About the Bazley Institute

The Bazley Institute of Criticality Safety was founded in 1999 to aid in the dissemination of criticality safety information and to provide a learning mechanism for individuals determined to improve their and the current state of criticality safety. It's founders are James J. Bazley and Professor "X", practioneers of the art of nuclear criticality safety. To quote Francis Alcorn, a well known and recognized figure in the field, criticality safety is the art of NOT building a nuclear reactor without shielding, heat removal, and control.

The Institute went online to the web in 2000, experienced a low in activity from 2002 through 2006, and was revamped in 2007.

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About James J. Bazley

Jim Bazley has twenty-two years experience in the nuclear criticality safety discipline. He has worked in the private and government workforces, focusing primarily in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulated nuclear industries. Jim Bazley is a member of the American National Standards Institute/American Nuclear Society (ANSI/ANS) 8.7 and 8.22 Standards Workgroups.

He has supported the criticality safety programs for several facilities and sites including:

• Babcock and Wilcox (under both the Commercial Nuclear Fuel Plant, now Framatome Cogema Fuels, a LEU fuel fabricator, and the Naval Nuclear Fuel Division, now BWX Technologies, an HEU fuel fabricator),
• DOE Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (now the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory),
• Nuclear Fuel Services (a HEU fuel fabricator),
• MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant,
• Both the Paducah and Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plants (supporting both DOE and USEC operations),
• DOE K-25 Site (East Tennessee Technology Park) BNFL 3-Building D&D Project, and
• DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory Y-12 Site,
• DOE Hanford Site (under contract to Fluor Hanford),
• DOE Rocky Flats Plant and the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site.

He has performed and generated a large number of criticality analyses. He has used consensus national standards, handbook and experimental data, and computer codes including the Standardized Computer Analysis for Licensing Evaluations (SCALE) code package, which includes the Criticality Safety Analysis Sequences (CSAS) with KENO-IV, -V.a, and -VI and BONAMI, NITAWL-II, and XSDRNPM and stand-alone versions of the above code; and ORIGEN2; ANISN; MCNP; radiation shielding and radiological assessment computer codes, ISOSHLD, RSAC, and Microshieldä; and the Probabilistic Risk Analysis (PRA) code, IRRAS.

He has worked as a project manager and auditor and has provided engineering guidance in graded-approach safety analysis, integrated safety analysis, environmental assessments, unreviewed safety question screening, Operational Safety Requirement/Technical Safety Requirements (OSR/TSR) reviews, and human factors and fault tree analysis. He has assisted in accident investigations and operational readiness reviews. He has worked as a technical interface to contractors, employees, government officials, members and staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, commissioners and staff of the NRC, and employees and contractors of the DOE. Jim Bazley is known and respected within the criticality safety community.

Professor "X"

This information has been deleted at the request of Professor "X".

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