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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Erwin Galdoz, Osvaldo Cristallini, José A. Perrotta, Adolfo Esteban
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The ABACC-Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials performs safeguard inspections jointly with the IAEA-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Owen B. Drury, Jonathan G. Dreyer, Stephan Friedrich
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Superconducting ultra-high energy resolution Gamma-ray spectrometers can improve the accuracy of non-destructive analysis in nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. E. Tanner, Morris S. Good, James R. Skorpik, Leslie J. Kirihara, Kevin L. Gervais
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Ultrasonic intrinsic tagging (UIT) is a robust, counterfeit-resistant technology for uniquely identifying an item. A UIT advantage is that…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Anita M. Patricio, John Kinney, Tom Ellacott
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Unannounced inspections (UIs) for the verification of spent fuel (SF) transfers are an important component of the integrated safeguards (IS…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander A. Solodov, C. Gariazzo
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Gunnink, Steven F. Saavedra, Steven E. Smith, Alexander A. Solodov
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Major detector technologies currently being used for gamma-ray spectroscopy in safeguards applications include systems based on sodium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Duc T. Vo, Erwin Galdoz, Osvaldo Cristallini, Steven E. Smith, Alexander A. Solodov, Brent McGinnis, Tzu-Fang Wang, Jose Augusto Perrotta, Max Facchinetti, Fábio Cordeiro Dias, Paulo Rogério Pinto Coelho
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael O’Brien, Phillip Gibbs, Jose Rodriquez, Scott Roecker, Tom Wander, Liu Daming
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Leendert Bevaart, Heikki Saukkonen, Kaluba Chitumbo, Vladimir Rukhlo, Christophe Creusot, Adedapo Odulaja, Bruce Moran
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In designing integrated safeguards approaches, the International Atomic Energy Agency actively gives consideration to the broader use of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C G Wilkins, E. Alvarez, P M J Chard, R. Glover
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William S. Charlton, Howard O. Menlove, Martyn T. Swinhoe, A.M. LaFleur
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sara Pozzi, Marek Flaska, Peter Schillebeeckx
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Amy Wilson
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Implementation of Safeguards First Principles Initiative (SFPI) must include evaluation of program effectiveness. The COMPASS model,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Melanie Beighle
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark K. Snell
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bruce Meppen, Tom Bean, Mary Alice Thom
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A Nuclear Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) Functional Model has been developed to describe MC&A systems at facilities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.F. Villani, S. Croft, N. Menaa
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The non-destructive quantification of Pu for waste and safeguards is widely performed using passive neutron correlation counting…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander Glaser, Stefan Burger
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Frank N. von Hippel
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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…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Bruce Varnado
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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…