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International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) Working Group

ICSBEP Handbook

The work of the ICSBEP is documented as an International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments. Currently, the handbook spans nearly 65,000 pages and contains 549 evaluations representing 4708 critical, near-critical, or subcritical configurations, 24 criticality alarm placement/shielding configurations with multiple dose points for each, and 200 configurations that have been categorised as fundamental physics measurements that are relevant to criticality safety applications. The handbook is intended for use by criticality safety analysts to perform necessary validations of their calculational techniques and is expected to be a valuable tool for decades to come.

Requesting the ICSBEP Handbook

The DVD may be obtained free of charge by completing an online order form. By submitting this form requesters agree not to distribute the International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments to individuals outside their own organisation in any form, including making the handbook available on the internet or any other location and/or network accessible electronically outside the requester's organisation. A new edition was released in September 2012.

ICSBEP Handbook request form (DVD or on-line)

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Last reviewed: 17 January 2013