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The paper focuses on the safety issues of air shipments of radioactive material (RM). The air routes are attractive, since they provide…
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In support of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP), the Los Alamos National Laboratory…
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Large number of applications of radioactive material in medicine, industry, agriculture and research necessitates its transport from one…
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The incorporation of safeguards and security features early in the design process of a nuclear facility is widely accepted as good practice…
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The application for a construction licence for a final disposal facility in Finland was submitted to the Finnish Government in December…
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In 2012, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) applied safeguards for 179 States with safeguards agreements in force, implementing…
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A transport risk assessment study was conducted in 2009 for the transport of radioactive waste with negligible heat-generation (low- to…
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Safety concerns about storage system for spent nuclear fuels have been increased. A dry cask storage system is considered as a realistic…
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Interim storage of used nuclear fuel is a reliable solution. It provides an intermediate solution while waiting for a decision concerning…
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In 2007 the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) contracted with Croft to develop two Type B packages in accordance with 10CFR71…
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A method to quantify the amount of uranium and plutonium in melted fuel derived from a nuclear accident such as the one occurred at the…
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The US has a non-proliferation policy to receive foreign and domestic research reactor returns of spent fuel materials of US origin. These…
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For over fifty years, the H Canyon facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has performed remotely operated radiochemical separations of…
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The IAEA Department of Safeguards is continually working to refine its methodologies and procedures for the analysis of information…
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Fast neutron spectroscopy can provide valuable information about the form of the nuclear material – metal or oxide. This is possible since…
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Each Department of Energy site has a cache of transuranic waste as a legacy of Cold War weapons production, and the Savannah River Site is…
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An integrated nondestructive assay (NDA) system combining active (neutron-generator) and passive neutron detection and passive gamma…
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Four highly enriched uranium (HEU) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) air shipments from Romania, Libya and Uzbekistan were realized in the framework…
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Under the mandate of the amended U.S. Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has the authority to regulate all…
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Nuclear facilities sometimes use hand-held plastic scintillation detectors to detect attempts to divert special nuclear material in…