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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul Nelson, William S. Charlton, Taraknath Woddi V. K, Jean Ragusa
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Given the recent steps toward civil nuclear cooperation between the US and the Government of India a necessity for assessing India’s…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.W MacArthur, Pete Karpius, Duc T. Vo, Jonathan L. Thron
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A time-measurement system can be built based on the ratio of gamma-ray peak intensities from two radioactive isotopes. The ideal system…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Giuseppe Forasassi, A. Orsini, R. Bove, S. Boria
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ENEA is designing a new package, called CESM, to store and transport to the final disposal all the radioactive sources collected from many…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Philip C. Durst
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A project sponsored by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop conceptual safeguards approaches for the new…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Keith Freier, Kyle A. Wright, Gregory A. Herdes
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has developed a macro security strategy that not only addresses traditional physical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joel Grimm
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The U.S. Department of Energy recovers excess and unwanted radioactive sealed sources in the United States through its Offsite Source…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Olga Y. Mafra Guidicini, 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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The United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Carlson
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From the outset of the nuclear era it was recognised that an effective non-proliferation regime depends on maintaining effective control…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Michael Whitaker, Brian Boyer, John Valente, K. Michel, J. Determan, Dave Bracken
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The U.S. Support Program to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safeguards sponsors five advanced training courses for IAEA…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Don Glidewell, David Saltiel, Gary Rochau, Benjamin B. Cipiti, George T. Baldwin, Paul E. Rexroth, Tom A. Sellers
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The rapid growth of nuclear energy and the potential deployment of advanced facilities raise questions about the ability of the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Wenzel Brücher, Reinhard Martens, G. Pretzsch, Florentin Lange, Oliver Nolte, Wolfgang Koch, Andreas Holzwarth
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A sabotage attack with a shaped charge to a transport and storage cask containing vitrified highlevel waste (HLW) could result in the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Rajesh Garg, Reinhard Menzel
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The transport of radioactive materials occurs through various transportation modes such as air, sea, road and rail. The design and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. M. Bezhunov, S. A. Bogdanov, V. V. Talanov, S. V. Rusanov
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One of the important tasks of NMC&A at radiochemical sites is the control of Pu in holdup. Implementation of this task is restricted by…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Orpet J. M. Peixoto, Hugo E. Vicens
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The application of safeguards at Natural Uranium Conversion Plants (NUCP) has been traditionally based on the definition of the starting…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Philips, R.D. McElroy, E. Alvarez, P M J Chard, S. Croft
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The failure of the point model for highly multiplying Pu metal items is largely a result of the fact that at larger masses the leakage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L.M. Farrington
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The World Nuclear Transport Institute (WNTI) set up an Industry Task Force in 2005 to explore the possibility of developing an Industry…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael M. Curtis
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Other than the addition of environmental sampling, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, or Agency) inspections at gas centrifuge…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.F. Villani, S. Croft, S.C. Kane, R. Venkataraman, Robert J. Estep, P McClay, W. F. Mueller
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Accurate assay of dense heterogeneous waste forms by high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopic techniques is made especially challenging by…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Philips, S. Croft, R. Venkataraman, H. Zhu
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A general purpose Segmented Gamma Box Counter is a large scale, high-resolution segmented gamma-ray nondestructive assay system for the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rebecca Stevens, Michael A. Flagg, J. David Robertson, John Gahl, Ralph Butler, Doug Berning, Vladimir Cisar
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Proper accounting and control methodologies are critical components of a state’s international safeguards obligations. The U.S. Department…