Collaborative development of a US/russia safety information center datbase

摘要

One of the major outgrowths resulting from the collapse of the former Soviet Union (FSU) has been an increase in technical informationexchange and dialgoue between the Russian and American nuclear weapons laboratories. One area of such discussions is concerned with the safety of low probability, high consequence systems and operations. In order to turther the understanding between the respective institutes in this important area, a collaborative effort has been established between Sandia Nationa Laboratories and the two premier Russian nuclear weapons laboratories, Arzamas-16 and Chelyabinsk-70, in which a common database has been developed which contains safety information provided by all three laboratories. More than 1200 documents have been placed by the three institutes into this dabaase. This paper describes the details of this data-base, including the types of safety information being stored.