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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
P. Santi, M. Miller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 160 | Number 2 | October 2008 | Pages 190-199
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-85
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The prompt neutron emission probability distributions and average values (P and <>, respectively) for nuclei that decay via spontaneous fission have been reevaluated to determine if any significant gaps in the fundamental nuclear data exist that could affect the development of the safeguard approach for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. The reevaluation incorporated measurements that have been performed over the past two decades and has yielded revised prompt <> consensus values for 256Fm of 3.848 ± 0.027 and for 252No of 4.25 ± 0.25. Updated consensus P values were also created for 244,248Cm, 252Cf, 254,256Fm, and 252No.