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MONARCH Completion Report; REBOUND Dry Runs and MONARCH B Test Control Center Exercise
Published by U. S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Las Vegas, NV, 1996
First Edition
Spiral bound. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Various paginations (Estimated to be about 225 pages), Tabbed sections. Only about 75 names on the Distribution list. Few of these copies have likely survived. MONARCH was conducted at the Nevada Test Site by the Nuclear Test Organization. Two dry runs conduction in preparation for REBOUND, a planned Los Alamos National Laboratory subcritical experiment. There was an Emplacement Dry Run and a Systems Dry Run. MONARCH provided the opportunity to review and test readiness resources and capabilities. Organizations involved included DOE Nevada Operations Office, Los Alamos, Sandia, Bechtel Nevada, NOAA, EPA, and Wackenhut Services. There is a substantive Lessons Learned section. This document lists the Checklists used during the conduct of Monarch (Annex I). Other Annexes include Test Controller's Operations, Permits and Authorizations, LANL As-Built Containment Briefing, References, and Acronyms/Abbreviations. A subgroup of JASON, reviewed the first two sub-critical experiments (SCEs) now planned, called Holog and Rebound, to be performed underground at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The subgroup concluded that: 1) They will add valuable scientific information for understanding physical properties of plutonium (Pu) under conditions relevant to the performance of primaries of nuclear weapons; 2) For these particular experiments, no conceivable scenario will lead to criticality. Therefore these experiments are consistent with the provisions of the CTBT signed by President Clinton on September 24, 1996; and 3) While the peer review process was adequate for these two tests, we are not satisfied that the process is adequate as a model for future experiments. While there is no question that US stockpile nuclear weapons would function today as designed, there are gaps in the scientific understanding of their performance. The Science Based Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program (SBSSMP) is charged to fill these gaps.
