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The systematic process of checking whether a product or service being developed is meeting specified requirements. This typically involves the application of the ASME Standard NQA-1, Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications and/or DOE Order DOE O 414.1D, Quality Assurance to DOE projects, systems and equipment.
Correspondence, reports and recommendations related to quality assurance (QA) program reviews, QA of construction project reviews, review of DOE directives addressing QA, and QA concerns associated with other reviews.
Radiological protection focuses on the protection of people from harmful effects of exposure to ionizing radiation.
Correspondence, reports, and recommendations related to the safety and adequacy of radiological protection systems at defense nuclear facilities.
The Board has limited oversight of research reactors associated with defense nuclear material. The primary facility is the Annular Core Research Reactor facility located at Sandia National Laboratories. This equipment allows Sandia researchers to subject various test objects to a mixed photon and neutron irradiation environment featuring either a very rapid pulse rate or a long-term, steady-state rate.
Correspondence, reports and recommendations related to Annular Core Research Reactor reviews including associated construction projects, DOE safety directive reviews, and observations of the safety of experiment planning, preparations and conduct.
The analysis of hazards at a facility during its design, construction, and operation, and the selection of operating and engineering controls.
Correspondence, reports, and recommendations related to the safety analysis at defense nuclear facilities.
Safety culture is an organization’s values and behaviors modeled by its leaders and internalized by its members, which serve to make safe performance of work the overriding priority to protect the workers, the public, and the environment.
Correspondence, reports, and recommendations related to the safety culture at DOE headquarters and defense nuclear facilities.
Safety oversight identifies the infrastructure and processes used to ensure activities are designed, constructed, and operated safely.
Correspondence, reports, and recommendations related to review of DOE nuclear safety oversight including DOE headquarters and field elements oversight requirements and processes.