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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nedialko B. Dimitrov, Dennis P. Michalopoulos, Michael V. Nehme, Gregory G. Thoreson
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We describe a stochastic interdiction model on a transportation network consisting of two adversaries: a nuclear-material smuggler and an…
Type:JNMM
Volume:36
Issue:2
Author(s):Chris Pickett, Cameron Coates
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In fall 2006, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) hostedan INMM-sponsored International Workshop on Best Practicesin Material Holdup…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hee-Sung Shin, Kwang-June Park
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High density polyethylene (HDPE) is degraded due to a radation-induced oxidation when it is used as a neutron moderater in a neutron…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bradley M. Loftin, Glenn Abramczyk, James M. Shuler, Robert G. Bellinger
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During normal operations at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Hanford, WA, drugstore beetles, (Stegobium paniceum (L.) Coleoptera…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Zarling, Peter Johnson
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Soon there will be only 14 states in two compacts that are able to dispose of Low Level Waste (LLW): the Northwest and Rocky Mountain…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jean-Charles Hubinois, Sonia de Boyer d'Eguilles, Guénaëlle Coindet, Armelle Collardey, Alain Godot
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Non intrusive and non destructive determination of tritium in large volume samples has been achieved for many years by calorimetry at CEA…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Victor Pitel, Andrey Stepashko, Alexey Lavrushin, Esther Ku
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A tamper-indicating device (TID), used in conjunction with appropriate procedures for control, accounting, and surveillance, is a tool used…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard L. Donovan, Barbara R. Stone
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During the past year, the Office of Security Policy has aggressively pursued the goal of significantly improving the DOE safeguards and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joe Watts, Paul Smith, Mary L. Remerowski, Wayne A. Punjak, Obie W. Gillispie, Larry G. Peppers, David A. Prochnow, Jenifer A. Hoffman, Diana J. Sena, Jackie Bustamante
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The Department of Energy (DOE) plans an aggressive program of consolidation and disposition of nuclear material (NM) among all facilities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jongsook Kim, Young-Wook Lee
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ROK government has recently been making best efforts to improve and strengthen notational WMD nonproliferation export control system…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Frank N. von Hippel
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The Bush Administration has proposed that U.S. spent power-reactor fuel be reprocessed instead of being sent directly to a deep underground…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Bari, Meng Yue, Lap-Yan Cheng
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The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) emphasizes proliferation resistance and physical protection (PR&PP) as a main goal for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V. P. Bushmelev, S. S. Zhikharev, V. I. Yuferev, J. Kuzminski, K. Hogan, J. McKisson
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The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF), founded in 1946 at the historic village of Sarov, in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Kuzminski, T. Zhantikin, A. Kim, J. Pope, K. Young
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There has been an extended program of United States Department of Energy/Nuclear Regulatory Commission support in Kazakhstan in developing…
Type:JNMM
Volume:36
Issue:4
Author(s):James E. Lovett
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In 1946, in the aftermath of World War II, the U.S. Congressquickly crafted the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. The Act chargedthe Atomic Energy…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Oleg Bukharin, Joseph Rivers
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has licensed two Category I fuel cycle facilities that store and process Category I quantities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sara Pozzi, Andreas Enqvist, Marek Flaska
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We present an improved method for measuring time-correlated neutron and photon events from fission sources. These correlations are unique…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Oddou, J. Chevillon
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The Bruyeres-Le-Chatel research center is going through a period of dismantling and clean-up. Some equipments cannot be moved and are…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas Burr, Kevin Kuhn, Diane Tompkins
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Measurement error modeling is crucial to any assay method. Realistic error models prioritize efforts to reduce key error components and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bernhard Droste, S. Komann, D. Rittscher
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In the course of decommissioning of power plants in Germany large nuclear components (steam generator, reactor pressure vessel) must be…