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In 1996 we published our first newsletter, Critical Comments, detailing the offerings and activities of the Nuclear Criticality Safety Group (NCSG) at the UNM. Before the newsletter, we sent brochures; at least one describing the 5 day short course and another describing any special workshops being offered. We consolidated that information in Critical Comments. Over the last 12 years, many of you received information about these courses in the annual edition of Critical Comments.
The NCSG has provided workshops in Albuquerque and on-site at Oak Ridge, INL, Rocky Flats, and Sellafield, UK. We have also done research in the areas of computational methods, minimum critical mass, spent fuel storage, and reactor kinetics. In addition, many of you have read and used our primers on MCNP, DANTSYS, and KENO. Over the course of the years, this work was done by a small number of graduate and undergraduate students at UNM. The members change frequently as they graduate and get jobs in the nuclear industry. The two semi-permanent members of the NCSG are Cheryl Brozena who is responsible for our course arrangements and Dr. Bob, who is nominally in charge of, but not necessarily in control of the Group.
This website is to keep you up to date on the Group, but not to replace Critical Comments. The NCSG is here, interested, and capable of doing many things beyond putting on the 5 day short course (which according to the 1300+ past attendees we do quite well). My email is busch@unm.edu and my fax is (505) 277-5433. We are always interested in your ideas for future workshops, and we have the flexibility to do most of our activities anywhere in the world. In fact, Cheryl wants me to mention that Europe and Japan of our particular interest to us.
Bob Busch, Director Nuclear Criticality Safety Group at UNM.
