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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Takayuki Tamura
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In order to implement accurate material accountancy at large reprocessing plant like Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (RRP), it is necessary to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Erwin Galdoz, Osvaldo Cristallini, José A. Perrotta, Max Fachinetti
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The ABACC (Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials) uses the system MMCG (Mini Multi-Channel analyzer…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V. Yu. Chukov, V.I. Prostakov, A.V. Bushlia, A. P. Kydryashov
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Top-priority for the problem of secure nuclear materials (NM) management is a keystone requirement for further development of nuclear power…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven E. Smith, Alexander A. Solodov, Fábio Cordeiro Dias, Marcos S. Grund, Ana Claudia Raffo Caiado
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The MGAU is a software tool for conducting uranium enrichment measurements based on highresolution gamma-ray spectroscopy. The code is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G.G.M. Cojazzi, G. Renda, J-S. Choi
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This paper presents the preliminary qualitative analysis of a misuse scenario of the baseline system design of the Example Sodium Fast…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Pomeroy, G.G.M. Cojazzi, Robert Bari, Edward Wonder, Michael Zentner, Echkard Haas, Thomas Killeen, Jeremy Whitlock
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Over the past several years, the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) has been developing an evaluation methodology for proliferation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joe Watts, David Prochnow, Paul Smith
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, is operated by the Los Alamos National Security, LLC for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Parrish Staples, John Creasy
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The Office of Global Threat Reduction’s (GTRI) Conversion Program develops and implements the technology necessary to enable the conversion…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Matthew J. O'Hara, Philip C. Durst, Jay W. Grate, Oleg B. Egorov
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Identification and quantification of specific alpha- and beta-emitting radionuclides in complex liquid matrices is highly challenging, and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Elwood, Richard Brown, Cristen Duncan, Glenn Hammond, Bruce Jensen, Edward Owings, William Brunsdon, Mario Fontana, William Kenna, Lev Neymotin, Charles Roche
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The Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) System Effectiveness Tool (MSET) was introduced at the Institute of Nuclear Materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Michael Whitaker, Rose Ann Babcock, John Murphy
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A reasonable expectation regarding the nuclear energy renaissance is that the location of fuel cycle nuclear materials throughout the world…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Norm Cole, Anatoliy Galkin
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This paper summarizes the history of the joint U.S.-Kazakhstan BN-350 Spent Fuel Disposition Program following the shutdown of the BN-350…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Philips, A. Bosko, S. Croft
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The enrichment of items containing thick homogeneous uranium materials of known chemical composition is routinely determined non-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James M. Shuler, Daniel Leduc, Tse-tsu Wu, Robert W. Watkins, Jeffery England, Cecil May
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This paper presents the review process, performed by the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) Staff comprising the Packaging…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Neal Mowery
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Building 9201-5 at Y-12 National Security Complex has been a mainstay for many production activities since the 1940s. Now, in its seventh…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeffrey S. Allender, Edwin N. Moore, Scott H. Davies
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The United States (U.S.) has identified 61.5 metric tons (MT) of plutonium that is permanently excess to use in nuclear weapons programs,…
Type:JNMM
Volume:37
Issue:1
Author(s):Michael Weber
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Following the principle that the past is prologue to the future, areview of the history of events and trends in the safeguards programfor…
Type:JNMM
Volume:37
Issue:1
Author(s):Roger Howsley
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I should like to thank the INMM for this excellent opportunityto bring the annual meeting up to date on the World Institute forNuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ethan Bodnaruk, Ioanna Iliopoulos, Susan Rhodes
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Radioactive materials are widely used for industrial, research, and medical purposes. Devices containing radioactive sources include blood…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeff Combs
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A lot has happened since HEU-derived supplies were introduced into the commercial nuclear fuel market. In the 1990s, the market was…