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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Wallenius, K. Mayer, Z. Varga
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Nuclear Material is kept under a stringent system of national control and international verification. This includes physical protection…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Melissa A. Scholz, Shaheen A. Dewji, Sarah Poe, Lauren Finklea
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Since its creation in 2008, the Human Capital Development (HCD) subprogram of NNSA’s Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI) has been…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Nathalie Allimann
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France, like other countries including Japan, the UK, Russia and China, has chosen the closed fuel cycle, where 96% of the content of used…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Nathalie Allimann
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Part of the AREVA Group, TN International offers a complete range of transport and interim storage solutions for radioactive materials…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Nathalie Allimann, Olivier Lefebvre, Luc Janssen
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Since the Doel 1&2 nuclear power plant shutdown announcement in Belgium, planned for 2015, Synatom has had the challenge of emptying…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Philip W. Noss
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AREVA Federal Services LLC, under contract to the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Offsite Source Recovery Project, has developed a new…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Wolfgang Bergmann
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The development of the type B(U)F-96 package NCS 45 for the transport of irradiated fuel rods was presented at PATRAM 2004 [1]. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeffrey L. Lacy, Athanasios Athanasiades, Christopher S. Martin
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Previous studies [1] have reported that boron-coated straw (BCS) detectors can marginally replace 3He tubes in compact coincidence counters…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Gary Nightingale
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For most organisations that carry out their business in the field of nuclear engineering it is necessary to safely store radioactive…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. K. Polack, M. Flaska, S.A. Pozzi
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Organic scintillation materials are important for many applications because they are sensitive to fast neutrons and photons. However, the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Michelle Nuttall, Anthony R. Cory
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New packages have been identified and are under development by INS to facilitate the re?disposition of fissile materials under the NDA’s…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S. Tozser, P. Adelfang, E. Bradley
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The Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Programme was launched in 2002. Since then the programme has successfully completed 52…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):P. J. Vescovi, N. A. Kent
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) establishes “requirements for packaging, preparation for shipment, and transportation of licensed…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Chris Fry
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The Transport Container Standardisation Committee (TCSC) is a UK nuclear industry group whose main function is to examine the requirements…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Millington
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Historically, within the United Kingdom, the majority of solid low level radioactive waste arisings from the nuclear industry have been…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Adam Hecht, Jean-Claude Diels, Ladan Arrissian
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Transparent crystals can be monitored for radiation damage to serve as a detector for both immediate dose and integrated dose for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Markku Koskelo, Blane Beckes, Steve Kadner
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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) mission is to verify the correctness and completeness of the states’ declarations about…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan Michael Bolind
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In the first phase of its Spent Fuel Nondestructive Assay project, the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI) of the U.S. Department…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Flaska, Sara A. Pozzi, C.S. Sosa
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Organic scintillators require accurate discrimination of neutrons and gamma rays when used in mixed neutron/gamma-ray radiation fields.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Marie-Thérèse LIZOT, Nancy Capadona, Ingo Reiche, Katherine Rooney, Pierre MALESYS, Christophe Getrey
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As the transport conditions were defined 50 years ago, it seems legitimate to raise again the issue of their pertinence. A review of…