Author: Matthew Jude EganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Stewardship Claim at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Author: Matthew Jude EganUC Berkeley Doctoral Dissertation
Author: Matthew Jude EganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After a series of safety accidents in the mid-1990s, the Department of Energy via Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) claimed publicly that it could be the nation's "nuclear stockpile steward" ("the Stewardship Claim"). The Laboratory did not define "stewardship" or what being a steward would require. This project begins by using knowledge from political and organization theory to help define what "stewardship" in the context of managing long-lived and highly hazardous materials would mean to a well-informed public, if it knew what to ask. Institutional Stewardship requires that such an organization be highly reliable (High Reliability), now and for the foreseeable future (Constancy), and inspire public trust and confidence. Institutional stewardship, by this definition, requires tremendous resources and an equivalent devotion to safety and security as to productivity. This study shows that legal and organizational structural problems at the higher levels of the DOE and LANL hierarchies produced the root causes of many safety and security accidents at LANL during the 1990s. These accidents produced tremendous unwanted public attention. The organization responded with the Stewardship Claim, which included massive changes to its legal and organizational structures designed to prevent accidents. However, though the research in this study showed that the top of the hierarchy was the largest single location of accident root causes, most of the changes to the legal and organizational structures focused on the lowest "human operator" level of the hierarchy. Thus, safety and security accidents persisted even after LANL attempted to become the nation's nuclear stockpile steward. Systemic causes of accidents can be understood by examining patterns shared between failures, something LANL did not do until it had been blaming nearly a decade of systems accidents on human operators. While, accidents of some sort are often "normal" in complex sociotechnical systems, properly designed legal regimes and organizational structures, can make it more likely that an organization will meet the demands required by institutional stewardship.
Government and Industry Meet to Discuss Environmental Stewardship and Economic Development
Author: Stockpile Stewardship
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Heritage of Science" is a short video that highlights the Stockpile Stewardship program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Stockpile Stewardship was conceived in the early 1990s as a national science-based program that could assure the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without the need for full-scale underground nuclear testing. This video was produced by Los Alamos National Laboratory for screening at the Lab's Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, NM and is narrated by science correspondent Miles O'Brien.
Continued Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory
Author: Stockpile Stewardship at Los Alamos(U).
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Stockpile stewardship is the retention of nuclear weapons in the stockpile beyond their original design life. These older weapons have potential changes inconsistent with the original design intent and military specifications. The Stockpile Stewardship Program requires us to develop high-fidelity, physics-based capabilities to predict, assess, certify and design nuclear weapons without conducting a nuclear test. Each year, the Lab Directors are required to provide an assessment of the safety, security, and reliability our stockpile to the President of the United States. This includes assessing whether a need to return to testing exists. This is a talk to provide an overview of Stockpile Stewardship's scientific requirements and how stewardship has changed in the absence of nuclear testing. The talk is adapted from an HQ talk to the War college, and historical unclassified talks on weapon's physics.
Underpinning Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship with LANSCE.
Author: Review of the University of California's management contract for Los Alamos National Laboratory
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Author: 
Author: