Overview of the sandia national laboratories joint US/russia surety pogram

摘要

Sandia National Laboratories has initiated many joint research and development projects with the two premier Russian nuclear laboratories, VNIIEF and VNIITF. One of the areas in which singificant technical exchange is taking place is in the relam of system surety. Acitivities include methodology development, processes, accidient enironment analyses and testing, accident databases, assessments, and product design. The result of usch efforts could reduce the risk of systems to incur accidents or incidents resulting in high consequences to the public. This paper will provide an overview of the Andia surety program with the Russian institutes. Specific projects will be discussed in order to demonstrate this scope. The extension of the Sandia surety initiatives to other government a nd industry organizations will be described. This will include the current status of a joint Sandia/VNIIEF International Surety Center for Energy Intensive and High Consequence Systems and Infrastructures.