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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher W. Wilson, Charles Q. Little, Thomas M. Weber
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Sandia National Laboratories has been conducting research into utilizing radiography, combined with automated image processing algorithms,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Whitaker, Kimberly L. Gilligan, John Oakberg
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Transit matching is used by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in drawing safeguards conclusions, supporting inspection…
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Author(s):Stephen Mladineo, Dmitry Kovchegin, Leon Ratz, Nickolas Roth, David Donnelly
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Much of the literature on nuclear security focuses on identifying approaches that strengthen physical protection (PP) systems (“guards,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hannah Hale, Yakubu Viva Ibrahim, Stephen Dahunsi, Fareed Yasin, Rosalind I. J. Hackett
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The value of cultural diversity is a dynamic that transcends organizational process and is intrinsically associated with success or failure…
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Author(s):Masao Senzaki
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At present, several Asian countries have been planning the introduction of nuclear power following the trend of a “Nuclear Renaissance”. In…
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Author(s):Reina Matsuzawa
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Strong nuclear security can be achieved only with strong nuclear security culture. International society recognize s the importance of…
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Author(s):Robert Anderson, Joseph Price
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Current engineering and risk management methodologies may not contain the foundational assumptions required to address the intelligent…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeff Chapman, Richard Poland
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To establish and verify declarations of nuclear materials, frequently neutron coincidence counting is performed by both the host country…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yasunobu Mukai, Michio Seya, Hironobu Nakamura, Tsutomu Kurita, Masatoshi Kureta, Risa Makino, Masafumi Tanigawa, Hiroshi Tobita
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JAEA conducted an R&D project (for past 4 years) to develop a new type of neutron detector using ZnS/10B2O3 ceramic scintillator as an…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mitsuo Koizumi, Jun Takamine, M. Seya, Douglas Chase Rodriguez
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For the fields of nuclear nonproliferation and security, the JAEA is developing a nondestructive delayed-gamma measurement system to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Matt Piotrowski, E. Ray Martin, Marc R. Looman, Adam J. Poundall, Lawrence V. Odell, John A. Mason, William Tansey
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This paper describes the design, development and testing of an updated and automated segmented gamma scanner (SGS) for measuring…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander Glaser, Boaz Barak, Sebastien Philippe
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Future arms-control and disarmament treaties could place numerical limits on all categories of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of weapon…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bradley M. Loftin, Glenn Abramczyk
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Destructive testing of an ES-3100 Shipping Container was completed by the Packaging Technology and Pressurized Systems (PT&PS)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander Glaser, Mark Walker, Michael Schoeppner
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Krypton-85 is released from nuclear reprocessing plants during the sepa- ration of plutonium, which has produced a global atmospheric Kr-85…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Frank N. von Hippel, Michael Schoeppner
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This work examines whether and how nuclear reprocessing plants can be remotely monitored for their plutonium production via their krypton-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. R. Grogan, A. Favalli, H. Trellue, S.J. Tobin, Peter Jansson, Henrik Liljenfeldt, V. Mozin, Anders Sjöland, Duc Vo, P. Schwalbach
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The purpose of the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI)-Spent Fuel (SF) project is to strengthen the technical toolkit of…
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Author(s):Steven Skutnik, David R. Davis
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The use of passive gamma and neutron signatures from fission indicators is a common means of estimating used fuel burnup, enrichment, and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Irmgard Niemeyer, Mona Dreicer, Keir Allen, Clemens Listner, Gotthard Stein, Cliff Chen
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The reduction or elimination of nuclear arms is not likely to occur absent a lower perceived need for a nuclear weapons arsenal and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):O. Gaidar, V. Tryshyn, A. Ustynov, V. Kushka, S. Lopatin, T.M. Kayzar-Boggs, K.B. Knight, M. Robel
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The Institute for Nuclear Research of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine developed a pilot nuclear forensic database in cooperation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kenneth Wrisley, Scott Crow, Sarah Weiss
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One of the key outcomes of the April 2010 Washington Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) was the renewed commitment placed on enhancing the…