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INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY FOR BORDER SECURITY DEPLOYMENT PRIORITIZATION AND POST DEPLOYMENT EVALUATION
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul M. Booker, Scott A. Maple
Abstract:
Due to international commerce, cross-border conflicts, and corruption, a holistic, information driven, approach to border security is…
INFORMATION-DRIVEN SAFEGUARDS: A COUNTRY OFFICER’S PERSPECTIVE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E. Gyane
Abstract:
Since the transition from “traditional” to strengthened safeguards, the evaluation and analysis of information has played an increasingly…
Initial Measurements of BN-350 Spent Fuel in Dry Storage Casks using the Dual Slab Verification Detector
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Williams, Peter Santi, M.C. Browne, Corey Freeman, Robert F. Parker
Abstract:
The Dual Slab Verification Detector (DSVD) has been developed, built, and characterized by Los Alamos National Laboratory in cooperation…
INL HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND THE NEXT-GENERATION SAFEGUARDS INITIATIVE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard R. M. Metcalf, Fernando Gouveia
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It is the stated goal of the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI) to promote the development of a strengthened nuclear safeguards…
Innovation : Ahead of the Pack(aging)
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Michel Hartenstein, Hervé ISSARD, Céline Fontanet
Abstract:
Why innovate at all ? \"Innovative\" won't work, let's not rock the boat ?It was so hard getting and renewing an Approval that we don't…
INNOVATION: AHEAD OF THE PACK(AGING)
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Michel HARTENSTEIN, Hervé ISSARD, Céline FONTANET
Abstract:
Customers want the packaging to be more capacious, to accommodate ever hotter materials, to reduce dose rates, to have quicker approvals,…
Integrated Management Approach for Nuclear Waste from Fresh Material at KAERI
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Byung-Wook Lee, Han-suk Ko, Ho-Jun Park, Hyun-Jo Kim, Hyun-sook Kim
Abstract:
It is commonly acknowledged that nuclear waste from fresh nuclear material has lower proliferation concerns than nuclear waste from…
Integrated Nuclear Security Model for Nuclear Facilities and Nuclear Material
Type:JNMM
Volume:38
Issue:4
Author(s):Antonio Prez-Bez
Abstract:
As in many other countries, Spanish nuclear security has undergonea substantial change, increasing requirements and implementingmeasures…
INTERACTION OF PACKAGE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND PACKAGE DESIGN SAFETY ASSESSMENT - Presentation
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Bernhard Droste
Abstract:
This presentation will be a walk across many of the PATRAM conference topics:
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN STAINLESS STEEL AND PLUTONIUM METAL
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Laura A. Worl, Richard E. Mason, D. Kirk Veirs, John T. Dunwoody, Alonso Archuleta
Abstract:
Long-term storage of excess plutonium is of great concern in the U.S. as well as abroad. The current accepted configuration involves…
International Data on Radiological Sources
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Margaret Goldberg, Martha Finck
Abstract:
The mission of radiological dispersal device (RDD) nuclear forensics is to identify the provenance of nuclear and radiological materials…
International Safeguards in Nuclear Weapon States and a Look at the Future
Type:JNMM
Volume:38
Issue:3
Author(s):Caroline Jorant
Abstract:
This paper shall reveiw the framework for applying internationalsafeguards in the five nuclear weapon states and give an overviewof their…
Interpretation of Field Test Data from UF6 Cylinder Accountancy Scales
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nathan C. Rowe, J.M. Whitaker, M.D. Laughter, Adam Shephard
Abstract:
Uranium enrichment service providers are expanding existing gas centrifuge enrichment plants and constructing new facilities to meet…
Intrinsic Detection Efficiency and Pulse Shape Discrimination Characteristics of Deuterated Liquid Scintillators
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S.D. Clarke, M. Flaska, C. C. Lawrence, F. D. Becchetti, M. Ojaruega
Abstract:
Neutron spectroscopy has direct application to the detection of special nuclear materials (SNM) for nuclear safeguards and…
INTRINSIC DOSIMETRY: A POTENTIAL NEW TOOL FOR NUCLEAR FORENSICS INVESTIGATIONS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jon M. Schwantes, Steven D. Miller, J. David Robertson, Richard A. Clark, Roger A. Gregg
Abstract:
Thermoluminescence (TL) dosimetry was used to measure dose effects on the raw stock material of borosilicate container glass from…
Introducing GTS Group - Presentation
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
Introduction to Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage - Handout 1
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Anthony Wetherall, Dr. Nathalie Horbach
INTRODUCTION TO THE ATTRIBUTE VERIFICATION--NEUTRON/GAMMA (AVNG) PROGRAM
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michele R. Smith
Abstract:
When States enter into treaties or executive agreements, verification of monitoring provisions is included in the agreement to allow the…
Inventory Characterization for Planning and Executing Effective Nuclear Material Management, Consolidation and Disposition
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Xavier Ascanio, Dale Dunsworth
Abstract:
Extensive data in readily accessible forms are required to enable planning and execution of effective and efficient nuclear material…
INVESTIGATION OF AVAILABILITY OF RIGID POLYURETHANE FOAM AS SHOCK ABSORBING MATERIAL FOR HEAVY CASK
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jun OKADA, Satoshi ASHIDA, Akio OIWA, Hiroaki Arai
Abstract:
In this study rigid polyurethane foams (R-PUF) were chosen as a shock absorbing material and availability of the impact limiter using R-PUF…