WPC Webinar Series

WPC Webinar Series

Since March 2021 WPC have been running Continued Professional Development sessions as webinars. So far these have included:

1. WPC: History, Objectives,  Activities, Challenges and Opportunities (Fred Winstanley, Sellafield Ltd) - Presentation  

2. An Overview of Geological Disposal (Liam Payne, RWM)

3. Criticality Safety - It's Not All Physics (Howard Greenwood, NNL)

4. Criticality Safety Inspections (Andrew Brown, Westinghouse Springfields Fuels Ltd) - Presentation

5. Aspects of Criticality Handbooks (Derek Putley) - Presentation

6. An Overview of 'Hand Methods' in Criticality Safety Assessment (Sam Darby, ONR) - Presentation

7. Nuclear Data in Criticality Codes (Tim Ware, Jacobs) - Presentation

8. ALARP - As Straight-Forward As It Sounds? (Deb Hill, NNL) - Presentation

9. An Introduction to Critical Experiments (Catherine Percher, LLNL, USA) - Presentation

10. A Short History of AWE (Dr Richard Moore, AWE)

11. An Introduction to Cyclone - Monte Carlo Data Processing and Validation (Stewart Hay, Cerberus Nuclear) - Presentation

12. An Overview of the U-Battery Advanced Modular Reactor (Mark Savage, Urenco)

13. Criticality Accidents Through the Lens of Behavioural Economics (Brittany Williamson, Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility, USA) - Presentation

14. Personal Experience of the 1999 Tokaimura Criticality, Dr Keith Franklin MBE, National Nuclear Laboratory 

15. Nuclear Data at AWE (James Benstead, AWE) - Presentation

16. Lessons Learned from Early Criticality Accidents at Los Alamos', Dick Malenfant (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory - retired - Presentation

17. Utilisation of Burn Up Credit to Support AGR Spent Fuel Storage, Dr James Ryan, Sellafield Ltd - Presentation

18. ONR Cross-Sites Criticality Inspection Series, Adam Nichols, Office for Nuclear Regulation - Presentation

19. An Introduction to Criticality Emergency Planning, Dave Kirkwood (Sellafield Ltd) - Presentation

20. Emergency Planning and Response on a Nuclear Licensed Site and Beyond , Andrew Brown, Westinghouse Springfields Fuels Limited - Presentation

21. Some French Thoughts on Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS), Gregory Caplin, Orano - Presentation

22. Lessons Learned - The Importance of Being a Wise Person, Dr Deborah Hill, National Nuclear Laboratory

23. Application of Criticality Safety to Transport, Charlotte Davis, Nuclear Transport Solutions  - Presentation

24. SRNS Criticality Safety Missions Overview, Tracy Stover

25. The Deimos Critical Experiment, an Advanced Reactor Testbed, Theresa Cutler, National Criticality Experiments Research Facility (NCERC), US