Criticality Safety Services
With over 20 years’ experience, UKAEA provides criticality safety services for a range of application areas and for numerous organisations involved with production, reprocessing, storage, transport, decommissioning, power production and regulatory issues.
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Capabilities
Services are wide-ranging but broadly include criticality assessment, peer review, compliance inspections, training and the provision of independent advice.
Specific areas include:
- Criticality hazard identification and criticality safety assessment associated with the design, operation and decommissioning of facilities by use of criticality data handbooks and hand methods of calculation.
- Criticality compliance inspections and auditing, including in-depth criticality safety system reviews.
- Criticality safety awareness training, both within a classroom environment and via one-to-one sessions. Topics include the fundamentals of criticality safety, past criticality accidents, assessment methods and methods of criticality control.
- Peer review of criticality safety assessments and Quality Assurance checking for operational, transport and decommissioning applications.
- The production of Criticality Incident Detection and Alarm System (CIDAS) Omission Cases.
- Development of criticality safety assessment procedures and methodologies, both for facility operation and decommissioning phases.
- The provision of transport criticality safety assessments in support of IAEA Transport Regulations submissions and on-site transport applications.
- The provision of independent criticality safety advice to Safety Working Parties, Nuclear Safety Committees and nationally recognised Working Parties.
- The provision of criticality safety advice associated with the design and operation of fissile material waste stores and the proposed national waste repository.
- The undertaking of specialist facility fissile material surveys; for example, the identification of potential sources of fissile material accumulation in support of decommissioning proposals.
How you benefit
Good criticality management in design and operations gives you the assurance of criticality safety, while reducing inefficiencies throughout your processes.
