March 1, 2007
Creator: Cogliati, J.J.; Milvich, M. L.; Wessol, D. E. & Wemple, C. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Next Generation Nuclear Plant System Requirements Manual (open access)

Next Generation Nuclear Plant System Requirements Manual

System Requirements Manual for the NGNP Project
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: Vandel, Doug
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TDCJ - CJAD Data Manual (open access)

TDCJ - CJAD Data Manual

Manual detailing the methods for monitoring and evaluating the procedures of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice - Community Justice Assistance Division in compliance with legislative oversight.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History