AGENDA

May 3-5, 2011

SNL Technical Area I, Building 810, Auditorium
Tuesday, May 3
Time / Presentation / Speaker
7:30 – 8:15 / Registration
8:15 – 8:30 / Administrative Remarks
Welcome and Announcements / Janet Philippsen, SNL
Dan Bruns NESD Division Director, NA-121.1
8:30 – 9:00 / Keynote Address / Steve Goodrum NA-12 and/or Kevin Greenaugh, NA-12
9:00 – 9:45 / Last Year’s NES Evaluation Highlights / NA-121.1 Staff (Bruns, Chambers, Fong, Fingerlos, Kirby, Thompson)
9:45 – 10:15 / Guidance on Incomplete OSR Observations / NA-121.1 - Bill Pecsok
10:15 / Break
10:30 – 11:00 / DUURT information / Fred Trussell, SNL
11:00 – 11:30 / Last SS-21 NESS – Project Team Perspective / Gabe Pugh, NA-122.x
11:30 – 12:00 / Last Year’s NES Evaluation Highlights (continued) / NA-121.1 Staff (Bruns, Chambers, Fong, Fingerlos, Kirby, Thompson)
12:00 / Lunch
1:00– 2:00 / Keynote Address
  • Catastrophic Events and the Law: Sorting out the Legal Morass
**Read Abstract on page 3 of agenda****** / Judge Roderick Kennedy
New Mexico Court of Appeals
2:00 – 2:30 / ***Potential Presentation on Governance or “One NNSA” / TBD
2:00–2:30 / STA Observations / Tim Neal, NA-12/STAs
2:30 / Break
2:45 – 3:15 / HF Observations from NES Evaluation Participation / Judi See, SNL
3:15 – 3:45 / Historical Picture of Human Factors Across the Complex / Nathan Brannon, SNL
3:45 / Break
4:00 – 4:30 / Nuclear Safety R&D / Angela Chambers, NA-121.1
4:30 – 4:45 / CAS Shadow Assessments at Pantex / Angela Chambers, Leroy Thompson, John Kirby NA-121.1
Wednesday, May 4
Time / Presentation / Speaker
8:00 – 8:05 / Administrative Remarks
8:05 – 8:45 / Storm Incident and Recovery Operations / Steve Young, B&W Pantex
8:45 – 9:15 / Design of Isolation Stand Rated for Lightning in High Humidity and Flooding / Kraig Hunt, B&W Pantex
9:15 / Break
9:30 – 10:00 / Inductance of Penetration in Faraday Cages / Mike Ong, Constantine Hrousis, LLNL
10:00 – 11:00 / Understanding and Managing Risk in Security Systems for the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex / Chris Whipple, STA
11:00– 11:30 / Unique Signal Development / Jeff Brewer, Ken Chen, John Darby, SNL
11:30 / Lunch
12:30 – 1:00 / Revisiting the Bell-Longmire Stochastic Theory of Neutron Populations / Prof. Anil Prinja, UNM
1:00 – 1:30 / Derivation of Souto-Sayer-Canada Curve and its Application to Nuclear Detonation Safety / Francisco Souto
1:30 / Break
1:45 – 2:15 / Bayesian Analysis Support for B61 90-Day Study / Christine Treml, LANL
2:15 – 3:15 / B61 LEP 6.2/6.2A Study Overview / Todd Hinnerichs, SNL , Tommy Morris, LANL
3:15 / Break
3:30 – 4:00 / B61 LEP Direct Optical Initiation / Dan Borovina, LANL
4:00 – 4:30 / Nuclear Detonation Safety Assessment for the B61 LEP / Tommy Morris, LANL
Thursday, May 5
Time / Presentation / Speaker
8:00 – 8:05 / Administrative Remarks
8:05 – 8:30 / HE Safety Assessment for the B61 / Joe Martinez, LANL
8:30 – 9:00 / Low Speed Impact Testing / Steve Chidester, LLNL
9:00 – 9:30 / 1D, 2-D, Thermal Cook-off / Gary Parker, LANL
9:30 / Break
9:50 – 10:25 / HE Thermal Response / Joe Tringe, LLNL
10:25 – 11:00 / Microwave Sensitization / Lee Perry, LANL
11:00 / Lunch
12:15 – 1:15 / Inherent Multipoint Safety and Intrinsic Use Control for the Next Generation of Nuclear Weapons / Mark M. Hart, LLNL
1:15 – 2:00 / Sierra NV Explosion, Causes, Results, Insights / Jim Fingerlos, NA-121.1
2:00 / Break
2:20 – 2:50 / Safety Considerations Between DOE Ground and USAF Air Transportation / Nazir Khalil, Larry Luna, SNL
2:50– 3:15 / History of One-Point Safety / Jim Fingerlos, NA-121.1
3:15 – 3:30 / One-Point Safety and the B53 / Jim Fingerlos, NA-121.1
3:30 / Adjourn Conference
Judge Kennedy’sAbstract
:
A catastrophic event, such as a nuclear accident or nuclear terrorist action, will require strong, rapid, and decisive actions by individuals, private companies, and public agencies to protect lives, health, and welfare. These actions, which may in some cases knowingly violate or “stretch” applicable laws, will be affected by perceptions of current laws and judgments as to their applicability, and will often require that their legality/appropriateness be sorted out in a court of law well after the fact. Incidents from the Civil War that saw a suspension of Habeas Corpus to 9/11 that affected both public involvement in private liability and the Fourth Amendment's guarantees concerning legal standards for seizing and detaining individuals have perhaps changed our acceptance level of civil liberty infringement by the state. In this talk, Judge Kennedy will explore issues concerning the way a catastrophic nuclear incident might have an impact on the court system, the way the law resolves disputes concerning liability, as well as aspects of how cataclysmic public upheaval might affect civil liberties. The context of a recent report on this subject released by the American Bar Association will also be discussed.