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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Amanda White, Valerie Lewis, Kristin McNeil
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Since the discovery of the A.Q. Khan network, disrupting the trafficking of strategic nuclear goods has been at the forefront of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Desimone, Rollin E. Lakis, Andrea Favalli, Vladimir Henzl, Michael Browne, Katrina Koehler, Alison Pugmire
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Alpha particles with a typical kinetic energy of 5 MeV have a range of approximately 4 cm in air. They ionize and excite nitrogen atoms and…
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Author(s):Richard Last, Jasper Kirkman
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The Computerised Nuclear Materials Accountancy System (CNMAS) project is a project to replace various nuclear materials accountancy and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W. Mei, Dunbar Lockwood, Stephen LaMontagne
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With the publication of Policy Paper 21 in December 2013, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) clarified that certain chemical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Micheal T. Sayer
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Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) fuel elements are assayed for U-235 content upon receipt of the material from Babcock & Wilcox Technologies…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shirley Johnson, M. Schanfein, M. Scholz, Dunbar Lockwood, J. Alwin
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The benefits of more efficient and effective safeguards are critical to the ability of the IAEA to fulfill its mission. Historically,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):U. S. Salikhbaev, S.A. Baytelesov, S.A. Baytelesov, F.R. Kungurov, Sh. A. Alikulov, Sh. A. Alikulov, William O'Conner, Bruce Reid, Eric Gauerke, F. Akhmedjanov, F. Akhmedjanov
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Influence of neutron irradiation on radiation swelling of aluminum alloys of two types: 97.8Al+0.9Mg+0.8Cu and 96.8Al+2.4Mg+0.3Cu, samples…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nicholas A. Quintero, Matthew MacDougall, Richard Meehan
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Accountable nuclear materials, including highly enriched uranium (HEU), plutonium, tritium, and others, are critical resources that must be…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Susetyo Hario Putero, Andang Widi Harto, Balza Achmad
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To build nuclear security culture, as well as nuclear safety culture among student, in Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) nuclear security is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jerome Verbeke, C. A. Hagmann, J. Randrup, R. Vogt
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From nuclear materials accountability to detection of SNM, the need for better modeling of fission has grown over the past decades. Current…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul Ebel, Igor Khripunov, Terry A. Kuykendall
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The synergistic relationship between nuclear security culture and nuclear safety culture has been recognized since the early development of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Y.Y. Liu, K.E. Sanders, R.B. Pope
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In recent years, the need to achieve a better understanding of the relationships and interfaces among three disciplines related to nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Blair, Craig E. Van Pelt, Doug A. Hemphill
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Nuclear pits are currently stored for short time periods (although the time period can extend up to 5 years or longer in some cases) in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jie Qiu, Padhraic Mulligan, Chung-Han Lin, Leonard Brillson, R. Gregory Downing, Lei Cao
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Gallium nitride (GaN) is a wide bandgap semiconductor material that is suitable for radiation detection in fuel cycle facilities where the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nunung Prabaningrum, Anung Muharini
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Recently, nuclear security has become a global issue in developing nuclear technology which is stated by IAEA. As consequently, this…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Patricia Schuster
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Organic crystal scintillators have long been used as radiation detectors, but their performance as neutron detectors is limited by a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. B. Marlow, Junji Shimizu, Takayuki Tamura, Martyn Swinhoe
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We have made non-destructive measurements as part of the investigation into the cause of the increasing count rate on the Plutonium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Junji Shimizu, Takayuki Tamura, Yasunobu Mukai, Hironobu Nakamura, Tsutomu Kurita, Ko Ikegame
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The Plutonium Inventory Measurement System (PIMS) is permanently installed on glove boxes (GB) in U-Pu co-denitration process at Rokkasho…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Junji Shimizu, Takayuki Tamura, Yasunobu Mukai, Hironobu Nakamura, Hideo Nakamichi, Yoshihiko Noguchi, Ko Ikegame
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The Plutonium Inventory Measurement System (PIMS) used at RRP (Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant) is an assay system to quantify plutonium amount…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. Johnson, R. Howsley, R. Delgado, V. Gradt
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The international community has spent considerable time, money, and effort attempting to establish a series of national and regional…