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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph A. Cuadrado-Medina, Mark Pierson
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The possibility of realizing Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the United States is increasing as the technology matures through the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Katsuo Abe, Mika Sumi, Tomio Kageyama
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In order to obtain reliable accountancy analysis results, the isotope dilution mass spectrometry method is applied at most of the plutonium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Roberta Mulford
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Fracture behavior as a function of age in fuels consisting of plutonium-238 oxide is likely to change as a function of fuel age, but…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Haitang Wang, Thomas N. Massey, Andreas Enqvist
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In this work, a complete and self-contained analytic model of pulse height distribution for deuterated organic scintillation detectors (EJ-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Roberta Mulford, Rene Chavarria
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Material handling constraints for 238PuO2 are in part determined by the requirements of the Facility Safety Basis. For the various accident…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Chan Kim, Man-Sung Yim, So Young Kim
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With no truly global regime formed yet for nuclear security, state-level evaluation of nuclear security takes on central importance for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Y. Kuno, D. Hara
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It is our responsibility to consider nuclear nonproliferation in the exit strategy for nuclear energy in order not to leave such burdensome…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G Venkata Ramana
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Global use of nuclear materials is expected to increase significantly. A large scale surveillance system will become a necessity in the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shikha Prasad, Akanksha Singh
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This paper presents preliminary measurement results using a wireless robot. Our objective is to measure detector response for moving source…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kelly Lively, Eric Clarke
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Idaho National Laboratory’s, Space Nuclear Systems and Technology Division established the resources, equipment and facilities required to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. G. Johnson, K. L. Lively, C. C. Dwight, E. Clarke
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Radioisotope power systems have been used for over 50 years to enable missions in remote or hostile environments. They are a convenient…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. A. Pozzi, S.D. Clarke, M. Paff, M. L. Ruch, A. Sagadevan
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EJ309 organic liquid scintillators are powerful tools for detecting both gamma rays and neutrons because of their ability to perform pulse…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Marc R. Looman, Richard Creed, Mark Sherick
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Sodium loop sections were irradiated in several nuclear reactors at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in the 1970’s and 1980’s in order…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hirofumi Tomikawa, Akihiro Ishimi, Colin Carroll, Yasushi Nauchi, Young Ham, Duc Vo
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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants (1F) were struck by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 and meltdown of the reactor cores…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard Menlove, Martyn T. Swinhoe, Taketeru Nagatani, Jeff Chapman, Adrienne M. Lafleur, Masatoshi Kureta, Masao Komeda, Colin Carroll, Cynthia Heinberg
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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants (1F) were struck by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 and meltdown of the reactor cores…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hui Zhang
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Since the 9/11attacks, China has significantly improved its nuclear security system, with a focus switching from the traditional “guns,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sheldon Lefkowitz
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In response to Japanese efforts to decontaminate the former operating floor of Fukushima Unit 3, Pentek developed a series of breakthrough…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Hayakawa, R. Hajima, T. Shizuma, P. Bolton, Y. Naoi, N. Kobayashi, M. Senzaki
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The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has held a new international symposium “nuclear physics and gamma-ray sources for nuclear security and…
Type:JNMM
Volume:43
Issue:1
Author(s):Teressa McKinney
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I hope you had the opportunity to join us at the 2014 Annual Meeting that was held at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, Georgia…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tyler Guzzardo, Robert D. McElroy, Stephen Croft
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The K - edge densitometry (KED) measurement of a Hybrid K - Edge Densitometry (HKED) assay of dissolved fuel involves passing a narrow beam…