Internal Assessments at Argonne Accelerator Facilities

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Internal Assessments at Argonne Accelerator
Facilities

• S.W. Butala
• Presented at the DOE Accelerator Safety Workshop
  - BNL
• August 19, 2009

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Argonne Accelerator Facilities

• Advanced Photon Source (APS)
• ATLAS (Physics Division)
• Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA)
• 3 MeV Van de Graaff (CSE)
• 20 MeV high current linac (CSE)
• 2 MeV Van de Graaff (DEP)
• MSD accelerator facility
• IPNS (shutdown December 2007)
• 5 MeV Dynamitron (shutdown - Physics Div.)

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Accelerator Internal Assessments

• Accelerator Safety Review Committee (ASRC)
• Compliance, Oversight, Assessments Group (COA)
• Facility self assessments

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ARSC Assessment Findings 04/05
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ARSC Assessment Findings 06/07
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ARSC Assessment Findings 08/09
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Recent COA Assessments

• April 2009 - Work Planning Control APS
• SADs not reviewed annually, per ASPM
• LOTO of fire protection valves
• Fire doors propped open
• April 2009 - Work Planning Control Physics
  (ATLAS)
• SADs not reviewed annually, per ASPM
• ATLAS conduct of operations matrix not approved
  by DOE
• Inadequate crane inspections