Training Course:
Quality Assurance for Radioactive Material Packaging

June 24-26, 2008

Description:

The purpose of the course is to provide quality assurance (QA) training and practical experience for U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) personnel and contractors who are required to develop and implement a QA plan or prepare the QA chapter of a Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP) for the control of design, fabrication, assembly, testing, maintenance, repair, modification, and use of radioactive material packaging. The course begins with instructions concerning basic QA principles and concepts and quickly advances to packaging-specific information. The training course reviews applicable QA requirements from DOE Orders, federal regulations, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulatory Guides. The training course includes both lecture and actual problem sessions that apply a graded approach to selected QA elements from Subpart H of 10 CFR Part 71. Participants will gain experience from the development of a partial packaging-specific QA chapter for a SARP by selecting appropriate QA requirements from Subpart H of 10 CFR Part 71 and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) NQA-1 for Type B and fissile material packaging.

Staff:

Guest Lecturers:

Robert Temps, Senior Safety Inspector
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Julio Pardo, Principal QA Engineer
Washington Savannah River Company

Agenda:

Day 1: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Day 2: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Day 3: 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon

This course was last offered in March 2007 for the 33^rd time. Course highlights include lectures on the following:

• Review of DOE QA requirements for DOE Packaging Orders, federal regulations, NRC Regulatory Guides, and associated standards
  • DOE O 460.1B
  • 10 CFR Part 71
  • 49 CFR Part 173
  • NRC Regulatory Guide 7.10
  • ASME NQA-1
• Demonstrate the graded QA approach for transportation packaging
• NRC QA audits/inspections and DOE Yucca Mountain QA program plan

Course Materials:

All participants of this course will receive a copy of the course instruction visuals based on the following references:

• 10 CFR Part 71 - Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material
• 49 CFR Part 173 - Shippers–General Requirements for Shipments and Packagings
• DOE O 460.1B - Packaging and Transportation Safety
• NRC Regulatory Guide 7.10 - Establishing Quality Assurance Programs for Packaging Used in the Transport of Radioactive Material
• ASME NQA-1 - Quality Assurance Program Requirements for Nuclear Facilities

Participants will also receive a Certificate of Completion of the QA Training Course.

Register: Fill out the online registration page.