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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jose March-Leuba, James R. Younkin, Chris A. Pickett, J.R. Garner
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory has engineered a passive on-line enrichment monitor (OLEM) to continuously measure 235U gamma-ray emissions…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jor Shan Choi, Matrin Robel, Bartley B. Ebbinghaus, Brad W. Sleaford, Kevin R. Hase, Andrew W. Prichard, James Blink, Zachery Beauvais
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The nuclear material attractiveness of fuels from proposed small modular reactors is evaluated relative to fuels from existing commercial…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sangcheol Hyung, Ki-Hyun Kim
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Safeguards, export control and physical protection are different from safety in the nature and need to be treated separately. When we look…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michio Seya, Alan Michael Bolind
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This paper reports on the recent progress at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) concerning our various research and development (R&…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan Michael Bolind
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This paper summarizes a recent journal article that examines how the burnup, initial enrichment, and cooling time—collectively called the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Bernahd Droste
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This will is a report from an expert working in this field since 1978, participating in PATRAM conferences since 1980. Exactly in that year…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph Rivers, Larry Harris, Rebecca Richardson
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As part of the 2007 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Authorization Bill, the Congress directed the DHS to establish the Chemical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.M. Giaquinto, R. H. Ilgner, B.D. Roach
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The Nuclear Analytical Chemistry and Isotopics Laboratories (NACIL) Group leads the analytical effort for a variety of nuclear projects at…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):William Marshall, John Wagner
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Commercial used nuclear fuel (UNF) in the United States is expected to remain in storage for periods potentially greater than 40 years.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Irmgard Niemeyer, Irmgard Niemeyer, Clemens Listner, Clemens Listner, Sven Nussbaum, Sven Nussbaum, Julia Tueshaus, Julia Tueshaus
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Under the Additional Protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) complementing the safeguards agreements between States and the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen J. Tobin, Holly R. Trellue, Jack Galloway, Noah A. Fischer
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For the purpose of quantifying how a wide range of nondestructive assay techniques are expected to perform when measuring spent fuel…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Charles W. Pennington
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Expansion of commercial nuclear energy could be one of the future U.S. sources for clean, safe, reliable, and economic electricity. Yet, no…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rollin Evans
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Typically improved radiation detection sensitivity is accomplished by increasing the number of detectors. When combining detectors, system…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Toshiari Saegusa
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Ageing management of spent fuel storage facility may follow lessons learned from literature for nuclear power plant and a review for spent…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A. Béziat, K. Vulliez, B. Deschamps, J.F. Juliaa, L. Mirabel, M. Wataru, K. Shirai, H-P. Winkler
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In the framework of CEA, TECHNETICS GROUP France, GNS and CRIEPI collaboration an experimental program is being carried out to assess the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ralf Schneider-Eickhoff, Roland Hüggenberg, Dr. Linus Bettermann, Dr. Hans-Peter Winkler
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CASTOR® casks are dual-purpose casks for high active nuclear waste that have to fulfill the requirements from both transport (acc. to IAEA…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bryan L. Fearey, Joseph F. Pilat, Kory W. Budlong Sylvester
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The Obama Administration is committed to pursuing formal arms control, but the path ahead will be difficult. The implementation of New…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sarah E. McOmish, Andrew Cox, Cheryl Macqueen, Ian Hayes, Nicholas Bazin
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Tamper Indicating Enclosures (TIEs) are an important tool which can be deployed to maintain a chain of custody over treaty relevant…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Gerald C. Mok, Lisle B. Hagler, Brian L. Anderson
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There is no established structural analysis procedure for radioactive material transportation packagings. This may be because the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):E. William Brach, Nancy Capadona, Kasturi Varley, Christopher Bajwa
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In 2011, the IAEA Transport Safety Unit (TSU) and the Transport Safety Standards Committee (TRANSSC) developed a work plan to capture and…