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Type:JNMM
Volume:38
Issue:1
Author(s):Olli Heinonen
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Since 1957 the International AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA) has worked tobring the benefits of nuclear technology tohumankind, while at the…
Type:JNMM
Volume:38
Issue:1
Author(s):Charles B. Curtis
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Thank you. It is a special honor to have aplace at the podium at the 50th AnnualMeeting of the Institute of NuclearMaterials Management.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. A. \"Keith\" Pilcher, Jeffrey G. Arbital, Larry Roberson
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The U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Specification 6M containers had been the workhorse for the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Takaumi Kimura, T. Hina, Yasushi MIURA, Koichi ISHIYAMA, Junichi Fukuhara
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Regarding the Integrated Safeguards (IS) for JNC-1 site which consists of six facilities such as Reprocessing plant, MOX fuel fabrication…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Takashi Asano, Shigeo Fujiwara, Taketeru Nagatani
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories (JNC-1 site) of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) consists of six facilities including the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. D. Clarke, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, S. A. Pozzi, M.M. Bourne, M.M. Bourne, A, Gueorguiev, A, Gueorguiev
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The detection of characteristic gamma rays is desirable for material identification because of the uniqueness of energy emissions from…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Leonid Kagan, Andrei Stavrov
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We address the operation procedures: (i) scenarios of the radiation control; (ii) possible places of installation or application of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul Smith, J. Watts, John D. Psaras, David A. Costa, Edward L. Joyce
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The storage and safekeeping of excess plutonium in the United States represents a multibilliondollar lifecycle cost to the taxpayers and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Peter Tensmeyer, Ioanna Iliopulos
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The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) is actively engaged in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Karyn Durbin, Kenneth Bromberg, Guy Lunsford
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Under a 2000 U.S.-Russia Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement, each country is obligated to dispose of at least 34 metric tons of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Whitney
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The Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI) was launched in 2008 by DOE/NNSA to develop the technologies and human expertise necessary…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Lindberg, M. Larsson, K. Axell, J. Dahlberg, J.D. Chen, D.A. Parcey, R. Kosierb, E. Sundkvist, P. Carlson
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Previous studies on the detection of partial defects focussed on the detection of a small number of missing or substituted fuel rods in a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. L. Cochran, J.A. Danzer
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A method of measuring the flow of enriched uranium (EU) through specific points in process streams based on passive gamma spectroscopy is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. A. Hausladen, S. M. McConchie, J.T. Mihalczo
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Five highly-enriched (93.2 wt% 235U) uranium (HEU) and three depleted (0.2 wt% 235U) uranium (DU) castings were available for passive time…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Philips, R.D. McElroy, M.F. Villani, C G Wilkins, S. Croft, N. Menaa, M. Newell, D. C. Jones
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Neutron multiplicity counting is a well established non-destructive assay method widely applied to the quantification of impure Pu bearing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen Goldberg, Ron S. Faibish
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Global interest in the deployment of nuclear power to meet future energy needs has been intensifying in recent years, especially in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Roger A. Lewis
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The Congress directed that the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PDCF) be transferred from the Office of Fissile Materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tomonori Iwamoto, Kousuke Yamaya, Akio Kawai, Nobuharu Sato, Tadahiro Iseki
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At Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant(RRP), the Active Test (AT) using actual pent fuels has been performed for the final confirmation of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. L. Cochran, Richard L. Moyers, J.A. Danzer, L.M. Holland
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Chemical processing of enriched uranium (EU) at the Y12 National Security Complex involves the use of complex material storage and movement…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Andrew Worrall
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In April 2005, the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) took ownership of most of the civil nuclear liabilities and assets in the UK…