Turning Points in Containment of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Underground Nuclear Tests

Hudson, B C ; Rambo, J T ; Pawloski, G A ; Burkhard, N R

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Containment;    98 Nuclear Disarmament, Safeguards, And Physical Protection;    Personnel;    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;    58 Geosciences;   

DOI  :  10.2172/900182
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-226342
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  900182

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Sometime in 1987 Billy Hudson, a long-time LLNL Containment Scientist and the Task Leader for Containment Diagnostics, put together a presentation entitled ''Turning Points in Containment''. This presentation identifies challenges, lessons learned, and changes made in containment practice over a 20-year period, from 1967-1987. Besides providing a significant historical summary, the presentation is valuable as we maintain a position of readiness 14 years after the last underground nuclear detonation. It is particularly valuable to personnel who are new to the program and have no first-hand experience in implementing underground nuclear test containment for actual tests. We now view this material as a unique containment summary with timeless importance. We envision this report to be particularly useful to new Containment Program members and anyone interested in the history of underground nuclear test containment practices. We believe that the Barnwell test, detonated in 1989, would have been added to this summary if Billy Hudson had the opportunity to update the presentation. We have chosen to add a few slides to the end of the original presentation to describe the issues and lessons learned from Barnwell.