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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bernard Wishard, Victor Kravtchenko, Markku Koskelo, David Johnson, Christopher Martinez
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IAEA safeguards regime utilizes tamper-indicating seals in order to maintain continuity of knowledge and significantly reduce the need for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ioanna Iliopulos, Mark West, Joseph H. Schwartzel, Patrick Daly
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The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), in partnership with the Office of the Deputy…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Russell Leslie, Dr. Robert Floyd
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Understanding of safeguards and nuclear related issues more generally is not well developed amongst government officials internationally…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Adam Williams, David R. Boyle, Amir H. Mohagheghi, Phillip A. Beely
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To better achieve their respective program goals amidst the growing Middle East regional interest in nuclear energy, the National Nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Karl Horak, Michael McDaniel, Denise Bleakly
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Because of the inherently geographic nature of the processes of nuclear proliferation, successful analysis requires appropriate tools…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S.H. Menlove, Larry Eccleston
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Users have identified the problem that demand for 3He gas has far exceeded gas supplies and is projected to continue because of the reduced…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alex C. Misner, Luke W. Campbell, L. Eric Smith
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Nuclear safeguards requires accountancy of plutonium present in spent reactor fuels. Current non-destructive methods do not directly…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.M. Giaquinto, R. D. Smith, J. S. Delashmitt, R.D. Canaan
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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Fissile Materials Disposition Program (FMDP) is pursuing the disposal of surplus weapons-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul A. Lessing, Irina Glagolenko
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Previously, the U.S. Department of Energy released Am-241 for various applications such as smoke detectors and Am-Be neutron sources for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Aaron W. Kilburn
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High purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are used to determine an objects output of gamma-ray radiation. This is done by counting charged…
Type:JNMM
Volume:39
Issue:3
Author(s):Taketeru Nagatani, Shinji Nakajima, Takashi Asano, Shigeo Fujiwara, Howard Menlove, Martyn Swinhoe, Michael C. Browne
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The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has worked on highaccuracymeasurement of plutonium mass by non-destructive assayunder a joint study…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Virgina E. Magoulas, D. M. Davis
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In April 2001 the Department of Energy (DOE) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) signed an Interagency Agreement to transfer…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lev Neymotin, Victor Pitel, V. V. Sviridova, J. Sanders, P. M. O’Shell, Andrey Stepashko, Andrey Sviridov
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Measurement of holdup, scrap, and nuclear waste stream materials is an integral part of an effective material control and accounting (MC…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sara Z. Kutchesfahani
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This paper argues that one way to strengthen international safeguards would be to ensure the signature of the Additional Protocol (AP) by…
Type:JNMM
Volume:40
Issue:1
Author(s):Herman M. G. Nackaerts Herman M. G. Nackaerts
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The IAEA is responsible for providing assurancesto the international communitythat states are in compliance with theircommitments to use…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael D. Rosenthal
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In NPT non-nuclear weapon States without an Additional Protocol (AP), the IAEA plans safeguards on the basis of safeguards criteria that…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. R. Grogan, S. M. McConchie, J.T. Mihalczo, James Mullens
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nonintrusively examine the interior structure of shielded objects. The pixel values in such images represent the attenuation coefficients…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Green, E. Elfman, W. Adam Watkins, Brian Dickens
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Complex and powerful models of physics phenomenon proliferate in most areas of nuclear science; and indeed are needed to train nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William Karl Pitts, Alex C. Misner, Sean Robinson, Ken Jarman, Erin Miller, Allen Seifert, Benjamin McDonald, Tim White
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Advances in radiographic material discrimination and emissive object detection algorithms are presented. This paper describes the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William Karl Pitts, Alex C. Misner, Sean Robinson, Ken Jarman, Erin Miller, Allen Seifert, Benjamin McDonald, Tim White
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Imaging technologies may provide particularly useful techniques that support monitoring and verification of deployed and non-deployed…