A newly released report from the Union of Concerned Scientists argues for reusing existing nuclear weapon cores from ...

NNSA/DOE facilities with a potential for a criticality accident require that personnel wear nuclear accident dosimeters (NADs). (1) The UNAD project proposed to a) gather information on the existing ...

To minimize the occurrence of these events, timely detection of fire accidents is necessary ... All these methods need the detection of the criticality of the fire event. This work proposes an ...

putting the victims of the Goiânia accident up there with the most irradiated people in history, though Hisashi Ouchi is thought to have been exposed to far more during the Tokaimura Criticality ...

A woman was killed in a freak accident at a Kansas airfield after she backed into an active airplane propeller while taking photos. Just before 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 26, the Sedgwick County ...

Before the Fukushima disaster of 2011, the Tokaimura nuclear accident was the worst in Japan’s history. On Sept. 30, 1999, a combination of safety shortcuts, human error, and lack of oversight led to ...

The reactor achieved first criticality - its first sustained nuclear fission reaction ... Watts Bar 2's completion has incorporated upgrades in response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident of 2011 ...

BWXT offered a statement saying “All the controls required to prevent a criticality accident were fully functional to protect workers, the public and the environment. In addition, we have ...