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A large criticality uncertainty evaluated in type A, fissile transport packages is the effect of hydrogenous packing materials that may be…
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Segmented gamma scanners (SGS) are often employed to provide an accurate determination of gamma-emitting nuclide activity for containerized…
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In 2004, contracting parties to the OECD Paris (and Brussels) Conventions signed Amending Protocols which brought the Paris Convention more…
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The nuclear safeguards landscape is constantly evolving, both at political and technological level, offering challenges, as well as…
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The central principle of the international law of arms control is that there are no rules by which the level of armaments of states is…
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The ROK SSAC has been performed its own national inspections since 1997 according to its domestic law. Its independent safeguards…
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Monte Carlo simulations are commonly used tools for analyzing radiation transport problems related to nuclear material detection and…
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In 2012, the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (BRC) recommended that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) begin “prompt…
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For the transport and interim storage of nuclear material TN International proposes to its customers a wide range of licensed cask design.…
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Transport Container Standardisation Committee (TCSC) been established: “to examine the requirements for the safe transport of radioactive…
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According to the IAEA transport regulation, the nuclear criticality safety demonstration for a package containing fissile materials must…
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The recent accident in Japan at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant is likely to generate challenges to applying effective safeguards on the…
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As result of the nuclear integration between Brazil and Argentina, in July 1991, the Agreement for Peaceful Uses of the Nuclear Energy (…
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Risks of transporting radioactive materials can be estimated using the program and code RADTRAN (Neuhauser, et al., 2000; Weiner, et al.,…
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The initial results from a series of nuclear fluorescence imaging experiments using a variety of uranium metal enrichment standards are…
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Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) N15, Methods of Nuclear Material Control, is sponsored by the Institute of Nuclear Materials…
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For AREVA, a world leader in the nuclear industry, operation performance is necessarily tied to the absolute compliance with requirements…
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Uncertainties related to meeting packaging and transportation regulatory criteria are increasing as commercial used nuclear fuel (UNF) is…
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While international safeguards are concerned with detecting State diversion of nuclear material from peaceful uses to nuclear explosives…
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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Orders require facilities to determine the safeguards category of the facility based upon the quantities…