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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Croft, Robert D. McElroy
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The worldwide shortage of 3 He for use in international safeguards has caused a resurgence of development activities for replacement…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Duncan W. MacArthur, M.C. Browne, Robert F. Parker, Danielle K. Hauck
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Portal Monitors are a key piece of technology which represent a union between non-destructive analysis (NDA) and chain of custody (COC) in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tom Ellacott, Karen Owen-Whitred
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In September 2005, the IAEA first reached the Broad Safeguards Conclusion that all nuclear material in Canada remained in peaceful…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dietlieb L. Tillwick, M Rasweswe, Bransby Nangu
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South Africa’s recent nuclear energy policy and the integrated resource plan for electricity outlines the government plans for expanding…
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Author(s):Jacqueline L. Shipwash, Karyn R. Durbin
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Frequently, international safeguards at nuclear facilities have been applied after the facility has been constructed, and sometimes after…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Han-suk Ko, Hyun-sook Kim, Byung-Doo Lee
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The Integrated Safeguards (IS) has been applied to 10 nuclear facilities and 1 location outside facility (LOF) at the Korea Atomic Energy…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Pete Dessaules, Leigh B, Gunn
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The U.S. Government’s 1994 report, Plutonium: The First 50 Years, chronicled the production, acquisition, and utilization of plutonium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ole Reistad, Helen White, David M. Chambers, Halvor Kippe, Steinar Backe, Svein Mykkeltveit, Colin Waters, Elin Enger, Steinar Hoibraten, Rajdeep Singh Sidhu, Andrew Collinson
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Article VI of the NPT sets out, among other elements, that each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue effective measures…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Susan Pepper, Susan Pepper, Joseph Indusi, Jessica Cruz, Jessica Cruz, Jade Patterson, Jay Disser, Jay Disser, Tyler Devries-Wallace, Andrew Gross, Tyler Devries-Wallace
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The Department of Safeguards in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is charged with ensuring that nuclear material is only used…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard Hall, Joseph R. Stainback IV, James N. Sumner
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The University of Tennessee (UT), in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12),…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael C. Shannon
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Despite the rapid growth of university nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards curricula, physical protection systems (PPSs), a vital…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Angela Lousteau, Jake Livesay, Heather Volz, Christopher Lovejoy
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Radiation detection technology is invaluable to many fields of study in identifying nuclear materials through the use of spectral…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Phil Daborn, Paula Hayden, Helen White, Philip Ind
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This paper discusses research into the use of modal testing techniques as a method of maintaining a Chain of Custody over treaty relevant…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dr Roger Howsley
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Since the 2008 launch, WINS has proven the importance of networking a diverse international group of professionals to share nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Le ´na ´rd Pa ´l, Imre Pa ´zsit
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The subject of this paper is the investigation of the effect of the dead time on the statistics of the particle detection process. A…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Belle R. Upadhyaya, Taner Uckan, Josè March-Leuba, Charles A. Morrow II
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A simple method of security monitoring in gas centrifuge enrichment plants (GCEPs), using the thermal imaging technology, is presented.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dan Archer
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A Third Generation Attribute Measurement System (3G-AMS) project has been tasked by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.M. Essex, G.H. Gardenier
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Age determinations of natural and anthropogenic materials of uranium and thorium are possible through measurements of the composition of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. M. McConchie, J.T. Mihalczo, J. M. Crye, H. L. Hall
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is developing a method to estimate the enrichment of uranium metal when heavily shielded by high-Z materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christophe Mathonat, G. Jossens
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Among non-intrusive and non-destructive assay techniques for the characterization of nuclear materials, calorimetry is the most accurate,…