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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James Kornell, Elie Katzenson
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Nuclear processing equipment relies on complex hardware and software. Software can be altered both by elements internal to the originating…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Benjamin B. Cipiti
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As more countries show interest in building advanced fuel cycles and as the technology for safeguarding fuel cycle facilities improves,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nicolas E. Shugart, Jeffrey King
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Preventing the use of nuclear material in the development of weapons is critical for global security and the expansion of nuclear power.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexandra Hackett, Jason P. Hayward
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This research investigates a broad scope of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies that could improve current safeguards practices once…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeffrey S. Allender, Richard E. Koenig, Kenneth Fuller, Janice L. Lawson
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will prepare surplus plutonium for permanent disposition. Under a Record of Decision for the Surplus…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Tristan Karns, Paul Herrick Smith, Timothy Amos Stone, Kirk Patrick Reeves, Douglas Kirk Veirs, Jude M. Logo, Tresa F. Yarbo, Robin J. Cunnigham, Murray E. Moore, Eric Weis, Michael W. Blair, Laura A. Worl
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Incidents involving release of nuclear materials stored in containers of convenience such as food pack cans, slip lid taped cans, paint…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul M. Johns, Enrique E. Wong, James E. Baciak, Juan C. Nino
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Ambient temperature radiation detectors which exhibit high resolution and efficiency are vital for the verification and analysis of special…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Masumi Wataru, Koji Shirai, Toshiari Saegusa
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To verify the effectiveness of surface treatment techniques to the commercialized canister, the mock-up lid part of the canister made of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Maik Hennebach, Franz Hilbert, Roland Baumann
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For radioactive waste with negligible heat generation, final storage in the Konrad repository requires that the waste is conditioned and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Debra Decker, Kathryn Rauhut
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The potential benefits from the development of consensus standards in nuclear safety and security and then in voluntarily compliance with…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ryoji Asano, Masanori Goto, Yoshikazu Miyaji
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A canister loaded spent fuels stored in a concrete over-pack is planned to be taken out from the concrete over-pack, and to be shipped to a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Igor Khripunov, Vladimir Yankov
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In 2014, the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Bulgaria, conducted self-assessment of nuclear security culture using the IAEA methodology…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Eaton, Dr. Ronald Hellmer, Dr. Shuo Cheng, Hugo Leon
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Cesium-137 has been identified as the single most worrisome radioactive isotope in use today, with blood and research irradiators…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Maikael A. Thomas, Zoe N. Gastelum, Timothy M. Shead
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New monitoring regimes for future arms control treaties may generate large quantities of heterogeneous, noisy data that will be difficult…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nathanaël Gombert, Thomas J. Delpoux, Nicolas Saurel
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Quantification of nuclear material is an essential step in the supervision of nuclear waste. It can be performed by gamma spectrometry…
Type:JNMM
Volume:44
Issue:2
Author(s):Sean O'Brien, John Mattingly, Dmitriy Anistratov
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Neutron multiplicity counting measurements enable nondestructive detection of special nuclear material. It is important to estimate the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):W. Scott Edwards
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Over the past five years, several nuclear reactors worldwide have closed unexpectedly, after fresh fuel for the next fuel reload had been…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael C. Hamel, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, John K. Polack, T.L. Beames-Canivet, L.O. Supic
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The Dual-Particle Imager (DPI) is a system designed to detect, identify, and localize the neutron and gamma-ray signatures emitted from…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michio Seya, Mitsuo Koizumi, Mohamd Omer, Christopher T. Angell, Takehito Hayakawa
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Isotope-specific ?-rays emitted in the nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) process provide a good technique for a non-destructive…
Type:JNMM
Volume:44
Issue:3
Author(s):Alison V. Goodsell, Vladimir Henzl, Martyn Swinhoe, William S. Charlton
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2015 J.D. Williams Student Paper Winner The Differential Die-away (DDA) technique is currently being investigated at Los Alamos National…