U.S. Department of Energy system safety

Blackmane, H. S., D. I. Gertman, and L. N. Haney (Sept. 1985). The Process of Task Analysis (SSDC-31), U.S. Department of Energy, System Safety Development Center, EG G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls. 

U.S. Department of Energy, DOE Order 5481.IB, "Safety Analysis and Review System," Washington, DC, September 1986. 

Thomas, C.E. Direct-Hydrogen-Fueled Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell System for Transportation Applications Hydrogen Vehicle Safety Report, DOE/CE/5039-502. U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. 1997. 

Surveys indicate that consumers favor government mandates or taxes to reduce oil dependency even while individual consumer choices result in the opposite (U.S. Department of Energy, 2001). The political system has reflected this by limiting regulatory requirements on the automobile and fuel industries to emission reductions and safety improvements that are largely transparent to the end consumer. California s controversial zero emission vehicle program was criticized, in part, because it required manufacturers to sell ZEVs but did not have a parallel requirement for consumers to buy them. 

Guide to Use of the Management Oversight and Risk Tree, SDDC-103. Idaho Falls, ID U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Safety and Quality, 1994. Johnson, William G. MORT Safety Assurance Systems. New York Marcel Dekker, 1980. 

While the OSHA rule applies to operations that affect workers within a site where certain highly hazardous chemicals are present at stated levels, the EPA rule was developed to additionally protect the public and the environment from the undesired consequences of explosions and other accidental releases. Much of the information in this chapter comes from DOE-STD-1100 (U.S. Department of Energy 19%) and is enhanced with associated material from the System Safety Analysis Handbook (Stephans and Talso 1997) and other sources as specified. 

In its broadest sense, MORT is a formal disciplined logic that systematically relates and Integrates a wide variety of safety concepts. The effectiveness of the MORT system, with over eight years of deveiopment and test behind it, has been verified in actual field trials. Its use is now mandatory within the U.S Department of Energy for the more severe classes of accidents. 

Nuclear criticality safety in mas ve low-enrichment systems is a blend of common sense and practicality, as well as nuclear reactor physics. For almost 30 years, the classic principles of criticality safety, i.e., mass, geometry, and concentration, have been applied in the digestion areas of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Feed Materials Processing Center, located in Fernald, Ohio. Several different dissolver vessels are used at this site, including a... 

The Technology Informatim System (TIS) at LLNL opiates the host computer fm NCfiS. The NCIS project is funded by the U. S. Department of Energy s Nudear Facility Safety Division, Office of Nuclear Safety. 

Opresko, D. M. Ph.D., Chemical Hazard Evaluation Group, Biomedical and Environmental Information Analysis Section, Health and Safety Research Division, by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-840R21400, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1993. 

U. S. Department of Energy, Letter, Frank R. McCoy III, SRSPO to John Gallagher, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, "Independent Safety Assessment of Savannah River Production Reactor Electric Power Systems," dated June 4, 1990. 

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