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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. Jouanne, A. Sari, F. Carrel, F. Lainé, A. Lyoussi, O. Petit
Abstract:Neutron interrogation is a widely used technique to detect special nuclear material. First, neutrons induce fission reaction on the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jeff Hays, Mike Valenzano, Catherine Shelton
Abstract:The current inventory of used nuclear fuel assemblies (UNFAs) from commercial reactor operations in the United States totals approximately…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Christian Leprunier, Thierry Lallemant
Abstract:For 50 years, AREVA TN has been performing up to 250 shipments/year of used fuel assemblies in Europe and in the world, mainly for…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):C. Parks, N. Barton, S. Darby, M. Hirose, D. Mennerdahl, I. Ortiz de Echevarria Diez, I. Reiche
Abstract:In 2012 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published a revision to the IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Nancy Capadona, Kasturi Varley, E. William Brach, Christopher Bajwa
Abstract:An International Conference on the Safe and Secure Transport of Radioactive Material was held in October 2011, and a follow-up Technical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.C. Riley
Abstract:This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government. Neither the United States…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Yumiko Kumano, Bernhard Droste, Makoto Hirose, John Harvey, Ingo Reiche, Dietmar Wolff, Paul McConnell, Kasturi Varley
Abstract:Spent nuclear fuel is generated from the operation of nuclear reactors and needs to be safely managed following its removal from reactor…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Emmanuel Rigaut, Viviane Amouroux
Abstract:Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) occupies a unique position in the French research landscape works, where it is now the major actor…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Dr. Rainer Nöring, Dr. Sascha Klappert
Abstract:In Germany, the Atomic Energy Act regulates the disposal of spent fuel in a way that it has to be disposed of as radioactive waste in a…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Anna. Wikmark
Abstract:Despite today’s increasingly more reliable operation of nuclear power plants, damaged fuel rods exist in many nuclear power plants.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Olivier Rouleaux Dugage, Samuel Courteille, Suzel Vilarel
Abstract:Every year, about 400 000 m3 of low activity radwastes coming from dismantling and sanitation projects are produced in France representing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Syed Tahir Raza Naqvi
Abstract:Nuclear Safety was always accorded top priority by all Nuclear States, while security remained in tandem. It was the catastrophic matrix of…
Type:JNMM
Volume:41
Issue:4
Author(s):Bruce Wiersma, McIntyre R. Louthan, Karthik Subramanian, Kayle Boomer
Abstract:High-level nuclear waste byproducts incident to nuclear weaponmaterials production are managed within the U.S. Departmentof Energy (DOE)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yusuke Kuno, Masaru Watahiki, Hiroshi Sagara, Hirofumi Tomikawa, Akihiro Ishimi
Abstract:For the nuclear material accountancy of molten core material in Fukushima Daiichi unit 1, 2 and 3, feasibility studies of a variety of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard O. Menlove, Martyn T. Swinhoe, Shoko Iso, Carlos D. Rael, Taketeru Nagatani, Johnna B. Marlow, Shinichi Kumakura, Shinji Nakajima, Takashi Asano, Takehito Watanabe
Abstract:The advanced verification inventory system (AVIS) is a nondestructive assay (NDA) system developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.E. Budu, D.V. Derganov, O.A. Savina, S.V. Komarov, S.D. Moses
Abstract:In the framework of the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Program US DOE and Russian organizations have developed the first…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Tukhvatulin, Mariia Gurtovaia
Abstract:The results of the physical protection systems (PPS) design, works of the physical protection means modernization are considered. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brian J. Quiter, Bernhard A. Ludewigt, Thibault Laplace
Abstract:Nuclear resonance uorescence (NRF) measurements have been made on plutonium targets at the High-intensity gamma source at Duke University…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert D. McElroy, Stephen Croft
Abstract:The need to find a replacement neutron detector for the widely used 3He proportional tube has resulted in a number of new technologies, as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):George Berzins, Randy Jones, Calvin Moss, Andy Li
Abstract:One of the primary goals of our multi-year test and evaluation (T&E) program for radioisotope identifiers (RIIDs), conducted in support…