Criticality safety basics, a study guide

This document is a self-study and classroom guide, for criticality safety of activities with fissile materials outside nuclear reactors. This guide provides a basic overview of criticality safety and criticality accident prevention methods divided into three parts: theory, application, and history. Except for topic emphasis, theory and history information is general, while application information is specific to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL). Information presented here should be useful to personnel who must know criticality safety basics to perform their assignments safely or to design critically safe equipment or operations. However, the guide's primary target audience is fissile material handler candidates.. Authors: Putman, V L [Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company]. DOE Contract: AC07-94ID13223. Subjects: 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 42 ENGINEERING; CRITICALITY; CRITICALITY ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CRITICALITY SAFETY; FISSILE MATERIAL HANDLER; FISSILE MATERIALS; MATERIALS HANDLING; Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); RADIATION ACCIDENTS; SAFETY ANALYSIS