020013
Criticality Safety Retraining for Managers and Engineers:
Course 020013

Course Summary:
The Criticality Safety Retraining for Managers and Engineers course covers criticality accidents and lessons learned. The course retrain frequency is 24 months.

The following topics are reviewed as necessary:

Definition of fission, fissile material, fissionable material, multiplication factor, critical, subcritical, supercritical, critical mass, minimum critical mass, reflection, moderation, enrichment, and interaction
List of the fissile and fissionable materials controlled under the criticality safety program
Neutron interactions and their importance in criticality safety
Criticality characteristics
Factors that affect criticality safety
Control parameters and double contingency principle
Criticality prevention policy and procedures
Stop work order requirements
Requirements for, and relationships between criticality safety evaluation, criticality prevention specification, and criticality safety postings
Fissionable material facilities, inventory control and inspections
Criticality controls and design criteria
Criticality alarm systems
Quick sort purpose and procedure
Personal nuclear accident dosimetry
Emergency procedures and responses
Criticality recovery actions

Target Audience:
This course is for managers and engineering personnel whose work activities involve the material handling, direct supervision, auditing, or engineering functions associated with fissionable material.

Course Prerequisites:
There are no course prerequisites

Course Recommendation:
Criticality Safety Initial Training for Managers & Engineers, Course 020012
Radiological Worker II Training, Course 020001
Radiological Worker II Retraining, Course 020003

Course Evaluation:
An examination will be used to measure student mastery of the training objectives.

The student must attain a score of 80 percent or higher on the written examination for successful course completion.

Course Length:
4 hours

Course Frequency:
4 times each quarter and upon request