020010
Criticality Safety Initial Training for Fissionable Material Handlers:
Course 020010
Course Summary: The Criticality Safety Initial Training for Fissionable Material Handlers consists of training on the controlling of neutrons to prevent accidental criticalities. In addition, criticality accidents, fission process, and the nuclear criticality safety manual are reviewed. This course covers the requirements and recommended subjects specified in the American Nuclear Society Standard for Nuclear Criticality Safety Training. The course retrain frequency course is 24 months.
The following topics are covered:
Definition of fission, fissile material, fissionable material, multiplication factor, critical, subcritical, supercritical, critical mass, minimum critical mass, reflection, moderation, enrichment, and interaction
List of the fissile and fissionable materials controlled under the criticality safety program
Neutron interactions and their importance in criticality safety
Criticality characteristics
Factors that affect criticality safety
Double contingency principle
Criticality prevention policy and procedures
Stop work order requirements
Requirements for, and relationships between criticality safety evaluation, criticality prevention specification, and criticality safety postings
Fissionable material facilities
Criticality controls and design criteria
Criticality alarm systems
Quick sort purpose and procedure
Personal nuclear accident dosimetry
Emergency procedures and responses
Criticality recovery actions
Target Audience: This course is for personnel whose work activities involve material handling, direct supervision, or engineering functions associated with fissionable material.
Course Prerequisites: Radiological Worker II Initial Training, Course 020001
Course Evaluation: An examination will be used to measure student mastery of the training objectives.
The student must attain a score of 80 percent or higher for successful course completion.
Course Length: 8 hours
Course Frequency: 2 times each quarter and upon request
