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State and Facility Nuclear Material Accounting System for Emerging Nuclear Power Countries
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Samuel Lee Brown
Abstract:
People who do not believe that the nuclear renaissance is happening, should take a look at what’s going on in the Middle East and Asia.…
Statistical Assessment of Bias Significance in SNM Measurement Systems
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Shipman
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Measurement bias is systematic error affecting the accuracy of measurement systems. Measurement bias is the difference between the…
Status of Rok Support Program
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Na Young Lee, Byung-Marn Koh
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ROK signed Member State Support Program (MSSP) in 1997. MSSP is to support the IAEA by providing extra-budgetary funding for research,…
Status of the Nuclear Forensics Capabilities Establishment at Necsa in South Africa
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ian D. Hutcheon, Lee R. Riciputi, Aubrey N. Nelwamondo, Reuben P. Mogafe, Erick C. Ramon, Daniel Booysen
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An assessment of Necsa’s capability to service the Republic of South Africa (RSA) with regard to nuclear forensics (a technical initiative…
Status on Establishing the Feasibility of Lead Slowing Down Spectroscopy for Direct Measurement of Plutonium in Used Fuel
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Denis Beller, A. Gavron, Kevin K. Anderson, C.J. Gesh, Jon Kulisek, Andy Casella, M. Devlin, J.M. O’Donnell, R.C. Haight, Yaron Danon, George Imel, Glen A. Warren, A. Weltz
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Developing a method for the accurate, direct, and independent assay of the fissile isotopes in bulk materials (such as used fuel) from…
Stocks and Flows of U and Pu in a World with 3.6 TWe of Nuclear Power
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert J. Goldston
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Integrated energy, environment, and economics models project that worldwide electrical energy use will increase to ~12 TWe in 2100 and…
Storage Modeling of Primary Storage Facilities at Y-12
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brennan Thompson
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Storage modeling is an effective tool that the Y-12 National Security Complex uses to assist production, stockpile, and surplus-management…
Strengthened Nuclear Safeguards: a Statistical View in the Context of Combining Process Monitoring and Nuclear Material Accounting Data
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kory Budlong-Sylvester, John Howell, Mitsutoshi Suzuki, Tom Burr, Brian Weaver, Claire Longo, Michael S. Hamada
Abstract:
“Integrated/strengthened safeguards” is the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) concept that effective safeguards must be maintained…
Strengthened Nuclear Safeguards: A Statistical View in the Context of Combining Process Monitoring and Nuclear Material Accounting Data
Type:JNMM
Volume:40
Issue:4
Author(s):Thomas Burr, Kory Budlong-Sylvester, Michael S. Hamada, Claire Longo, Brian Weaver, John Howell, Mitsutoshi Suzuki
Abstract:
“Integrated/strengthened safeguards” is the International AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA) concept that effective safeguards must bemaintained at…
Structuring the Nuclear Nonproliferation Transparency Problem
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):George T. Baldwin, Risa N. Mongiello
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How states demonstrate commitment to nuclear nonproliferation usually involves multiple approaches: instituting domestic controls and…
Study on Sustainable Regional Nuclear Fuel Cycle Framework from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Viewpoint (?) Prerequisites for formulation of the Framework
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Adachi, R. Takashima, S. Tanaka, Mitsunori Akiba
Abstract:
In establishing a feasible and sustainable Multilateral Nuclear Fuel Cycle Framework which strengthens nuclear non-proliferation regime…
Study on Sustainable Regional Nuclear Fuel Cycle Framework from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Viewpoint (I) Historical Review and Basic Concept to Propose New Framework
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Adachi, Jor-Shan Choi, Takuji Oda, M. Tazaki, R. Takashima, A. Omoto, Y. Kuno
Abstract:
New nuclear energy deployment may be deaccelerated for the time being by the occurrence of the Fukushima NPP accident, while it is…
Study on Sustainable Regional Nuclear Fuel Cycle Framework from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Viewpoint (III) Proposal of Specific Agreements for Multilateral Nuclear Fuel Cycle Approach
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Adachi, M. Akiba, M. Tazaki, A. Omoto, S. Tanaka
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To construct suitable and concrete models for a reliable and sustainable international/regional framework in the fields of nuclear fuel…
Summary of Changes in INFCIRC/225/Revision 5 and Impacts to Nuclear Security Regimes
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ruth Duggan
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One of the most significant changes to INFCIRC/225 in Revision 5 is the definition of the State’s Physical Protection Regime in Section 3…
Tagging, Tracking and Locating without GPS SRNL-L4000-2012-00010
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph V. Cordaro, J. Todd Coleman, Davis Shull
Abstract:
The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) was requested to lead a Law Enforcement Working Group that was formed to collaborate on…
Taking the Long View in a Time of Great Uncertainty INMMs International Role
Type:JNMM
Volume:41
Issue:1
Author(s):Jack Jekowski
Abstract:
The INMM’s 53rd Annual Meeting, heldin Orlando, Florida USA, was a remarkableexperience that demonstrated howinterconnected we all are in…
Technical Cross-cutting Issues for the Next Generation Safeguards Initiatives Spent Fuel Nondestructive Assay Project
Type:JNMM
Volume:40
Issue:3
Author(s):Stephen Tobin, Howard Menlove, Martyn Swinhoe, P. Blanc, Thomas Burr, L. G. Evans L. G. Evans, A. Favalli, M. L. Fensin M. L. Fensin, C. R. Freeman C. R. Freeman, J. Galloway, A. Gerhart, A. Rajasingam, E. Rauch, N. P. Sandoval, H. Trellue
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Ever since there has been spent fuel (SF), researchers have madenondestructive assay (NDA) measurements of that fuel to learnabout its…
Technical Synergies between Nuclear Safety and Security
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Abousahl, K. Mayer, M. Wallenius, Montserrat Marin Ferrer, W. Janssens, G. Cojazzi, M. Hedberg, V. Sequeira, V. Ranguelova
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One year after the Fukushima event, the nuclear security summit in Seoul March 2012, in its final statement, highlights the nexus between…
Technology Deployment Cookbook
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. J. Predhomme
Abstract:
To successfully manage Nuclear Material, a progressive organization must strive to stay current with technology and the improvements it…
Terrestrial and Cosmic Background Radiation Effect on a Dual-Particle Imaging System
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shaun D. Clarke, Marek Flaska, Sara A. Pozzi, Michael C. Hamel, Marc F. Becchetti, John K. Polack, Kiyotaka Ide
Abstract:
Radiation imaging systems detect the location of potential threat objects by calculating the direction of incoming particles using…