Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board

F. Wayne Jennings, consultant Herbert J. Kouts, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (retired)... 

The SNL Laboratory Standards Department maintains a file of previous assessments and analyses of compliance with DOE order requirements. This file documents the status of HCF compliance and identifies the order expert, the facility expert, and the implementing documentation for each requirement. The file is being maintained in response to the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board recommendations. See Section 17.3.3.3 for more discussion about the role of the Laboratory Standards Department in providing compliance assurance information and supporL... 

Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board (DNFSB).661... 

In 1988, Congress created the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board (DNFSB). The DNFSB was given oversight authority over DOE defense-related nuclear facilities. 

Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board, Washington, DC. http //dnfsb.gov/pub.docs/dnfsb/rec. html... 

External independent oversight has been provided by the Advisory Committee for Nuclear Facility Safety (ACNFS) and the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board (DNFSB). This SER is based on a review of the Level 1, Rev. 0, report, the results of reviews performed to date, and several related communications as noted. 

The staff performed a confirmatory analysis addressing these two concerns and concluded that the Quadrex analysis was adequate. In view of the low safety factors, however, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) concluded that a more complete set of analyses should be performed. 

WSRC-SRL-MAT-910032, Rev. 1, "Scope of K-Reactor Tank Ultrasonic/Eddy Current Inspection Adequacy for Restart-Response to Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Inquiry", March 20, 1991. 

Description of Operation in a Changing Defense Nuclear Facility Complex," DNFSB 92-5, Defense Nuclear FaciliQr Safety Board, Washington, DC, August 17,1992. 

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