020110
Criticality Safety Retraining for Fissile Material Handlers:
Course 020110

Course Summary:
The Criticality Safety Retraining for fissile material handlers 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
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
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 personnel whose work activities involve material handling, direct supervision, auditing, or engineering functions associated with fissionable material.

Course Prerequisites:
Criticality Safety Initial Training for Fissile Material Handlers, Course 020010
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