Proposed American National Standard ANS-8.23: Nuclear criticality accident emergency planning and response

A working group was appointed by the American Nuclear Society standards subcommittee ANS-8 in 1992 to write a standard that provides more guidance in planning and response to a criticality accident than that given in American National Standard, {open_quotes}Administrative Practices for Nuclear Criticality Safety,{close_quotes} American National Standards Institute/American Nuclear Society (ANSI/ANS)-8.19-1984(R89). The scope of the standard is that it provides guidance for minimizing risks to personnel during emergency response to a nuclear criticality accident outside reactors. This standard applies to those facilities for which a criticality accident alarm system, as specified in ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, {open_quotes}Criticality Accident Alarm System,{close_quotes} is required. The standard does not apply to nuclear power plant sites or to those licensed research reactor facilities that are addressed by the provisions of the ANSI/ANS-3.8 series and ANSI/ANS-l5.16, respectively. It does not apply to off-site transportation accidents or off-site emergency planning and response.