1. American Nuclear Society Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Steve Bowman Nov. 16, 2005 Washington, D.C.

2. NCSD Mission NCSD focuses on the prevention of criticality accidents in areas outside of nuclear reactors –Promote the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors –Promote the arts and sciences of nuclear criticality safety –Provide exchange of technical information among NCS professionals through development of standards evolution of training methods and materials presentation of technical data and procedures creation of specialty publications

3. NCSD Executive Committee Chair: Steve Bowman, Oak Ridge National Lab. Vice Chair: Kevin Kimball, NISYS Corp. Secretary: Davis Reed, Oak Ridge National Lab. Treasurer: David Hayes, Los Alamos National Lab. Executive Committee members –Jim Gulliford (UK), Dennis Mennerdahl (Sweden), Fitz Trumble (WSMS), 2006 –Adolf Garcia (DOE), Maria LeTellier (CSE), Randy Shackelford (NFS), 2007 –Larry Berg (NRC), Tom Burns (MPR), Chuck Harmon (LANL), 2008 BOD Liaison: Marvin Fertel

4. NCSD Membership Trends

5. Professional Demographics

6. Industrial Demographics

7. NCSD Budget

8. NCSD Planning Strategic and Succession Plans –One-year and five-year plans modeled after current ANS strategic plan

9. NCSD Contributions to ANS ANS Position Statements / White Papers –Fact Sheet about criticality accidents for public/news media, white papers on good NCS practices Other Professional Societies –EFCOG (SAWG) –International collaborations, including initiative for information exchange with Chinese Nuclear Society in progress Non-Meeting Publication efforts are primarily in ANSI/ANS Standards

10. Importance of Standards These are a vital part of the information sharing that has led to fewer criticality accidents Continuing dialogue among subject matter experts Accepted by DOE and NRC De facto rules for this discipline Provide value to industry – leads to industry participation Involves many volunteers Opportunities for young members

11. ANSI/ANS-8.1, Operations with Fissionable Materials Outside Reactors. ANSI/ANS-8.3, Criticality Accident Alarm System ANSI/ANS-8.5, Borosilicate-Glass Raschig Rings ANSI/ANS-8.6, In-Situ Measurements for Criticality Safety ANSI/ANS-8.7, Storage of Fissile Materials. ANSI/ANS-8.10, Safety controls With Shielding and Confinement ANSI/ANS-8.12, Plutonium-Uranium Fuel Mixtures Criticality Safety Standards

12. ANSI/ANS-8.14, Soluble Neutron Absorbers ANSI/ANS-8.15, Special Actinide Elements ANSI/ANS-8.17, Handling, Storage and Transportation of LWR Fuel Outside Reactors ANSI/ANS-8.19, Administrative Practices ANSI/ANS-8.20, Nuclear Criticality Safety Training ANSI/ANS-8.21, Fixed Neutron Absorbers ANSI/ANS-8.22, Limiting and Controlling Moderators ANSI/ANS-8.23, Emergency Planning and Response

13. Criticality Safety Proposed Standards ANSI/ANS-8.24, Validation of Calculational Methods ANSI/ANS-8.25, Criticality Safety Postings ANSI/ANS-8.26, Criticality Safety Engineer Training and Qualification (submitted to N-16) ANSI/ANS-8.27, Burnup Credit

14. NCSD Services to Membership Professional Development Scholarships Peer Recognition/Awards Student Support Standards

15. Professional Development Professional development workshops –Issue: high costs lead to lower attendance, particularly of young members Continuing education certificates to attendees of NCSD technical sessions ANSI/ANS-8.26 proposed national standard on criticality safety engineer (CSE) training and qualification progress nearing completion Special committee will evaluate formal CSE "Certificate of Completion" pursuant to 8.26.

16. NCSD Meeting Participation Average 5-6 sessions at national meeting Topical meetings every 2 years Tremendously successful 2005 topical –170 attendees, $37K profit –Strong international attendance –Still had 5 sessions at this meeting only 2 months later Issue: Room assignments (need larger room) –Presented problem to PDC/NPC –Requested larger room based on historical attendance –More can still be done on this issue

17. Topical Meetings NCSD 2001 Embedded Topical, Reno, NV International Criticality Nuclear Conference (ICNC) 2003, Japan NCSD 2005 Topical, Sept. 2005, Knoxville, TN – 75 papers and 170 attendees ICNC 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia NCSD 2009 Topical - TBA

18. NCSD Metrics 2004 Division Meetings Division Governance Division Contributions to Society Division Services to Membership National Meeting Participation 2004: 2sessions/2 tutorials/Forum/6 sessions/1 tutorial Succession Planning None submitted ANS Position Statements Nuc Crit Accidents in Work Place (fact sheet) (reaffirm by 2005) Professional Development Burnup Credit tutorial at Jun 02 Sensitivity/Uncertainty Jun 04 NDA Tutorial at Nov 04 Class I Class II Topicals +/- 25% attendance (145/150) NCS Topical – Nov 01 NCS Topical – Sept 05 Membership Trends 749/748 members -0.1% change 2004 Participation with Outside Professional Societies EFCOG Workshop at Nov. 2002 Scholarships NCSD does not support a Scholarship Class III Topicals Nov 01 Nuc Crit Safety Topical Sept 05 Nuc Crit Safety Topical Communications 1 newsletter in 2004 website updated in 2004 Society Leadership June 04: 54% Exec Comm Oct 04 69% Exec Comm Nov 04: 85% Exec Comm Both PDC & All NPC Presented to BOD June 2004 Peer Recognition/ Awards NCSD provides Technical Excellence, Distinguished Services awards annually Division Planning Strategic Plan to be submitted to PDC Chair in June 05 Non-Meeting Publications Standards: ANS 8.5 & 8.12 reaffirmed in 2002 ANS 8.3 reaffirmed 2003 Student Support 2004/ 1 National Mtg &2004 Student Conf

19. Summary Very successful topical meeting in September Diverse membership, good international participation Strong standards committees Scholarship plan in progress Strong support for young members

20. NCSD Requests to BOD Larger room for governance meetings Increased diligence by NPC to assure adequate room size for technical sessions based on historical attendance figures Lower cost for professional development workshops – increase attendance, particularly young members