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The ABACC-Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials performs safeguard inspections jointly with the IAEA-…
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Superconducting ultra-high energy resolution Gamma-ray spectrometers can improve the accuracy of non-destructive analysis in nuclear…
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Ultrasonic intrinsic tagging (UIT) is a robust, counterfeit-resistant technology for uniquely identifying an item. A UIT advantage is that…
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Unannounced inspections (UIs) for the verification of spent fuel (SF) transfers are an important component of the integrated safeguards (IS…
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The aging of the nuclear nonproliferation workforce means that in the coming years there will be a dire need for specialists in areas such…
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Major detector technologies currently being used for gamma-ray spectroscopy in safeguards applications include systems based on sodium…
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In April 2005, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear…
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The United States and the People’s Republic of China have been cooperating in the field of non-proliferation under the auspices of the…
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In designing integrated safeguards approaches, the International Atomic Energy Agency actively gives consideration to the broader use of…
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Two identical drum monitors were supplied by CANBERRA to the Low Level Waste Repository at Drigg in the UK. The equipment was supplied as…
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We investigated a new method to verify the concentration of fissile material in a PWR fresh fuel assembly using Self-Interrogation Neutron…
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The BC-523A detector is a boron-10-loaded liquid scintillation detector that is sensitive to not only fast neutrons and gamma rays, but…
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Implementation of Safeguards First Principles Initiative (SFPI) must include evaluation of program effectiveness. The COMPASS model,…
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The year 2007 was a turning point in the use of RF ID at a weapons complex. Pantex is the first weapons complex to test an RF ID system in…
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Path timeline models have been used in nuclear security analyses for over 20 years to calculate Probability of Interruption, PI. Whether PI…
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A Nuclear Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) Functional Model has been developed to describe MC&A systems at facilities…
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The non-destructive quantification of Pu for waste and safeguards is widely performed using passive neutron correlation counting…
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One challenge to a potential verication regime for a Fissile Material Cuto Treaty would be to conrm that a sample of nuclear-weapon-usable…
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A Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) would end the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for weapons or other nuclear…
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Vital areas are those nuclear facility areas that are protected against sabotage in order to prevent malicious acts that could lead to…