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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Simon, Agbo S. Arome, Abdulsamat Asuku, Y.A. Ahmed
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Understanding the behaviour of the operational parameters of nuclear reactors allow the development of improved analytical models to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Benjamin McDonald, Karen A. Miller, Jonathan A. Kulisek, MA Zalavadia, Robert K. Weinmann-Smith
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In recent years, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has pursued innovative techniques and an integrated suite of safeguards…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alessandro Borella, G. Spencer Marzari, K. van der Meer
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Amongst the Non-Destructive Assay methods for spent fuel verifications being studied at the Belgian nuclear research centre, SCK•CEN, the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Maz Hussein
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The UK nuclear decommissioning priority is to reduce risk and hazard and to deliver the clean-up mission cost effectively. This is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Kim Lukes, Margaret Cervera, Gentry Hearn
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The United States (U.S.) framework for security and control of radioactive sources requires multijurisdictional coordination. Specifically…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Imre Pázsit, Lénárd Pál
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In passive non-destructive assay, estimation of sample parameters is traditionally based on multiplicity counting using neutron detectors…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Toshiari Saegusa, Koji Shirai, Hirofumi Takeda, Masumi Wataru, Kosuke NAMBA
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Spent fuel was assumed to be stored at away from reactor by dual purpose metal casks. These casks will be transported from nuclear power…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dmitry Kovchegin, Elena Perepechaeva
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Development of national regulations supporting nuclear materials control and accounting and physical protection is important part of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. R. Grogan, P. Schwalbach, A. Favalli, H. Trellue, S.J. Tobin, Peter Jansson, Stefano Vaccaro, V. Mozin, Anders Sjöland, Duc Vo, H. Liljenfeldt
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A project to research the application of non-destructive assay (NDA) to spent fuel assemblies is underway among a team comprised of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Moritz Kütt, Malte Göttsche
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Safeguards applications, control of fissile materials and warhead verification all rely or will likely rely to a certain extent on neutron…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Massey, Rico Chandra, Yinong Liang
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Time-of-flight measurements were performed to determine the 4He pressurized gas fast neutron detectors response function and the the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander Barzilov, Brittany Morgan
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Neutron detection technologies are at the forefront of the effort to support objectives of the interdiction, search, and characterization…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ingo Reiche, F. Nitsche, Uwe Büttner, Florentin Lange
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Solid objects that are not radioactive by themselves but contaminated by radioactive material on their surface may be classified for…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Stéphane BRUT
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TN International has vast experience in domestic (in France) and international transport of used fuel assemblies. Up to 2,400 fuel…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert M. Wham, Roberta Mulford, Nell Carver
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Plutonium-238 produces heat as it decays and can be used to power systems that require high power density and independence from external…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E. Martikka, Tapani Honkamaa
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IAEA safeguards is struggling with a financial challenge: regular budget is stagnating while new member states plan to include nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Benjamin E. Naes, D.G. Willingham, Jay G. Tarolli
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Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a useful microanalytical method to exploit isotopic signatures present in enrichment facilities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shaheen A. Dewji, Sarah Poe, Melissa Einwechter, Rachel Gaudet, Kate Glynn
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As part of the ongoing Next Generation Safeguards Initiative Human Capital Development (HCD) Roadmap study, the National Nuclear Security…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul Beaumont, Neil Evans, Michael Huth, Tom Plant
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Weconsidertheuseofgametheoryinanarmscontrolinspectionplanningscenario.Specifically we develop a case study that games the number of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dmitriy Marchenko, Irina Rakitina, Gulnara Elrgbaeva
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Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC (UMP JSC) is one of the largest in the world utility which pro- duces Uranium fuel for nuclear power…