DOE O 420.1, Facility Safety
Functional areas: Management Systems and Standards, Project Management, Quality Assurance and Oversight, Work Processes
Establishes facility safety requirements related to: nuclear safety design, criticality safety, fire protection and natural phenomena hazards mitigation.
Cancels DOE 5480.7A, DOE 5480.24, DOE 5480.28 and Division 13 of DOE 6430.1A. Canceled by DOE O 420.1A.
Version history and related documents
Supersedes
Earlier documents this one replaced.
- DOE O 5480.7AFire Protection (Oct 13, 1995)
- DOE O 5480.24Nuclear Criticality Safety (Oct 13, 1995)
- DOE O 5480.28Natural Phenomena Hazards Mitigation (Oct 13, 1995)
- DOE O 6430.1A Div 8-16General Design Criteria (Oct 13, 1995)
- DOE O 6430.1A Div 1-7General Design Criteria (Oct 13, 1995)
Document text
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Section 1
1. OBJECTIVE. The objective of this Order is to establish facility safety
requirements related to: nuclear safety design, criticality safety, fire
protection and natural phenomena hazards mitigation.
2. CANCELLATION. The Orders listed below are canceled. Cancellation of an Order
does not, by itself, modify or otherwise affect any contractual obligation to
comply with such an Order. Canceled Orders which are incorporated by
reference in a contract shall remain in effect until the contract is modified
to delete the reference to the requirements in the canceled Orders.
a. DOE 5480.28, NATURAL PHENOMENA HAZARDS MITIGATION
b. DOE 5480.7A, FIRE PROTECTION
c. DOE 6430.1A, GENERAL DESIGN CRITERIA (NUCLEAR AND EXPLOSIVES SAFETY
REQUIREMENTS)
d. DOE 5480.24, CRITICALITY SAFETY]
NOTE: To be implemented upon issuance of final order.
3. APPLICABILITY.
a. DOE Elements. Except for the exclusions in paragraph 3c, this Order
applies to DOE Elements with responsibility for DOE-owned or leased
facilities as follows (see Attachment 1, Table 1, "Facility and Activity
Applicability"):
(1) 4.2, 4.4 All DOE nuclear and non-nuclear facilities.
(2) 4.1, 4.3 All DOE non-reactor nuclear facilities which are
classified as Hazard Categories 1, 2, or 3; and
explosives facilities.
b. Contractors. Except for the exclusions in paragraph 3c, the Contractor
Requirements Document (CRD), Attachment 2, sets forth requirements that
are to be applied to the universe of contractors awarded contracts for
management and operating contracts. Contractor compliance with the CRD
will be required to the extent set forth in a contract. Contractors
shall be directed to continue to comply with the requirements of Orders
canceled by this Order until their contracts are modified to delete the
reference to the requirements of the canceled Orders.
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c. Exclusions.
(1) Activities that are regulated through a license by the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) or a State under an
Agreement with the NRC, including activities certified by
the NRC under section 1701 of the Atomic Energy Act;
(2) Activities conducted under the authority of the Director,
Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, as described in Public Law
98-525;
(3) Activities conducted under the Nuclear Explosives and
Weapons Safety Program relating to the prevention of
accidental or unauthorized nuclear detonations to the extent
a requirement under this part cannot be implemented for a
particular facility in a manner that does not compromise the
effectiveness of such activities;
(4) Activities that are regulated by the Department of
Transportation or pursuant to 49 CFR 173.7(b);
(5) Accelerator facilities that are covered by DOE Order 5480.25
(excluded from §§4.1 and 4.3 but not from §§4.2 and 4.4.);
(6) Fusion facilities (excluded from §§4.1 and 4.3 but not from
§§4.2 and 4.4.).
4. REQUIREMENTS. Each section of this Order has specific requirements, and
where appropriate schedules for implementing requirements and specific
exemptions, which are provided in the following corresponding sections
of this Order. In complying with the provisions of this Order,
determinations regarding the acceptability of design should include
comparison with existing safety basis information, if available. All
new construction shall, as a minimum, conform to the Model Building
Codes applicable for the state or region, supplemented with additional
safety requirements associated with the hazards in the facility in a
graded manner.
Section 2
Guidance associated with this Order are not mandatory requirements. The
guidance provided in implementation guides and standards referenced
therein are acceptable methods to satisfy the requirements of this
Order. Alternative methods that satisfy the requirements of this Order
are also acceptable. Any implementation method selected must be
justified to ensure that an adequate level of safety commensurate with
the identified hazards is achieved.
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4.1. Nuclear and Explosives Safety Design Criteria
Nuclear Safety
The objectives of section 4.1 for nuclear safety are to ensure that Department
of Energy (DOE) non-reactor nuclear facilities are designed and constructed so
as to assure adequate protection for the public, workers, and the environment
from nuclear hazards. The requirements of this section apply to the
activities of design and construction of new Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 DOE
non-reactor nuclear facilities and to the design and construction of
modifications to existing DOE Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 non-reactor nuclear
facilities when the proposed modifications significantly degrades the approved
safety basis for the facility. Modifications to facility design and
construction during the design and construction phase shall conform to the
requirements for new facilities. Section 4.1 does not apply to the decision
process to modify a facility, except to serve as a standard of comparison for
safety requirements. Activities associated with facility deactivation at end
of life are exempt if justified by a safety analysis.
Explosives Safety
The objective of section 4.1 for explosives safety is to establish mandatory
standards for explosives safety in the design and construction of DOE
explosives facilities or modifications thereof. Explosives facilities are
those facilities or locations used for storage or operations with explosives
or ammunition. When these facilities are also non-reactor nuclear facilities,
the requirements for nuclear safety design also apply.
4.1.1 Nuclear Safety
4.1.1.1 General Requirements
Detailed application of these requirements shall be guided by safety analyses
that establish the identification and functions of safety (safety class and
safety significant) Structures, Systems, and Components (SSCs) for a facility
and establish the significance to safety of functions performed by those SSCs.
Safety analyses shall consider facility hazards, natural phenomena hazards,
and external man-induced hazards. Factors such as proximity to nearby
facilities such as airports, pipelines, and barge traffic peculiar to the site
shall be considered. A safety analysis shall be performed at the earliest
practical point in conceptual or preliminary design, so that required
functional attributes of safety SSCs can be specified in the detailed design.
Safety analyses shall be performed in accordance with Safety Analysis Report
(SAR) guidance for safety analysis, as described in DOE guidance documents.
4.1.1.2 Design Requirements
Non-reactor nuclear facilities shall be designed with the objective of
providing multiple layers of protection to prevent or mitigate the unintended
release of radioactive materials to the environment. Defense in depth shall
include: siting, minimization of material at risk, the use of conservative
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Section 3
design margins and quality assurance; the use of successive physical barriers
for protection against the release of radioactivity; the provision of multiple
means to ensure critical safety functions (those basic safety functions needed
to control the processes, maintain them in a safe state, and to confine and
mitigate radioactivity associated with the potential for accidents with
significant public radiological impact); the use of equipment and
administrative controls which restrict deviations from normal operations and
provide for recovery from accidents to achieve a safe condition; means to
monitor accident releases required for emergency responses; and the provision
of emergency plans for minimizing the effects of an accident.
Facilities shall be sited and designed in such a manner that gives adequate
protection for the health and safety of the public and for workers, including
those at adjacent facilities, from the effects of potential facility accidents
involving the release of radioactive materials.
Facilities shall be designed to facilitate safe deactivation, decommissioning
and decontamination at end of life.
Facilities shall be designed to facilitate inspections, testing, maintenance,
repair and replacement of safety SSCs as part of an overall reliability,
availability, and maintainability program. The objective is that the facility
can be maintained in a safe state, including during these operations, and in
keeping with the as low as is reasonably achievable (ALARA) principle for
occupational radiation exposure.
Facilities shall be designed to keep occupational radiation exposure within
statutory limits and incorporate ALARA principles in design, including design
provisions to facilitate decontamination during the operational period.
Facility process systems shall be designed to minimize the production of
wastes and minimize the mixing of radioactive and non radioactive wastes.
Safety SSCs identified in accordance with this section shall, commensurate
with the importance of the safety functions performed, be designed: (1) so
that they can perform their safety functions when called upon to operate, and
(2) under a quality assurance program that satisfies 10 CFR 830.120.
4.1.2 Explosives Safety
The safety design of all new DOE explosives facilities and all modifications
to existing explosives facilities shall conform to the DOE explosives safety
requirements established in the DOE Explosives Safety Manual, DOE M 440.1-1.
Facility structural design and construction shall comply with the requirements
of TM5-1300, Structures to Resist the Effects of Accidental Explosions, and
DOE/TIC-11268, A Manual for the Prediction of Blast and Fragment Loading of
Structures. Blast-resistant design for personnel and facility protection
shall be based on the TNT equivalency of the maximum quantity of explosives
and propellants permitted. In accordance with TM5-1300, the TNT equivalency
shall be increased by 20% for design purposes.
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4.1.3 Implementation
An Implementation Plan describing the process that will ensure that the
requirements of this section will be invoked during the design and
construction shall be submitted to the DOE Cognizant Secretarial Officer or
his designee in accordance with section 5. Deviations from applicable
requirements shall be appropriately documented and justified.
4.2. Fire Protection
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1. The objectives of section 4.2 are to establish requirements for a
comprehensive fire and related hazards protection program for facilities
sufficient to minimize the potential for: (1) the occurrence of a fire or
related event; (2) a fire that causes an unacceptable on-site or off-site
release of hazardous or radiological material that will threaten the
health and safety of employees, the public or the environment; (3) vital
DOE programs suffering unacceptable interruptions as a result of fire and
related hazards; (4) property losses from a fire and related events
exceeding defined limits established by DOE; and (5) critical process
controls and safety class systems being damaged as a result of a fire and
related events.
2. Section 4.2 of this Order has primacy over all other DOE Orders with
respect to matters concerning fire protection for facilities (refer to
DOE 440.1 for worker protection requirements). To the extent that
potential conflicts may arise resulting from the implementation of these
requirements in relation to other DOE Orders or Directives, the cognizant
fire protection Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) within the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health shall be
responsible for resolving the issue in concert with the other AHJs.
3. DOE facilities, sites and activities (including design and construction)
shall be characterized by a level of fire protection that is sufficient
to fulfill the requirements of the best protected class of industrial
risks ("Highly Protected Risk" or "Improved Risk") and shall be provided
protection to achieve "defense-in-depth." This includes meeting the
applicable building code and National Fire Protection Association Codes
and Standards, or exceeding them (when necessary to meet safety
objectives), unless an exemption has been granted. The applicable codes
and standards are those in effect when facility design commences ("code
of record"). When significant modifications to a facility occur, the
current edition of the code or standard shall apply to the modification.
4.2.1 General Programmatic Requirements
DOE Elements and contractors shall develop, implement and maintain an
acceptable fire protection program with the following features:
1. A policy statement that incorporates the requirements of this Section,
related DOE directives, and other applicable Federal, state and local
fire protection requirements. The statement shall affirm management's
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commitment to support a level of fire protection and fire suppression
capability sufficient to minimize losses from fire and related hazards
consistent with the best class of protected property in private industry.
2. Comprehensive, written fire protection criteria that reflect additional
site-specific aspects of the fire protection program, including the
organization, training and responsibilities of the fire protection staff,
administrative aspects of the fire protection program, and requirements
for the design, installation, operability, inspection, maintenance and
testing of fire protection systems.
3. Written fire safety procedures governing the use and storage of
combustible, flammable, radioactive, and hazardous materials so as to
minimize the risk from fire. Such procedures shall also exist for fire
protection system impairments and for activities such as smoking, hot
work, safe operation of process equipment, and other fire prevention
measures which contribute to the decrease in fire risk.
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4. A system to ensure that the requirements of the DOE fire protection
program are documented and incorporated in the plans and specifications
for all new facilities and for significant modifications of existing
facilities. This includes a documented review by a qualified fire
protection engineer of plans, specifications, procedures, and acceptance
tests.
5. Fire hazards analyses (FHA) for all nuclear facilities, significant new
facilities and facilities that represent unique or significant fire
safety risks. The FHA shall be developed using a graded approach. The
conclusions of the FHA shall be incorporated in the Safety Analysis
Report (SAR) Accident Analysis and shall be integrated into design basis
and beyond design basis accident conditions.
6. Access to a qualified and trained fire protection staff, including a fire
protection engineer(s), technicians and fire fighting personnel to
implement the requirements of this Section.
7. A "baseline" needs assessment that establishes the minimum required
capabilities of site fire fighting forces. This includes minimum
staffing, apparatus, facilities, equipment, training, fire pre-plans,
off-site assistance requirements, and procedures. Information from this
assessment shall be incorporated into the site Emergency Plan.
8. Written pre-fire strategies, plans, and standard operating procedures to
enhance the effectiveness of site fire fighting forces, where provided.
Such procedures include those governing the use of fire fighting water or
other neutron moderating materials to suppress fire within or adjacent to
moderation controlled areas. Restrictions on the use of water shall be
fully justified on the basis of criticality safety.
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9. A comprehensive, documented fire protection self-assessment program,
which includes all aspects (program and facility) of the fire protection
program. Assessments shall be performed on a regular basis at a
frequency established by DOE.
10. A program to identify, prioritize and monitor the status of fire
protection-related appraisal findings/recommendations until final
resolution is achieved. When final resolution will be significantly
delayed, appropriate interim compensatory measures shall be implemented
to minimize the fire risk.
11. A process for reviewing and recommending approval of fire safety
"equivalencies" and "exemptions" to the DOE Authority Having Jurisdiction
for fire safety.
4.2.2 Fire Protection Design Requirements
DOE Elements and contractors shall develop, implement and maintain a
comprehensive fire protection program for facilities that includes:
1. A reliable water supply of adequate capacity for fire suppression.
2. Noncombustible or fire-resistive construction, where appropriate.
Complete fire-rated barriers that are commensurate with the fire hazard
to isolate hazardous occupancies and to minimize fire spread and loss
potential consistent with defined limits as established by DOE.
3. Automatic fire extinguishing systems throughout all significant
facilities and in all areas subject to loss of safety class systems,
significant life safety hazards, unacceptable program interruption, or
fire loss potential in excess of defined limits.
4. Redundant fire protection systems in areas where safety class systems are
vulnerable to fire damage and where no redundant safety capability exists
outside of the fire area. In new facilities, redundant safety class
systems shall be in separate fire areas. Redundant fire protection
systems shall also be provided in areas where the maximum possible fire
loss (MPFL) exceeds limits established by DOE.
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5. A means to summon the fire department in the event of a fire, such as a
fire alarm signalling system.
6. A means to notify and evacuate building occupants in the event of a fire,
such as a fire detection or fire alarm system and illuminated, protected
egress paths.
7. Physical access and appropriate equipment to facilitate effective
intervention by the fire department, such as an interior standpipe
system(s) in multi-story or large facilities with complex configurations.
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8. A means to prevent the accidental release of significant quantities of
contaminated products of combustion and fire fighting water to the
environment, such as ventilation control and filter systems and curbs and
dikes. Such features would only be necessary if required by the FHA or
SAR in conjunction with other facility or site environmental protection
measures.
9. Fire and related hazards that are unique to DOE and are not addressed by
industry codes and standards shall be protected by isolation, segregation
or use of special fire control systems, such as inert gas or explosion
suppression, as determined by the FHA.
10. Fire protection systems shall be designed such that their inadvertent
operation, inactivation or failure of structural stability will not
result in the loss of vital safety functions or inoperability of safety
class systems as determined by the SAR.
4.3. Nuclear Criticality Safety
DOE Elements shall ensure that a contractor responsible for a DOE non-reactor
nuclear facility shall establish a nuclear criticality safety program that (i)
applies to fissionable materials that are produced, processed, stored,
transferred, disposed, or otherwise handled, and (ii) includes the following
elements in paragraphs 4.3.2 and 4.3.3.
4.3.1 Objectives
The objective shall be to establish nuclear criticality safety program
requirements to ensure that:
1. Criticality safety is comprehensively addressed and receives an
objective review, with all identified risks reduced to acceptably
low levels and management authorization of the operation is
documented.
2. The public, workers, property, both government and private, the
environment, and essential operations are protected from the
effects of a criticality accident.
4.3.2 General Requirements
Operations with fissionable materials which pose a criticality accident hazard
shall be evaluated and documented to demonstrate that the operation will be
subcritical under both normal and credible abnormal conditions. Fissionable
material operations shall be conducted in such a manner that consequences to
personnel and property that result from a criticality accident will be
mitigated. No single credible event or failure shall result in a criticality
accident having unmitigated consequences.
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The nuclear criticality safety program shall be evaluated and documented and
shall include:
(i) Nuclear criticality safety evaluations for normal and credible
abnormal conditions that document the parameters, limits, and
controls required to ensure that the analyzed conditions are
subcritical.
(ii) Implementation of limits and controls identified by the nuclear
criticality safety evaluations.
(iii) Reviews of operations to ascertain that limits and controls are
being followed and that process conditions have not been altered
such that the applicability of the nuclear criticality safety
evaluation has been compromised.
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(iv) Assessment of the need for criticality accident detection devices
and alarm systems, and installation of such equipment where total
risk to personnel will be reduced.
4.3.3 Specific Requirements
Fissionable materials shall be produced, processed, stored, transferred,
disposed, or otherwise handled in such a manner that the probability of a
criticality accident is acceptably low, and, to the extent practical, all
persons, all government, public, and private property, and the environment are
protected from damaging effects and undue hazards that may arise from a
criticality accident.
The Contractor Criticality Safety Program for non-reactor nuclear
facilities shall include the following requirements:
a. Contractor Criticality Safety Programs (CCSPs) shall apply to
operations involving fissionable materials that pose a criticality
accident hazard. Fissionable nuclides of concern to this section
are listed in Table 4.3-1. The assignment of nuclides to the
three columns in Table 4.3-1 is based on typical conditions. DOE
Elements shall ensure that each contractor organization shall
determine which column is appropriate to the fissionable nuclides
existing in its inventory, whether listed in this table or not
expressly included. Specific technical information concerning
differences in behavior of these nuclides relevant to their
differing abilities to support a self-sustaining nuclear chain
reaction may be found in ANSI/ANS-8.1-1983,R88 and ANSI/ANS-8.15-
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Table 4.3-1. Fissionable Nuclides of Criticality Concern
Nuclide Nuclide Nuclide
92U233* 93Np237 91Pa231**
92U235* 94Pu238 92U232**
94Pu239* 94Pu240 92U234**
94Pu241 96Cm246**
94Pu242 98Cf250**
95Am241 98Cf252**
95Am242m 99Es254**
95Am243
96Cm243
96Cm244
96Cm245
96Cm247
98Cf249
98Cf251
* existing in quantities and forms that lead to the major
focus of nuclear criticality safety
** existing in isolated quantities less than potential minimum
critical mass (per ANSI/ANS-8.15-1981,R87, "Nuclear
Criticality Control of Special Actinide Elements")
b. The basic elements and control parameters of programs for nuclear
criticality safety shall satisfy the requirements of the following
American Nuclear Society's ANSI/ANS nuclear criticality safety
standards:
ANSI/ANS-8.1-1983,R88, "Nuclear Criticality Safety in
Operations with Fissionable Materials Outside Reactors,"
however paragraphs 4.2.2 and 4.2.3, and paragraph 3.3 shall
be followed as modified in section 4.3.3.d of this Order;
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, "Criticality Accident Alarm System,"
however paragraphs 4.1.2, 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 shall be followed
as modified in section 4.3.3.c and e of this Order;
ANSI/ANS-8.5-1986, "Use of Borosilicate-Glass Raschig Rings
as a Neutron Absorber in Solutions of Fissile Material";
ANSI/ANS-8.6-1983,R88, "Safety in Conducting Subcritical
Neutron-Multiplication Measurements in Situ," however
paragraph 5.3 shall be followed as modified in section
4.3.3.f of this Order;
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ANSI/ANS-8.7-1975,R87, "Guide for Nuclear Criticality Safety
in the Storage of Fissile Materials," however paragraph 5.2
shall be followed as modified by section 4.3.3.c of this
Order.
ANSI/ANS-8.9-1987, "Nuclear Criticality Safety Criteria for
Steel-Pipe Intersections Containing Aqueous Solutions of
Fissile Materials";
ANSI/ANS-8.10-1983,R88, "Criteria for Nuclear Criticality
Safety Controls in Operations with Shielding and
Confinement";
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ANSI/ANS-8.12-1987,R93, "Nuclear Criticality Control and
Safety of Plutonium-Uranium Fuel Mixtures Outside Reactors";
ANSI/ANS-8.15-1981,R87, "Nuclear Criticality Control of
Special Actinide Elements";
ANSI/ANS-8.17-1984,R89, "Criticality Safety Criteria for the
Handling, Storage, and Transportation of LWR Fuel Outside
Reactors," however paragraph 4.3 shall be followed as
modified in section 4.3.3.g of this Order;
ANSI/ANS-8.19-1984,R89, "Administrative Practices for
Nuclear Criticality Safety;"
ANSI/ANS-8.21-1995, "Use of Fixed Neutron Absorbers in
Nuclear Facilities Outside Reactors."
Revisions to any of the ANSI/ANS standards listed above will place
this Section under immediate review by DOE. Revised ANSI
standards shall not be used unless an exemption is granted or it
is incorporated into a DOE Order.
c. All recommendations in the ANSI/ANS standards listed in paragraph
4.3.3.b shall be addressed. When recommendations are not
implemented, justification shall be documented in a manner
described in the Implementation Plan .
Two ANSI/ANS recommendations shall be requirements:
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, paragraph 4.1.2, the second sentence of
which becomes, for this Order, "Where alarm systems are
installed, emergency plans shall be maintained."
ANSI/ANS-8.7-1975,R87, paragraph 5.2, the last sentence of
which becomes, for this Order, "The effects of more
significant moderation shall be evaluated."
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d. For DOE application, the following sections of ANSI/ANS-8.1-
1983,R88, "Nuclear Criticality Safety in Operations with
Fissionable Materials Outside Reactors," shall be read as follows:
(1) Application of Double Contingency (paragraph 4.2.2, Double
Contingency). Process designs shall incorporate sufficient
factors of safety to require at least two unlikely,
independent, and concurrent changes in process conditions
before a criticality accident is possible. Protection shall
be provided by either (i) the control of two independent
process parameters (which is the preferred approach, when
practical, to prevent common-mode failure), or (ii) a system
of multiple controls on a single process parameter. The
number of controls required upon a single controlled process
parameter shall be based upon control reliability and any
features that mitigate the consequences of control failure.
In all cases, no single credible event or failure shall
result in the potential for a criticality accident, except
as referenced in the paragraph that follows.
An exception to the application of double contingency, where
single contingency operations are permissible, is presented
in paragraph 5.1 of ANSI/ANS-8.10-1983,R88. This exception
applies to operations with shielding and confinement (e.g.,
hot cells or other shielded facilities).
Double contingency shall be demonstrated by documented
evaluations.
(2) Application of Geometry Control (paragraph 4.2.3, Geometry
Control). Where a significant quantity of fissionable
material is being processed and criticality safety is a
concern, passive engineered controls such as geometry
control shall be considered as a preferred control method.
Where passive engineered control is not feasible, the
preferred Order of controls is: active engineered controls,
followed by administrative controls. The double contingency
analysis shall justify the chosen controls. Full advantage
may be taken of any nuclear characteristics of the process
materials and equipment. All dimensions, nuclear
properties, and other features upon which reliance is placed
shall be documented and verified prior to beginning
operations, and control shall be exercised to maintain them.
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(3) Application of Definition of "Bias" (paragraph 3.3, Glossary
of Terms). The uncertainty in the bias is interpreted as a
measure of both the accuracy of the calculation and the
precision of the experimental data. It is assumed also to
include (a) the precision of the calculation if the
calculation is stochastic (notwithstanding that such
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precision often can be made as great as desired), and (b)
the accuracy of the experimental data if the experiment is a
mock-up of a referenced system.
Deterministic computer calculations are assumed to have very
high precision, or should be made to have very high
precision. Stochastic computer calculations should be
forced to have appropriately high precision. An experiment
that is not a mock-up is exactly accurate by definition.
e. The requirements in ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986 relating to the needs for an
alarm system (paragraphs 4.2.1 and 4.2.2), are not applicable to
this Order. For the purpose of this Order, Criticality Accident
Alarm Systems (CAS) and Criticality Detection Systems (CDS) shall
be required as follows:
In what follows, 10-6 per year is used as a measure of credibility,
and does not mean that a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) has to
be performed. Reasonable grounds for incredibility may be
presented on the basis of commonly accepted engineering judgment.
(1) In those facilities where the mass of fissionable material
exceeds the limits established in paragraph 4.2.1 of
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986 and the probability of a criticality
accident is greater than 10-6 per year (as documented in a
DOE-approved Safety Analysis Report (SAR) or in the
supporting analysis for an SAR), a CAS conforming to
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986 shall be provided to cover occupied areas
in which the expected dose exceeds 12 rads in free air,
where a CAS is defined to include a criticality accident
detection device and a personnel evacuation alarm.
(2) In those facilities where the mass of fissionable material
exceeds the limits established in paragraph 4.2.1 of
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986 and the probability of a criticality
accident is greater than 10-6 per year, (as documented in a
DOE-approved SAR or in the supporting analysis for an SAR),
but there are no occupied areas in which the expected dose
exceeds 12 rads in free air, a CDS shall be provided, where
a CDS is defined to be an appropriate criticality accident
detection device but without an immediate evacuation alarm.
The CDS response time should be sufficient to allow for
appropriate process-related mitigation and recovery actions.
DOE Elements shall ensure that appropriate response guidance
to minimize personnel exposure shall be provided by the
contractor.
(3) In those facilities where the mass of fissionable material
exceeds the limits established in paragraph 4.2.1 of
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, but a criticality accident is determined
to be impossible due to the physical form of the fissionable
material, or the probability of occurrence is determined to
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be less than 10-6 per year (as documented in a DOE-approved
SAR or in the supporting analysis for an SAR, or in other
appropriate documentation), neither a CAS nor a CDS is
required.
Neither a CAS nor a CDS is required for fissionable material
during shipment when packaged in approved shipping
containers, or when packaged in approved shipping containers
awaiting transport provided that no other operation
involving fissionable material not so packaged is permitted
on the shipping dock or in the shipment area.
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(4) If a criticality accident is possible wherein a slow (i.e.,
quasistatic) increase in reactivity could occur leading from
subcriticality to supercriticality to self-shutdown without
setting off emplaced criticality alarms, then a CAS might
not be adequate for protection against the consequences of
such an accident.
To aid in protecting workers against the consequences of
slow criticality accidents in facilities where analysis has
shown that slow criticality accidents are credible, CASs
should be supplemented by warning devices such as audible
personnel dosimeters (e.g., pocket chirpers/flashers, or
their equivalents), area radiation monitors, area
dosimeters, or integrating CASs. If these devices are used
solely as criticality warning devices in accordance with
this Section, they shall be exempt from the calibration
requirement of DOE Order 5480.11 (Radiation Protection for
Occupational Workers, 12-21-88).
(5) Neither a CAS nor a CDS is required to be installed for
handling or storage of fissionable material when sufficient
shielding exists that is adequate to protect personnel
(e.g., spent fuel pools, hot cells, or burial grounds);
however a means to detect fission product gasses or other
volatile fission products should be provided in occupied
areas immediately adjacent to such shielded areas, except
for systems where no fission products are likely to be
released.
f. For DOE application, in section 5.3 of ANSI/ANS-8.6-1983,R88,
"Safety in Conducting Subcritical Neutron-Multiplication
Measurements in Situ," "i.e." should be read as "e.g."
g. For DOE application, in section 4.3 of ANSI/ANS-8.17-1984,R89,
"Criticality Safety Criteria for the Handling, Storage, and
Transportation of LWR Fuel Outside Reactors," the guidance on
alarm systems is specifically modified in this Order.
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h. It is acceptable to DOE to follow DOE-STD-3007-93 (Guidelines for
Preparing Criticality Safety Evaluations at Department of Energy
non-Reactor Nuclear Facilities) when preparing Criticality Safety
Evaluations.
For DOE application, the following sections of DOE-STD-3007-93
shall be read as follows:
(1) II. DEFINITIONS. The definition of "BIAS" should be
interpreted as discussed in paragraph 4.3.3.d.(3).
(2) 4.0 METHODOLOGY. When computer neutronics calculations are
used, the type of computing platform should be stated along
with relevant code configuration control information and
code development and user documentation.
i. DOE Elements shall ensure that the contractor shall have a program
to detect inadvertent accumulation of significant quantities of
fissionable material.
j. Transportation Requirements for Fissionable Material.
(1) The requirements of this Section shall apply to all
activities where fissionable material is transferred from
one operation to another within a facility and from one on-
site location to another.
(2) The requirements of DOE O 460.1 (Packaging and
Transportation Safety, 9-27-95) shall be complied with
regarding off-site shipment of fissionable material.
DOE O 460.1 (Packaging and Transportation Safety, 9-27-95)
shall apply to the safe transportation of weapon components
and special assemblies shipped in national defense.
k. Guidelines for Fire Fighting
The fire protection program (Section 4.2.1) shall establish
guidelines for fire fighting within, or adjacent to, moderation
controlled areas. These guidelines shall be based on comparisons
of risks and consequences of a criticality accident with the risks
and consequences of postulated fires for the respective area(s).
Risk and consequence comparisons may be a qualitative evaluation.
The basis for the guidelines shall be documented.
Section 11
4.4. Natural Phenomena Hazards Mitigation
The objectives of this section are to ensure that all DOE facilities are
designed, constructed, and operated so that the general public, workers, and
the environment are protected from the impact of Natural Phenomena Hazards
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(NPHs).The provisions of this section apply to DOE sites and facilities. The
provisions of this section cover all natural phenomena hazards such as
seismic, wind, flood, lightning. Where no specific requirements are
specified, model building codes or national consensus industry standards shall
be used.
4.4.1 General Requirements
For hazardous facilities, safety analyses shall include the ability of
Systems, Structures, Components (SSCs) and personnel to perform their intended
safety functions under the effects of natural phenomena.
4.4.2 Natural Phenomena Mitigation Design Requirements
Systems, structures and components shall be designed, constructed and operated
to withstand the effects of natural phenomena as necessary to ensure the
confinement of hazardous material, the operation of essential facilities, the
protection of government property, and the protection of life safety for
occupants of DOE buildings. The design process shall consider potential
damage and failure of systems, structures and components due to both direct
and indirect natural phenomena effects, including common cause effects and
interactions from failures of other systems, structures and components.
Furthermore, the seismic requirements of Executive Order 12699 shall be
addressed.
Systems, structures and components for new DOE facilities, and additions or
major modifications to existing systems, structures and components shall be
designed, constructed and operated to meet the requirements in the previous
paragraph. Any additions and modifications to existing DOE facilities shall
not degrade the performance of existing systems, structures and components to
the extent that the objectives in this Section cannot be achieved under the
effects of natural phenomena.
4.4.3 Evaluation and Upgrade of Existing DOE Facilities
Systems, structures and components in existing DOE facilities shall be
evaluated in accordance with Section 4.4.2 when there is a significant
degradation in the safety basis for the facility. Furthermore, the seismic
requirements of Executive Order 12941 shall be addressed.
If any of the conditions above are satisfied then the contractor/operator
shall establish a plan for evaluating the affected systems, structures and
components. The plan shall incorporate a schedule for evaluation taking into
account programmatic mission considerations and the safety significance of the
potential failure of systems, structures and components due to natural
phenomena.
If the evaluation of existing systems, structures and components identifies
natural phenomena mitigation deficiencies, the contractor/operator shall
establish an upgrade plan for the affected systems, structures and components.
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The upgrade plan shall incorporate a prioritized schedule for upgrading the
systems, structures and components. The upgrade plan shall address possible
time or funding constraints as well as programmatic mission considerations.
4.4.4 Natural Phenomena Hazards Assessment
Section 12
The design and evaluation of facilities to withstand natural phenomena shall
be based on an assessment of the likelihood of future natural phenomena
occurrences. The natural phenomena hazards assessment shall be conducted
commensurate with a graded approach and commensurate with the potential hazard
of the facility.
For new Sites; natural phenomena hazards assessment shall be conducted
commensurate with a graded approach to the facility. Site planning shall
consider the consequences of all types of natural phenomena hazards.
For existing Sites; if there are significant changes in natural phenomena
hazards assessment methodology or site-specific information, the natural
phenomena hazards assessments shall be reviewed and shall be updated, as
necessary. A review of the natural phenomena hazards assessment shall be
conducted at least every 10 years. The review shall include recommendations
to DOE on the need for updating the existing natural phenomena hazards
assessments based on identification of any significant changes in methods or
data.
4.4.5 Natural Phenomena Detection
Facilities or sites with hazardous materials shall have instrumentation or
other means to detect and record the occurrence and severity of seismic
events.
4.4.6 Post-Natural Phenomena Procedures
Facilities or sites with hazardous materials shall have procedures that
include, inspecting the facility for damage caused by severe natural
phenomena, and placing the facility into a safe configuration when such damage
has occurred.
5. RESPONSIBILITIES.
a. Secretary of Energy: The Secretary of Energy retains sole and
final authority to determine what acts are necessary to comply
with this Order. Further, the Secretary retains the authority to
suspend any or all requirements under this Order whenever the
Secretary deems it necessary. This authority may be delegated by
the Secretary.
b. Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health: The
Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health is
responsible for development, promulgation, and maintaining the
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policy, requirements, guidance, and technical standards, and
providing advice and assistance, as requested, concerning
implementation of DOE safety policy as it relates to this Order at
DOE facilities; and for monitoring and reviewing the
implementation of all aspects of this Order, including field
organizations and contractor performance.
c. Cognizant Secretarial Officers: Cognizant Secretarial Officers or
designees for facilities or planned facilities under their
programmatic responsibilities shall ensure that all programs
comply with requirements falling within the scope of this Order,
shall review and approve Implementation Plans submitted to
implement the Order, and shall review and approve requests for
exemptions.
d. Heads of Field Organizations: As directed by the CSO, shall
ensure that the requirements falling within the scope of this
Order are in compliance with this Order.
Field Elements are responsible for determining whether adequate
protection can most effectively be achieved by continuing to
operate under the terms of existing contracts requiring compliance
with old Orders or by modifying the contract to incorporate the
requirements of revised.
Field Elements are responsible for determining that implementation
of new rule or Order requirements will provide adequate protection
prior to requesting contract modification to drop old Order
requirements from contract.
Section 13
e. Heads of DOE Elements: Heads of DOE elements shall ensure that
initiators of procurement requests shall identify in procurement
requests if the requirements in the Contractor Requirements
Document for this Order are to be applied to the award or
subawards resulting from the procurement request.
f. Contractor Organizations: As directed by the CSO or the Heads of
Field Organizations and as directed by the Contracting Officer,
contractors (including subcontractors) shall develop, implement,
and maintain the policies, objectives, and requirements of the CRD
of this Order.
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7. IMPLEMENTATION PLANS. Contractors shall submit an Implementation Plan
to DOE to implement the requirements of this Order. The Implementation
Plan shall be submitted after this Order is incorporated into applicable
contracts and shall be developed with an integrated safety review
process commensurate with the hazards.
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY:
ARCHER L. DURHAM
Assistant Secretary for
Human Resources and Administration
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FACILITY AND ACTIVITY APPLICABILITY
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FACILITY AND ACTIVITY APPLICABILITY
WEAPONS FACILITIES
SECTIO
N
NEW
NUC
NEW
NON
EXISTING
NUC
EXISTING
NON
MODS
NUC
MODS
NON
ACC &
Fusion
NE
W
EXISTING
4.0 YES YES YES YES YES YES Note 2 YES NO
4.1 YES Note 1 Note 1 Note 1 YES YES NO YES NO
4.2 YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
4.3 YES NO YES NO YES NO NO YES YES
4.4 YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Note 1: Refer to each section
Note 2: See Orders and Standards on Accelerators and Fusion Facilities
Note 3: Activities within weapons facilities relating to the prevention of accidental or
unauthorized nuclear detonations are subject to the 5600 series of DOE
Orders
NUC = Nuclear facility categorized as Hazard Category 1, 2, or 3
NON = All other facilities
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CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT
FACILITY SAFETY
4.0 REQUIREMENTS
Each section of this Document has specific requirements, and where appropriate
schedules for implementing requirements and specific exemptions, which are
provided in the following corresponding sections of this Document. In
complying with the provisions of this Document, determinations regarding the
acceptability of design should include comparison with existing safety basis
information, if available. All new construction shall, as a minimum, conform
to the Model Building Codes applicable for the state or region, supplemented
with additional safety requirements associated with the hazards in the
facility in a graded manner.
Guidance associated with this Document are not mandatory requirements. The
guidance provided in implementation guides and standards referenced therein
are acceptable methods to satisfy the requirements of this Document.
Alternative methods that satisfy the requirements of this Document are also
acceptable. Any implementation method selected must be justified to ensure
that an adequate level of safety commensurate with the identified hazards is
achieved.
4.1 Nuclear and Explosives Safety Design Criteria
In the performance of this contract, the contractor is required to comply with
the following:
Nuclear Safety
Section 14
The contractor is, for nuclear safety, required to ensure that Department of
Energy (DOE) nuclear facilities are designed and constructed so as to assure
adequate protection for the public, workers, and the environment by
application of the requirements contained herein. These requirements apply to
the activities of design and construction of new DOE nuclear facilities and of
modifications to existing DOE Hazard Category 1, 2, and 3 non-reactor nuclear
facilities when the proposed modifications significantly degrades the approved
safety basis for the facility. Modifications to facility design and
construction during the design and construction phase shall conform to the
requirements for new facilities. Activities associated with facility
deactivation at end of life are exempt if justified by safety analysis.
Explosives Safety
The contractor shall apply the mandatory standards described herein for the
design and construction of DOE explosives facilities or modifications thereof.
Explosives facilities are those facilities or locations used for storage or
operations with explosives or ammunition. When these facilities are also
nuclear facilities, the requirements for nuclear safety design also apply.
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4.1.1 Nuclear Safety
4.1.1.1 General Requirements
Detailed application of these requirements shall be guided by safety analyses
that establish the identification and functions of safety (safety class and
safety significant) Structures, Systems, and Components (SSCs) for a facility
and establish the significance to safety of functions performed by those SSCs.
Safety analyses shall consider facility hazards, natural phenomena hazards,
and external man-induced hazards. Factors such as proximity to nearby
facilities such as airports, pipelines, and barge traffic peculiar to the site
shall also be considered. A safety analysis shall be performed at the
earliest practical point in conceptual or preliminary design, so that required
functional attributes of safety SSCs can be specified in the detailed design.
Safety analyses shall be performed in accordance with Safety Analysis Report
(SAR) guidance for safety analysis, as described in DOE guidance documents.
4.1.1.2 Design Requirements
Nuclear facilities shall be designed with the objective of providing multiple
layers of protection to prevent or mitigate the unintended release of
radioactive materials to the environment. Defense in depth shall include:
siting, minimization of material at risk, the use of conservative design
margins and quality assurance; the use of successive physical barriers for
protection against the release of radioactivity; the provision of multiple
means to ensure critical safety functions (those basic safety functions needed
to control the processes, maintain them in a safe state, and to continue and
mitigate radioactivity associated with the potential for accidents with
significant public radiological impact); the use of equipment and
administrative controls which restrict deviations from normal operations and
provide for recovery from accidents to achieve a safe condition; means to
monitor accident releases required for emergency responses; and the provision
of emergency plans for minimizing the effects of an accident.
Facilities shall be sited and designed in such a manner that gives adequate
protection for the health and safety of the public and for workers, including
those at adjacent facilities, from the effects of potential facility accidents
involving the release of radioactive materials.
Section 15
Facilities shall be designed to facilitate safe deactivation, decommissioning,
and decontamination at end of life.
Facilities shall be designed to facilitate inspections, testing, maintenance,
repair and replacement of safety SSCs as part of an overall reliability,
availability, and maintainability program. The objective is that the facility
can be maintained in a safe state, including during these operations, and in
keeping with the as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) principle for
occupational radiation exposure.
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Facilities shall be designed to keep occupational radiation exposure within
statutory limits and incorporate ALARA principles in design, including design
provisions to facilitate decontamination during the operational period.
Facility process systems shall be designed to minimize the production of
wastes and minimize the mixing of radioactive and non radioactive wastes.
Safety SSCs, identified in accordance with this section shall, commensurate
with the importance of the safety functions performed, be designed: (1) so
that they can perform their safety functions when called upon to operate, and
(2) under a quality assurance program that satisfies 10 CFR 830.120.
4.1.2 Explosives Safety
The safety design of all new DOE explosives facilities and all modifications
to existing explosives facilities shall conform to the DOE explosives safety
requirements established in the DOE Explosives Safety Manual, DOE M 440.1-1.
Facility structural design and construction shall comply with the requirements
of TM5-1300, Structures to Resist the Effects of Accidental Explosions, and
DOE/TIC-11268, A Manual for the Prediction of Blast and Fragment Loading of
Structures. Blast-resistant design for personnel and facility protection
shall be based on the TNT equivalency of the maximum quantity of explosives
and propellants permitted. In accordance with TM5-1300, the TNT equivalency
shall be increased by 20% for design purposes.
4.1.3 Implementation
An Implementation Plan describing the process that will ensure that the
requirements of this section will be invoked during the design and
construction shall be submitted to the DOE Cognizant Secretarial Officer or
his designee in accordance with section 5. Deviations from applicable
requirements shall be appropriately documented and justified.
4.2 Fire Protection
In the performance of this contract, the contractor is to develop, implement
and maintain a comprehensive fire protection program that is sufficient to
meet the DOE's objectives for fire safety, as stated below.
DOE objectives are to establish requirements for a comprehensive fire and
related hazards protection program for facilities sufficient to minimize the
potential for: (1) the occurrence of a fire or related event; (2) a fire that
causes an unacceptable on-site or off-site release of hazardous or
radiological material that will threaten the health and safety of employees,
the public or the environment; (3) vital DOE programs suffering unacceptable
interruptions as a result of fire and related hazards; (4) property losses
from a fire and related events exceeding defined limits established by DOE;
and (5) critical process controls and safety class systems being damaged as a
result of a fire and related events.
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Section 16
DOE facilities, sites and activities (including design and construction) shall
be characterized by a level of fire protection that is sufficient to fulfill
the requirements of the best protected class of industrial risks ("Highly
Protected Risk" or "Improved Risk") and shall be provided protection to
achieve "defense-in-depth." This includes meeting the applicable building
code and National Fire Protection Association Codes and Standards, or
exceeding them (when necessary to meet safety objectives), unless explicit
written relief has been granted by DOE.
4.2.1 General Programmatic Requirements
To meet the above delineated objectives, the contractor shall develop,
implement and maintain an acceptable fire protection program with the
following features:
1. A policy statement that incorporates the requirements of DOE 420,
related DOE directives, and other applicable Federal, state, and local
fire protection requirements. The statement shall affirm management's
commitment to support a level of fire protection and fire suppression
capability sufficient to minimize losses from fire and related hazards
consistent with the best class of protected property in private
industry.
2. Comprehensive, written fire protection criteria that reflect additional
site-specific aspects of the fire protection program, including the
organization, training, and responsibilities of the fire protection
staff, administrative aspects of the fire protection program, and
requirements for the design, installation, operability, inspection,
maintenance, and testing of fire protection systems.
3. Written fire safety procedures governing the use and storage of
combustible, flammable, radioactive, and hazardous materials so as to
minimize the risk from fire. Such procedures shall also exist for fire
protection system impairments and for activities such as smoking, hot
work, safe operation of process equipment, and other fire prevention
measures which contribute to the decrease in fire risk.
4. A system to ensure that the requirements of the DOE fire protection
program are documented and incorporated in the plans and specifications
for all new facilities and for significant modifications of existing
facilities. This includes a documented review by a qualified fire
protection engineer of plans, specifications, procedures, and acceptance
tests.
5. Fire hazards analyses (FHA) for all nuclear facilities, significant new
facilities, and facilities that represent unique or significant fire
safety risks. The FHA shall be developed using a graded approach. The
conclusions of the FHA shall be incorporated in the SAR Accident
Analysis and shall be integrated into design basis and beyond design
basis accident conditions.
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6. Access to a qualified and trained fire protection staff, including a
fire protection engineer(s), technicians and fire fighting personnel to
implement the requirements of this Order.
7. A "baseline" needs assessment that establishes the minimum required
capabilities of site fire fighting forces. This includes minimum
staffing, apparatus, facilities, equipment, training, fire pre-plans,
off-site assistance requirements, and procedures. Information from this
assessment shall be incorporated into the site Emergency Plan.
Section 17
8. Written pre-fire strategies, plans, and standard operating procedures to
enhance the effectiveness of site fire fighting forces, where provided.
Such procedures include those governing the use of fire fighting water
or other neutron moderating materials to suppress fire within or
adjacent to moderation controlled areas. Restrictions on the use of
water shall be fully justified on the basis of criticality safety.
9. A comprehensive, documented fire protection self-assessment program,
which includes all aspects (program and facility) of the fire protection
program. Assessments shall be performed on a regular basis at a
frequency established by DOE.
10. A program to identify, prioritize and monitor the status of fire
protection-related appraisal findings/recommendations until final
resolution is achieved. When final resolution will be significantly
delayed, appropriate interim compensatory measures shall be implemented
to minimize the fire risk.
11. A process for reviewing and recommending approval of fire safety
"equivalencies" and "exemptions" to the DOE Authority Having
Jurisdiction for fire safety.
4.2.2 Fire Protection Design Requirements
DOE elements and contractors shall develop, implement, and maintain a
comprehensive fire protection program for facilities that includes:
1. A reliable water supply of adequate capacity for fire suppression.
2. Noncombustible or fire-resistive construction, where appropriate.
Complete fire-rated barriers that are commensurate with the fire hazard
to isolate hazardous occupancies and to minimize fire spread and loss
potential consistent with defined limits as established by DOE.
3. Automatic fire extinguishing systems throughout all significant
facilities and in all areas subject to loss of safety class systems,
significant life safety hazards, unacceptable program interruption, or
fire loss potential in excess of defined limits.
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4. Redundant fire protection systems in areas where safety class systems
are vulnerable to fire damage and where no redundant safety capability
exists outside of the fire area. In new facilities, redundant safety
class systems shall be in separate fire areas. Redundant fire
protection systems shall also be provided in areas where the maximum
possible fire loss (MPFL) exceeds limits established by DOE.
5. A means to summon the fire department in the event of a fire, such as a
fire alarm signalling system.
6. A means to notify and evacuate building occupants in the event of a
fire, such as a fire detection or fire alarm system and illuminated,
protected egress paths.
7. Physical access and appropriate equipment to facilitate effective
intervention by the fire department, such as an interior standpipe
system(s) in multi-story or large facilities with complex
configurations.
8. A means to prevent the accidental release of significant quantities of
contaminated products of combustion and fire fighting water to the
environment, such as ventilation control and filter systems and curbs
and dikes. Such features would only be necessary if required by the FHA
or SAR in conjunction with other facility or site environmental
protection measures.
9. Fire and related hazards that are unique to DOE and are not addressed by
industry codes and standards shall be protected by isolation,
segregation or use of special fire control systems, such as inert gas or
explosion suppression, as determined by the FHA.
Section 18
10. Fire protection systems shall be designed such that their inadvertent
operation, inactivation or failure of structural stability will not
result in the loss of vital safety functions or inoperability of safety
class systems as determined by the SAR.
The contractor shall direct compliance with these requirements to the extent
incorporated into the contract. Interpretations of the language of this
document in relation to the contract shall be the responsibility of the DOE
Contracting Officer after consultation with the cognizant DOE authority for
fire protection.
4.3 Nuclear Criticality Safety
In the performance of this contract, the contractor is required to establish a
nuclear criticality safety program that (i) applies to fissionable materials
that are produced, processed, stored, transferred, disposed, or otherwise
handled, and (ii) includes the following elements.
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4.3.1 General Requirements
Operations with fissionable materials which pose a criticality accident hazard
shall be evaluated and documented to demonstrate that the operation will be
subcritical under both normal and credible abnormal conditions. Fissionable
material operations shall be conducted in such a manner that consequences to
personnel and property that result from a criticality accident will be
mitigated. No single credible event or failure shall result in a criticality
accident having unmitigated consequences.
The nuclear criticality safety program shall be evaluated and documented and
shall include:
(i) Nuclear criticality safety evaluations for normal and credible
abnormal conditions that document the parameters, limits, and
controls required to ensure that the analyzed conditions are
subcritical.
(ii) Implementation of limits and controls identified by the nuclear
criticality safety evaluations.
(iii) Reviews of operations to ascertain that limits and controls are
being followed and that process conditions have not been altered
such that the applicability of the nuclear criticality safety
evaluation has been compromised.
(iv) Assessment of the need for criticality accident detection devices
and alarm systems, and installation of such equipment where total
risk to personnel will be reduced.
4.3.2 Specific Requirements
Fissionable materials shall be produced, processed, stored, transferred,
disposed, or otherwise handled in such a manner that the probability of a
criticality accident is acceptably low, and, to the extent practical, all
persons, all government, public, and private property, and the environment are
protected from damaging effects and undue hazards that may arise from a
criticality accident.
The Contractor Criticality Safety Program for nuclear facilities shall
include the following requirements:
a. Contractor Criticality Safety Programs (CCSPs) shall apply to
operations involving fissionable materials that pose a criticality
accident hazard. Fissionable nuclides of concern to this
Contractor Requirements Document (CRD) are listed in Table 4.3-1.
The assignment of nuclides to the three columns in Table 4.3-1 is
based on typical conditions. Each contractor organization shall
determine which column is appropriate to the fissionable nuclides
existing in its inventory, whether listed in this table or not
expressly included. Specific technical information concerning
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Section 19
differences in behavior of these nuclides relevant to their
differing abilities to support a self-sustaining nuclear chain
reaction may be found in ANSI/ANS-8.1-1983,R88 and ANSI/ANS-8.15-
1981,R87.
Table 4.3-1. Fissionable Nuclides of Criticality Concern
Nuclide Nuclide Nuclide
92U233* 93Np237 91Pa231**
92U235* 94Pu238 92U232**
94Pu239* 94Pu240 92U234**
94Pu241 96Cm246**
94Pu242 98Cf250**
95Am241 98Cf252**
95Am242m 99Es254**
95Am243
96Cm243
96Cm244
96Cm245
96Cm247
98Cf249
98Cf251
* existing in quantities and forms that lead to the major
focus of nuclear criticality safety
** existing in isolated quantities less than potential minimum
critical mass (per ANSI/ANS-8.15-1981,R87, "Nuclear
Criticality Control of Special Actinide Elements")
b. The basic elements and control parameters of programs for nuclear
criticality safety shall satisfy the requirements of the following
American Nuclear Society's ANSI/ANS nuclear criticality safety
standards:
ANSI/ANS-8.1-1983,R88, "Nuclear Criticality Safety in
Operations with Fissionable Materials Outside Reactors,"
however paragraphs 4.2.2 and 4.2.3, and paragraph 3.3 shall
be followed as modified in section 4.3.2.d of this CRD;
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, "Criticality Accident Alarm System,"
however paragraphs 4.1.2, 4.2.1, and 4.2.2 shall be
followed, as modified in section 4.3.2.c and e of this CRD;
ANSI/ANS-8.5-1986, "Use of Borosilicate-Glass Raschig Rings
as a Neutron Absorber in Solutions of Fissile Material";
ANSI/ANS-8.6-1983,R88, "Safety in Conducting Subcritical
Neutron-Multiplication Measurements in Situ," however
paragraph 5.3 shall be followed as modified in section
4.3.2.f of this CRD;
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ANSI/ANS-8.7-1975,R87, "Guide for Nuclear Criticality Safety
in the Storage of Fissile Materials," however paragraph 5.2
shall be followed as modified by section 4.3.2.c of this
CRD;
ANSI/ANS-8.9-1987, "Nuclear Criticality Safety Criteria for
Steel-Pipe Intersections Containing Aqueous Solutions of
Fissile Materials";
ANSI/ANS-8.10-1983,R88, "Criteria for Nuclear Criticality
Safety Controls in Operations with Shielding and
Confinement";
ANSI/ANS-8.12-1987,R93, "Nuclear Criticality Control and
Safety of Plutonium-Uranium Fuel Mixtures Outside Reactors";
ANSI/ANS-8.15-1981,R87, "Nuclear Criticality Control of
Special Actinide Elements";
ANSI/ANS-8.17-1984,R89, "Criticality Safety Criteria for the
Handling, Storage, and Transportation of LWR Fuel Outside
Reactors," however paragraph 4.3 shall be followed as
modified in section 4.3.2.g of this CRD;
ANSI/ANS-8.19-1984,R89, "Administrative Practices for
Nuclear Criticality Safety;"
ANSI/ANS-8.21-1995, "Use of Fixed Neutron Absorbers in
Nuclear Facilities Outside Reactors."
Revisions to any of the ANSI/ANS standards listed above will place
the Order related to this CRD under immediate review by DOE.
Revised ANSI standards shall not be used unless an exemption is
granted or it is incorporated into a DOE Order.
c. Contractors shall regard all recommendations in the ANSI/ANS
standards listed in paragraph 4.3.2.b. When recommendations are
not implemented, justification shall be documented in a manner
described in the Implementation Plan.
Contractors shall interpret two ANSI/ANS recommendations as
requirements:
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, paragraph 4.1.2, the second sentence of
which becomes, for this CRD, "Where alarm systems are
installed, emergency plans shall be maintained."
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ANSI/ANS-8.7-1975,R87, paragraph 5.2, the last sentence of
which becomes, for this CRD, "The effects of more
significant moderation shall be evaluated."
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d. For DOE application, the following sections of ANSI/ANS-8.1-
1983,R88, "Nuclear Criticality Safety in Operations with
Fissionable Materials Outside Reactors," shall be read as follows:
(1) Application of Double Contingency (paragraph 4.2.2, Double
Contingency). Process designs shall incorporate sufficient
factors of safety to require at least two unlikely,
independent, and concurrent changes in process conditions
before a criticality accident is possible. Protection shall
be provided by either (i) the control of two independent
process parameters (which is the preferred approach, when
practical, to prevent common-mode failure), or (ii) a system
of multiple controls on a single process parameter. The
number of controls required upon a single controlled process
parameter shall be based upon control reliability and any
features that mitigate the consequences of control failure.
In all cases, no single credible event or failure shall
result in the potential for a criticality accident, except
as referenced in the paragraph that follows.
An exception to the application of double contingency, where
single contingency operations are permissible, is presented
in paragraph 5.1 of ANSI/ANS-8.10-1983,R88. This exception
applies to operations with shielding and confinement (e.g.,
hot cells or other shielded facilities).
Double contingency shall be demonstrated by documented
evaluations.
(2) Application of Geometry Control (paragraph 4.2.3, Geometry
Control). Where a significant quantity of fissionable
material is being processed and criticality safety is a
concern, passive engineered controls such as geometry
control shall be considered as a preferred control method.
Where passive engineered control is not feasible, the
preferred order of controls is: active engineered controls,
followed by administrative controls. The double contingency
analysis shall justify the chosen controls. Full advantage
may be taken of any nuclear characteristics of the process
materials and equipment. All dimensions, nuclear
properties, and other features upon which reliance is placed
shall be documented and verified prior to beginning
operations, and control shall be exercised to maintain them.
(3) Application of Definition of "Bias" (paragraph 3.3, Glossary
of Terms). The uncertainty in the bias is interpreted as a
measure of both the accuracy of the calculation and the
precision of the experimental data. It is assumed also to
include (a) the precision of the calculation if the
calculation is stochastic (notwithstanding that such
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precision often can be made as great as desired), and (b)
the accuracy of the experimental data if the experiment is a
mock-up of a referenced system.
Deterministic computer calculations are assumed to have very
high precision, or should be made to have very high
precision. Stochastic computer calculations should be
forced to have appropriately high precision. An experiment
that is not a mock-up is exactly accurate by definition.
e. The requirements in ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986 relating to the needs for an
alarm system (paragraphs 4.2.1 and 4.2.2) are not applicable to
this CRD. For the purpose of this CRD, Criticality Accident Alarm
Systems (CAS) and Criticality Detection Systems (CDS) shall be
required as follows:
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In what follows, 10-6 per year is used as a measure of
credibility, and does not mean that a probabilistic risk
assessment (PRA) has to be performed. Reasonable grounds
for incredibility may be presented on the basis of commonly
accepted engineering judgement.
(1) In those facilities where the mass of fissionable material
exceeds the limits established in paragraph 4.2.1 of
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986 and the probability of a criticality
accident is greater than 10-6 per year (as documented in a
DOE-approved SAR or in the supporting analysis for an SAR),
a CAS conforming to ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986 shall be provided to
cover occupied areas in which the expected dose exceeds 12
rads in free air, where a CAS is defined to include a
criticality accident detection device and a personnel
evacuation alarm.
(2) In those facilities where the mass of fissionable material
exceeds the limits established in paragraph 4.2.1 of
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986 and the probability of a criticality
accident is greater than 10-6 per year, (as documented in a
DOE-approved SAR or in the supporting analysis for an SAR),
but there are no occupied areas in which the expected dose
exceeds 12 rads in free air, a CDS shall be provided, where
a CDS is defined to be an appropriate criticality accident
detection device but without an immediate evacuation alarm.
The CDS response time should be sufficient to allow for
appropriate process-related mitigation and recovery actions.
Appropriate response guidance to minimize personnel exposure
shall be provided by the contractor.
(3) In those facilities where the mass of fissionable material
exceeds the limits established in paragraph 4.2.1 of
ANSI/ANS-8.3-1986, but a criticality accident is determined
to be impossible due to the physical form of the fissionable
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material, or the probability of occurrence is determined to
be less than 10-6 per year (as documented in a DOE-approved
SAR or in the supporting analysis for an SAR, or in other
appropriate documentation), neither a CAS nor a CDS is
required.
Neither a CAS nor a CDS is required for fissionable material
during shipment when packaged in approved shipping
containers, or when packaged in approved shipping containers
awaiting transport provided that no other operation
involving fissionable material not so packaged is permitted
on the shipping dock or in the shipment area.
(4) If a criticality accident is possible wherein a slow (i.e.,
quasistatic) increase in reactivity could occur leading from
subcriticality to supercriticality to self-shutdown without
setting off emplaced criticality alarms, then a CAS might
not be adequate for protection against the consequences of
such an accident.
To aid in protecting workers against the consequences of
slow criticality accidents in facilities where analysis has
shown that slow criticality accidents are credible, CASs
should be supplemented by warning devices such as audible
personnel dosimeters (e.g., pocket chirpers/flashers, or
their equivalents), area radiation monitors, area
dosimeters, or integrating CASs. If these devices are used
solely as criticality warning devices in accordance with
this CRD, they shall be exempt from the calibration
requirement of DOE Order 5480.11 (Radiation Protection for
Occupational Workers, 12-21-88).
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(5) Neither a CAS nor a CDS is required to be installed for
handling or storage of fissionable material when sufficient
shielding exists that is adequate to protect personnel
(e.g., spent fuel pools, hot cells, or burial grounds);
however a means to detect fission product gasses or other
volatile fission products should be provided in occupied
areas immediately adjacent to such shielded areas, except
for systems where no fission products are likely to be
released.
f. For DOE application, in section 5.3 of ANSI/ANS-8.6-1983,R88,
"Safety in Conducting Subcritical Neutron-Multiplication
Measurements in Situ," "i.e." should be read as "e.g."
g. For DOE application, in section 4.3 of ANSI/ANS-8.17-1984,R89,
"Criticality Safety Criteria for the Handling, Storage, and
Transportation of LWR Fuel Outside Reactors," the guidance on
alarm systems is specifically modified in this CRD.
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h. It is acceptable to DOE to follow DOE-STD-3007-93 (Guidelines for
Preparing Criticality Safety Evaluations at Department of Energy
non-Reactor Nuclear Facilities) when preparing Criticality Safety
Evaluations.
For DOE application, the following sections of DOE-STD-3007-93
shall be read as follows:
(1) II. DEFINITIONS. The definition of "BIAS" should be
interpreted as discussed in paragraph 4.3.2.d.(3).
(2) 4.0 METHODOLOGY. When computer neutronics calculations are
used, the type of computing platform should be stated along
with relevant code configuration control information and
code development and user documentation.
i. The contractor shall have a program to detect inadvertent
accumulation of significant quantities of fissionable material.
j. Transportation Requirements for Fissionable Material.
(1) The requirements of this CRD shall apply to all activities
where fissionable material is transferred from one operation
to another within a facility and from one on-site location
to another.
(2) The requirements of DOE O 460.1 (Packaging and
Transportation Safety, 9-27-95) shall be complied with
regarding off-site shipment of fissionable material.
DOE O 460.1 (Packaging and Transportation Safety, 9-27-95)
shall apply to the safe transportation of weapon components
and special assemblies shipped in national defense.
k. Guidelines for Fire Fighting
The fire protection program (Section 4.2.1) shall establish
guidelines for fire fighting within, or adjacent to, moderation
controlled areas. These guidelines shall be based on comparisons
of risks and consequences of a criticality accident with the risks
and consequences of postulated fires for the respective area(s).
Risk and consequence comparisons may be a qualitative evaluation.
The basis for the guidelines shall be documented.
4.4 Natural Phenomena Hazards Mitigation for DOE Facilities
In the performance of this contract, the contractor is required to design,
construct, and/or operate, the facility as specified in the contract so that
the general public, the workers, and the environment are protected from the
impact of all Natural Phenomena Hazards (NPHs). Where no specific
requirements are specified, model building codes or national consensus
industry standards shall be used.
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4.4.1 General Requirements
For hazardous facilities, the contractor shall perform safety analyses that
include the ability of SSCs and personnel to perform their intended safety
functions under the effects of natural phenomena.
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4.4.2 Natural Phenomena Mitigation Design Requirements
The contractor shall:
1. Design, construct, and/or operate, the facility as specified in the
contract so that SSCs will withstand the effects of natural phenomena as
necessary to ensure the confinement of hazardous material, the operation
of essential facilities, the protection of government property, and the
protection of life safety for occupants of DOE buildings.
2. Consider potential damage and failure of SSCs due to both direct and
indirect natural phenomena effects, including common cause effects and
interactions from failures of other SSCs.
3. Address seismic requirements of Executive Order 12699.
4. For new facilities the contractor shall meet the general requirements of
section 4.4.1 and requirements 1, 2, and 3 of section 4.4.2.
5. For additions and major modifications of existing facilities the
contractor shall meet the general requirements of section 4.4.1 and
requirements 1, 2, and 3 of section 4.4.2 and ensure that the
modifications do not degrade the performance of existing SSCs to the
extent that they will not withstand the effects of natural phenomena as
necessary to ensure the confinement of hazardous material, the operation
of essential facilities, the protection of government property, and the
protection of life safety for occupants of DOE buildings.
4.4.3 Evaluation and Upgrade of Existing DOE Facilities
For existing DOE facilities the contractor shall:
1. Evaluate the SSCs against the general requirements of section 4.4.1 and
requirements 1 and 2 of section 4.4.2 when the following circumstances
apply:
(a) There is a significant degradation in the safety basis for
the facility.
(b) Address seismic requirements of Executive Order 12941.
2. If any of the conditions in requirement 5 of section 4.4.2 are
satisfied, then the contractor/operator shall establish a plan for
evaluating the affected SSCs. The plan shall incorporate a schedule for
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evaluation taking into account programmatic mission considerations and
the safety significance of the potential failure of SSCs due to natural
phenomena.
3. If the evaluation of existing SSCs identifies natural phenomena
mitigation deficiencies, the contractor/operator shall establish an
upgrade plan for the affected SSCs. The upgrade plan shall incorporate
a prioritized schedule for upgrading the SSCs. The upgrade plan shall
address possible time or funding constraints as well as programmatic
mission considerations.
4.4.4 Natural Phenomena Hazards Assessment
The contractor/operator shall:
Base the design and evaluation of facilities to withstand natural phenomena on
an assessment of the likelihood of future natural phenomena occurrences. The
natural phenomena hazards assessment shall be conducted commensurate with a
graded approach and commensurate with the potential hazard of the facility.
For new sites the contractor/operator shall:
1. Conduct a natural phenomena hazards assessment commensurate with a
graded approach to the facility.
2. Consider the consequences of all types of natural phenomena hazards in
site planning.
For existing sites the contractor/operator shall:
1. Review and update the natural phenomena hazards assessments, as
necessary, if there are significant changes in natural phenomena
hazards assessment methodology or site-specific information.
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2. Conduct a review of the natural phenomena hazards assessment at least
every 10 years. The review shall include recommendations to DOE on the
need for updating the existing natural phenomena hazards assessments
based on identification of any significant changes in methods or data.
4.4.5 Natural Phenomena Detection
For facilities or sites with hazardous materials, the contractor/operator
shall provide instrumentation or other means to detect and record the
occurrence and severity of seismic events.
4.4.6 Post-Natural Phenomena Procedures
For facilities or sites with hazardous materials contractor/operator shall
provide and use procedures that include, inspecting the facility for damage
caused by severe natural phenomena, and placing the facility into a safe
configuration when such damage has occurred.
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5.0 Implementation Plan
Contractors shall submit an Implementation Plan to DOE to implement the above
requirements. The Implementation Plan shall be submitted after the
requirements are incorporated into the applicable contract and shall be
developed with an integrated safety review process commensurate with the
hazards.
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