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Initial Performance of the Advanced Verification for Inventory Sample System (AVIS)
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard O. Menlove, Martyn T. Swinhoe, Shoko Iso, Carlos D. Rael, Johnna B. Marlow, Louise G. Evans
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This paper describes the requirements, design and initial performance of the Advanced Inventory Verification Sample System (AVIS) a non-…
Innovative Gamma-Radiation Detector for Radiation Monitors
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexei Yudov, Dimitry V. Bukin, Yuriy I. Chernukhin
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One of the most efficient technologies that prevent the unauthorized displacement of nuclear materials and radioactive substances are…
Installation and Test of the Hybrid K-Edge Densitometer System at ORNL
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeremy Townsend, Jeff Chapman, Howard Hall
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A Hybrid K-Edge Densitometer (HKED) is being installed in the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center (REDC) at Oak Ridge National…
INSTALLATION OF MODULAR HOT CELLS: EXTENDING THE LIFE OF AN OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR FACILITY
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen L. Yarbro, Harrison F. Kerschner, Eric M. Hanson, Tye R. Blackburn
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This paper presents the issues and unique challenges posed in fabrication, installation, commissioning, and startup of modular hot cells…
Instrumentation Technologies, Building Blocks, and Architectures for Implementation of Safeguards by Design and Remote Inspections
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Morichi, N. Peter-Stein, M. Stein, T. Killeen, L. Van Den Durpel
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To prepare for the expanded use of nuclear energy, industrial suppliers of nuclear instrumentation, domestic and international safeguards…
Integrated Process Monitoring based on Systems of Sensors for Enhanced Nuclear Safeguards Sensitivity and Robustness
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shirley Johnson, M. Ehinger, H. E. Garcia, T.L. Burr, J.F. Krebs, A. J. Bakel, Scott DeMuth, W. Lin
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This paper illustrates safeguards benefits that process monitoring (PM) can have as a diversion deterrent and as a complementary…
Integrating Nuclear Proliferation Modeling, Inference, Technologies, and Assessments: An Application to State-Specific Proliferation Risk Assessment Case Studies
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. A. Coles, Alan Brothers, Angela Dalton, Amanda White, Stephen Walsh
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In this paper, we delineate an innovative approach to nuclear proliferation risk assessment in support of strengthening international…
Integration of ARG-US RFID and DOE TRANSCOM
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Anderson, Brian Craig, H. Tsai, Y. Liu, J. Shuler, J. H. Lee
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ARG-US, a radio-frequency-identification (RFID) system for secured tracking and monitoring of nuclear and radioactive material containers…
Intent, Capability, and Opportunity: A Holistic Approach to Addressing Proliferation as a Risk Management Issue
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Trond Bjornard, Amanda Rynes
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Proliferation risk assessment models are designed to evaluate only a portion of the overall risk, focusing exclusively on either…
International Nuclear Security Education Network
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Cristen L. Duncan, Dmitriy Nikonov, Andrea Braunegger-Guelich, Alan Heyes
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One of the biggest challenges presented by the global nuclear energy revival is maintaining effective security wherever nuclear or other…
International Safeguards Accountancy Simulator for Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plants
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David H. Hanks, Daniel C. Strohmeyer, Daniel Krementz, Sean Branney, Richard W. Poland, J. Rusty Coleman
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A simulator for Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant (GCEP) advanced safeguarding concepts has been designed, constructed, and tested at the…
International Safeguards Recommendations for The Indian Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR)
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James E. Doyle, Chantell L. Murphy, Brian D. Boyer, Brian M. Fane
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India has created a unique nuclear energy research and development program making nuclear reactors using all three fissionable materials:…
International Training Centre in the ROK (nuclear security & nonproliferation)
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hyungmin Seo
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With respect to the nuclear security-related multilateral agreements, many states and international societies recognize the importance of…
INTRINSICALLY TAMPER INDICATING CERAMIC SEAL (ITICS)
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Heidi Anne Smartt, Barry Schoeneman, J. E. Walker, David L. Zamora, Juan A. Romero, Thomas M. Weber, Adrian Mendez-Torres, Daniel Krementz, George Weeks
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Sandia National Laboratories and the Savannah River National Laboratory are collaborating on an effort to research and develop the…
Introducing a graduate-level science course for nonproliferation and terrorism MA students
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, Patricia Lewis
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A graduate-level science course tailored towards future nonproliferation policy analysts commenced in Spring 2011 at the Monterey Institute…
Introduction of Education and Training on Nuclear Control in ROK
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Woo Jin Kim, Hyun-Chul Kim
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Education and training on the nuclear nonproliferation became essential to the use of nuclear energy and research program. Korea Institute…
Introduction of Nuclear Security Culture at the Joint Institute for Power and Nuclear Research-Sosny of the National Academy of Sciences of Belaru
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V.V. Zenevich, A.I. Kiyavitskaya, A.V. Kuzmin, V.A. Bryleva
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Pursuant to the requirements of the international nuclear law, each state assumes responsibility for nuclear security assurance. The…
Introduction to Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence as a Tool for Nuclear Materials Management
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William Bertozzi, Stephen E. Korbly, Cody Wilson
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We review the physics and present knowledge of Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence (NRF) as well as identify some research areas necessary to…
Inverse Solutions in Spectroscopic Analysis with Applications to Problems in Global Safeguards
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander A. Solodov, M. Ehinger, Vladimir Protopopescu, Charles F. Weber, Catherine E. Romano
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This work describes a nondestructive strategy and algorithm designed to evaluate the burnup and plutonium content of light-water-reactor…
Investigation of Energy Windowing Algorithms for Effective Cargo Screening with Radiation Portal Monitors
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Man-Sung Yim, Ryne Hevener
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Radiation portal monitors (RPMs) are distributed across the globe in an effort to decrease the illicit trafficking of nuclear materials.…