EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2017)

Update of the Nuclear Criticality Slide Rule for the Emergency Response to a Nuclear Criticality Accident

  • Duluc Matthieu,
  • Bardelay Aurélie,
  • Celik Cihangir,
  • Heinrichs Dave,
  • Hopper Calvin,
  • Jones Richard,
  • Kim Soon,
  • Miller Thomas,
  • Troisne Marc,
  • Wilson Chris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715305015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 153
p. 05015

Abstract

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AWE (UK), IRSN (France), LLNL (USA) and ORNL (USA) began a long term collaboration effort in 2015 to update the nuclear criticality Slide Rule for the emergency response to a nuclear criticality accident. This document, published almost 20 years ago, gives order of magnitude estimates of key parameters, such as number of fissions and doses (neutron and gamma), useful for emergency response teams and public authorities. This paper will present, firstly the motivation and the long term objectives for this update, then the overview of the initial configurations for updated calculations and preliminary results obtained with modern 3D codes.