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Type:JNMM
Volume:46
Issue:4
Author(s):Mark L. Maeillo
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Can the insider threat experience of non-nuclear industries and incidents inform the insider threat planning of nuclear security operations…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ioanna Iliopulos, Alex Bednarek
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The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) has been working with various entities throughout the State of California to bring awareness to the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Aaron Hurst, Lee Bernstein
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Gamma-ray signatures from neutron capture and inelastic scattering reactions provide unambiguous information on the isotopes present in an…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Marissa Hernandez, Manford Ayers
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Blood Irradiators are often used to irradiate blood and blood components prior to transfusion to prevent the proliferation of certain types…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brian Anderson, Marie C. Kirkegaard, Andrew Miskowiec
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Better characterization of uranium compounds related to the nuclear fuel cycle is a key goal of the nuclear forensics community.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hui Zhang
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China has not declared officially that it has ended HEU and plutonium production for weapons. Based on newly available Chinese public…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Heidi A. Smartt, Zoe N. Gastelum, Laura Matzen, Mallory C. Stites
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While conducting in-field safeguards verification activities, international nuclear safeguards inspectors are confronted with information-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dmitry Kovchegin, Nickolas Roth
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While secrecy is important component of a nuclear security, availability of open information on the status of nuclear security is important…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles Q. Little, Randy C. Brost, James R. Wade
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Devices for recording a 3D snapshot of a scene are commercially available, and evolving rapidly. These devices can simultaneously collect…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joshua Rutkowski
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States with additional protocols (1) to comprehensive safeguards agreements in force are obligated to submit regular declarations of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Borella, K. van der Meer, Pierre-Etienne Labeau, R. Rossa
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Several non-destructive assay (NDA) techniques are being developed for the measurement of spent nuclear fuel during a safeguards inspection…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul Ebel, Igor Khripunov, Khairul Khairul, Terry Kuykendall
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The Center for Security Culture and Assessment (CSCA) within the Indonesia National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN) is a recognized world…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jacqueline Kempfer
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Pursuing nuclear energy for the first time is a monumental challenge. Financing construction, establishing a competent regulatory authority…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert J. Finch, Heidi A. Smartt, Risa Haddal, Dina Chernikova
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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s expert group on Application of Safeguards to Repositories (IAEA/ASTOR) recently summarized the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Martyn Swinhoe, David P. Broughton
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Neutron-based measurement of the 235U mass and enrichment in UF6 product cylinders at uranium enrichment plants have the potential to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.Matthew Durham
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Muons are the most penetrating radiographic probe that exists today. These elementary particles possess a unique combination of physical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bradley M. Loftin, Glenn Abramczyk, John S. Bellamy, Charles A. McKeel, Donald J. Trapp
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Type B Radioactive Material Packaging are required by federal regulation to provide containment of the radioactive materials being…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark P. Croce, Peter Mason, Michael Brisson, Joseph Giaquinto, Kayron Rogers
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Due to several factors, availability of certified reference materials (CRM) for laboratory use to support accountancy, safeguards, and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jose Miguel Roncero-Martin, Randall L. Beatty
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Radioactive sources are used throughout the world, and their beneficial uses are many. Sources are at the core of many applications in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander Glaser, Tamara Patton
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Researchers at UNIDIR have recently proposed a fundamentally new approach to nuclear arms-control verification, dubbed “deferred…