Re: Characteristics of criticality accidents

["Erik F. Shores" <eshores@lanl.gov>]

At 06:08 AM 02/25/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>According to the previous information here at Radsafers, a total of about 60
>criticality accidents have occurred. The one in Tokaimura was characterized
>by a "pseudo-stability" state and lasted for more than about 10 hours. Other
>criticality accidents may have involved pulsed states. Does any one have an
>overview of the number of criticality accidents of these different
>sub-categories?
>
>Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers@hotmail.com

Bjorn,

To further add to the list provided by Enrico, you may also want to check out:

http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00314607.pdf

which is the LANL library link to the report LA-3611 "Review of Criticality 
Accidents" by W.R. Stratton. Although published in 1967, a revised edition 
by David R. Smith was published in 1989. That report number is DOE/NCT-04 
and the document states that the report is available from the "Nuclear 
Criticality Information System" at Livermore.

Regards,
Erik
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Erik F. Shores
Los Alamos National Laboratory
ESH-12, Radiological Engineering Team
Mailto:eshores@lanl.gov
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