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3 QMU and the Annual Assessment Review
3 QMU and the Annual Assessment Review
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The annual assessment reviews serve as the means for the national security laboratories (LANL, LLNL, SNL) to communicate the assessed performance of the stockpile and whether to recommend a resumption of nuclear weapons testing.
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The annual assessment reviews include discussions of issues involved in applying QMU and the different views of the national security laboratories where improvements are needed. In the 2007 annual assessment, uncertainty bands were developed using QMU formalism, whereas previously the labs had relied primarily on expert judgment.
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Recommendation 2-1. The national security laboratories should continue to expand the application of QMU in annual assessments; The B53 is no longer in the stockpile.
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PEER REVIEW OPPORTUNITIES The annual assessment process today begins at the responsible national security laboratories (LANL, LLNL, Sandia-Livermore, and SandiaAlbuquerque) , with detailed analysis by the design and engineering team, followed by internal review at several levels, including review by a red team that brings in members from the other national security labs and from outside the labs.
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This peer review should not dilute the three national security laboratories' accountability for the annual assessment reviews.
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