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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Karyn Durbin, Kathia Niewiadomski, Dean Tousley
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Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has significantly reduced the size of its nuclear weapons arsenal. As a result of these…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher Blessinger, Ronald J. Livesay, Jason M. Crye, Tommy W. Adkins
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The Global Nuclear Security Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed two batch-mode data analysis tools to…
Type:JNMM
Volume:37
Issue:3
Author(s):James R. Gattiker, Thomas Burr
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A Bayesian approach to estimate the radiation signature in vehicleprofiles is presented. In the setting of interest, the backgroundcount…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.M. LaFleur, D.H. Beddingfield
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Advanced fuel-cycle developments around the world currently under development are exploring the possibility of disposing of 241Am from…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Williams, Peter Santi, M.C. Browne, Robert F. Parker, Maurizio Ingegneri
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The Unattended and Remote Monitoring (UNARM) system at the BN-350 fast breeder reactor facility in Aktau, Kazakhstan continues to provide…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tapani Honkamaa
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systems at the Finnish entry points in 2009-2014 budgets. 10 M€ project will be the largest radiation monitoring infrastructure investment…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Owen B. Drury, Miguel Velazquez, Jonathan G. Dreyer, Stephan Friedrich, Andrea Robles-Olson
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Superconducting ultra-high energy resolution Gamma-ray spectrometers offer an order of magnitude improvement in energy resolution over…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Carlson, Russell Leslie
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Materials of proliferation sensitivity (principally in this context high enriched uranium and separated plutonium) are at their most…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kyle A. Wright, Raymond Greenberg
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The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) reduces and protects…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C.J. Greenholt, Peter Tensmeyer, Ethan Bodnaruk
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In May 2004 the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration established the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William Karl Pitts
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Authentication of systems with an information barrier that protects sensitive information is difficult; in particular, the information…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Zentner, Zoe Gastelum,
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The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) Nuclear Energy System Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection Evaluation Methodology…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Howell, Mitsutoshi Suzuki, Joseph F. Longo, Tom Burr, Claire Longo
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One option for monitoring solutions in tanks as a complement to nuclear materials accounting is to identify and monitor activities in each…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Peter Schillebeeckx, M. Flaska, S.A. Pozzi, Liviu-Cristian Mihailescu
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Capture-gated detectors are suitable for neutron spectroscopy in mixed neutron and gamma-ray fields. This is because they are less prone to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Stange, E.A. McKigney, A. Couture, T. M. McCleskey, R. Gilbertson, L. Brown, R. Reifarth, Ernst Esch, Rico E. Del Sest
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Measurement of the neutron capture cross-sections of a number of short-lived isotopes would advance both pure and applied scienti?c…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard O. Menlove, Tae-Hoon Lee, Sang-Yoon Lee
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A passive neutron coincidence counter for the nuclear material measurement of the Advanced Spent Fuel Conditioning Process (ACP) has been…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan M. Krichinsky, Jonathan W. Hickerson
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Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has the potential to revolutionize the tracking of high value assets such as UF6 cylinders…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.G. Schaaff, V.F. Belt, S.J. Bobrowski
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The Y-12 National Security Complex is a multiprogram US-DOE/NNSA site specializing in the handling, storage, production and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James Poorbaugh
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The Comprehensive Analysis of Safeguards Strategies (COMPASS) process ensures the effectiveness of the MC&A program by analyzing the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. J. Decman, Tzu-Fang Wang, Morgan Burks, A. Dougan, Jerome Verbeke, L. Mihailescu
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A feasibility study has been performed to determine the potential usefulness of Compton imaging as a tool for design information…