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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K.R. Shcherbinin
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The design requirements for physical protection systems currently adopted at Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) were established in the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Carlson
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Currently there are two regional safeguards systems, Euratom and ABACC. Is there a place for further regional safeguards arrangements in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sharon M. DeLand, Dusty Rhoades, Grace Thompson
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A future arms control treaty that includes limits on the total number of nuclear warheads would be expected to define a set of verification…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Boyer, K. D. Ianakiev, Karen A. Miller, Heather H. Erpenbeck, Steven L. Ward, Brian Fane, Steven L. Ward
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Advanced safeguards approaches for gas centrifuge enrichment facilities that incorporate unattended or remote monitoring systems are…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hidekazu Chayama, Hong-Lae Chang, Won Il Ko, G. Pomeroy, Robert Bari, Michael Zentner, Echkard Haas, Thomas Killeen, Jeremy Whitlock, Filippo Sevini, Gennady M. Pshakin, G. G. M. Cojazzi, J.H. Park
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The PRADA (Collaborative Project on Proliferation Resistance: Acquisition/Diversion Pathway Analysis) study was tasked to further develop…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Danielle K. Hauck, Peter A. Santi
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Calorimetry provides a precise and accurate measurement of the mass of radioisotopes with significant heat output. Calorimetry is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Alexander, Olena Romanova, E.D. Collins, Brad D. Patton, Charles W. Alexander, Emory D. Collings, Robert M. Wham
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Plutonium-244 ( 244 Pu) is an extremely rare and long-lived isotope of plutonium with a half-life of 80 million years. Measureable…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul Nelson, Blake J. Nelson, Kevin T. Nelson
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The Bayesian methodology pioneered by Gott is applied to an event that could have occurred but has not (e.g., attempted armed theft of a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kory Budlong-Sylvester, Dunbar Lockwood, Scott DeMuth
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For large throughput nuclear facilities, such as commercial reprocessing plants, it is difficult to satisfy the IAEA safeguards…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G.W. Veazey, Georgette Y. Ayers, Chester Smith
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At the LANL TA-55 Plutonium Facility, cement fixation has been used for 25 years to dispose of TRU-radioactivea wastes generated by its…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Denis Beller, Sonya Bowyer, A. Gavron, Kevin K. Anderson, C.J. Gesh, L. Eric Smith, Jon Kulisek, Andy Casella, M. Devlin, J.M. O’Donnell, Yaron Danon, Bjorn Becker
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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) of next-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.F. Krebs, Allen Bakel, Matthew Duchene
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Process monitoring offers a path forward in reducing the safeguards’ error propagation in a large commercial reprocessing facility without…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Phillip Kunsberg
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This article explores an approach to nuclear arms reductions that would make nuclear weapons increasingly less relevant in relations…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William S. Charlton, David J. Sweeney
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The decision to proliferate is just the first of many for a state seeking nuclear weapons. Choices between uranium and plutonium based…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John R. Phillips, Sean Kreyling, Alan Brothers
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State-level nuclear proliferation is a complex technical, politico-military and socio-economic behavior beyond the reach of simple…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jon Phillips
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State-level nuclear proliferation is a complex technical, politico-military and socio-economic behavior beyond the reach of simple…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Pshakin, V. Bytchkov
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The peaceful use of nuclear energy, being a stable, economically competitive source of energy, is growing. States which already have…
Type:JNMM
Volume:39
Issue:4
Author(s):Roger Howsley
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At the INMM 46th Annual Meeting in 2005, NTI President Charles Curtis challenged INMM to create an organization to promote best practices…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Logan Mintz
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Though there are currently a considerable amount of international safeguards regarding spent fuel, this paper proposes the implementation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Russell Leslie, Dr. Robert Floyd
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The nuclear non-proliferation safeguards system is a field in which the various agencies involved have to walk a fine line between a range…