American National Standard

Download or read book American National Standard written by American Nuclear Society. Standards Committee Working Group ANS-8.10 and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This standard is applicable to operations outside of nuclear reactors with 235U, 233U, 239Pu, and other fissionalble materials in which shielding and confinement are provided for protection of personnel and the public. Criteria are provided that may be used for criticality safety controls under these conditions. This standard does not apply to the assembly of these materials under controlled conditions, such as in critical experiments. This standard does not include the details of administrative procedures for control, which are considered to be management prerogatives, details regarding the design of processes and equipment, or descriptions of instrumentation for process control.