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Cyber Security Program for Facilities regulated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph Rivers, Stella Opara
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In March 2009, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published 10 CFR 73.54, “Protection of Digital Computer and Communications Systems…
Cyber-Attack Analysis of a School Computer Network
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Akinjide A. Akinola, Abiodun Ayodeji
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Cyber attacks on higher education institutions have been on the increase, particularly because, in contrast to targets like banks and…
Degradation of Concrete Structures in Used Nuclear Fuel Dry Cask Storage Systems
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):O.K. Chopra, D. Diercks, David Ma
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The extended long-term storage of used nuclear fuel will require increased reliance on dry cask storage systems. Reinforced concrete…
DELAYED GAMMA - RAY SPECTROSCOPY WITH LANTHANUM BROMIDE DETECTOR FOR NON - DESCTRUCTIVE ASSAY OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jonathan L. Thron, A. W. Hunt, Metodi Iliev, Bernard Ludewigt, Kiril D. Ianakiev, Andrea Favalli, Vladimir Mozin, Edward T. E. Reedy
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High - energy delayed gamma - ray (DG) spectroscopy is a potential technique for directly assaying spent fuel assemblies and achieving the…
Design and Implementation of 10B + 3He Integrated Continuous Monitor (BHCM) to Holdup Monitoring in Glove Boxes
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yasunobu Mukai, Hironobu Nakamura, Adrienne M. LaFleur, Johnna B. Marlow, Howard O. Menlove, Martyn Swinhoe
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In order to improve the safeguards and nuclear material accountancy of holdup measurements and to establish an alternative technology for…
Design and Implementation of 10B + 3He Integrated Continuous Monitor (BHCM) to Holdup Monitoring in Glove Boxes
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Martyn T. Swinhoe, Yasunobu Mukai, Hironobu Nakamura, Johnna B. Marlow, Tsutomu Kurita, Adrienne M. Lafleur, Howard O. Menlove
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In order to improve the safeguards and nuclear material accountancy of holdup measurements and to establish an alternative technology for…
Design and Installation of Integrated Security Equipment Control System (ISECS) at International Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security Academy
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Woo Jin Kim
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Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC) had installed and operated the first \"Test-Bed\" for the technical…
Design and use of an unattended measurement and surveillance station in the product store of a large reprocessing plant
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. Peerani, L. Dechamp, P. Richir, S. Synetos, Pascal Dransart, L. Pierssens, N. Edmonds, K. Benn
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Plutonium produced at a reprocessing plant in Sellafield is stored in a dedicated product store until it is moved for further use or…
Design of a New Passive Neutron Multiplication Counter to Improve Safeguards Verification of VVER-440 Fuel Assemblies
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard O. Menlove, Daniela Henzlova, Adrienne M. Lafleur, Michael C. Browne, Colin Carroll
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A new non-destructive assay (NDA) technique called Passive Neutron Multiplication Counter (PNMC) is currently being developed at Los Alamos…
Design of Handheld Stilbene System for Neutron Detection in a High-Gamma Field
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S.D. Clarke, Sara A. Pozzi, Mark M. Bourne, Andreas Enqvist, N. Zaitseva, S. Payne
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A new stilbene scintillation composition is capable of growing to larger sizes than previously while preserving excellent PSD properties.…
DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF AN AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR THE ASSAY OF PLUTONIUM IN 3013 CONTAINERS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E. Ray Martin, J. A. Mason, Kevin J. Burke, Marc R. Looman, Adam J. Poundall, Tom M. B. Jennings, Graeme H. Wood
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Plutonium in a variety of forms stored in 3013 containers is one of two main i nput materials to the MOX f acility being c onstructed at…
Detection of Shielded Special Nuclear Material Using High Energy Gamma Ray Transmission Imaging and Cherenkov Detectors
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Anna Erickson, Paul B. Rose Jr, Richard Lanza, Buckley O’Day
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Detection of shielded special nuclear material is a very difficult task, especially while in transit. Current active methods designed to…
Determination of Pyroprocessing Cathode Processor Failure Modes and Integration Into a Signature-Based Safeguards (SBS) Framework
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Philip L. Lafreniere, Robert O. Hoover
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Developing safeguards for pyroprocessing technologies faces multiple challenges. This is due to the limitations of traditional nuclear…
Determining the Benefits of Nuclear Material and Arms Control on Nuclear Security
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Claudio Gariazzo
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Nations that enter into a nuclear material or arms control agreement do so in an effort to enhance or create trust to mitigate a perceived…
Developing a Unique Identification Method for Used Fuel Storage Casks
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Eric B. Rauch, Scott DeMuth
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Storing well cooled used fuel in dry storage casks has become a commonplace occurrence in many fuel cycles around the world. These casks…
Development and Demonstration of a Pu NDA System using ZnS/10B2O3 Ceramic Scintillator Detectors
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kazuhiko Soyama, Akira Ohzu, Tatsuya Nakamura, Kaoru Sakasai, Hironobu Nakamura, M. Seya, Tsutomu Kurita, Nozomi Kobayashi
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To establish an alternative technique of He-3 neutron detector that is used for nuclear material accountancy and safeguards, we have…
Development and Implementation of Policies and Strategies for Radioactive Waste& DSRS Management. National Experience - Implementation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Paci
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The protection of the environment and human health from the detrimental effects of radioactive wastes could be achieved through the…
Development of a Ceramic Seal Handheld Reader and Fluorescent Seal Coatings
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dan Krementz
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Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are collaborating on development of a Ceramic Seal, which…
DEVELOPMENT OF A LABR3 SCINTILLATION DETECTOR SYSTEM FOR NEUTRON RESONANCE DENSITOMETRY (NRD)
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michio Seya, Masatoshi Kureta, Hideo Harada, Fumito Kitatani, Mitsuo Koizumi, Harufumi Tsuchiya, Hideki Iimura, Atsushi Kimura, Peter Schillebeeckx
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We have proposed neutron resonance densitometry (NRD) as a method to quantify special nuclear materials in particle-like debris of melted…
Development of a MCNP Library in Support of a Broad-Area Search Detection System
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Samuel Willmon, Hannah Hale, Howard L. Hall
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In this paper, we describe our efforts to develop a library of radiation transport modeling data to support the broad-area search for…