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Major challenges in the area of wet transportation of radioactive materials are reliability and safety of transportation casks. In most…
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CEA has initiated a ten-year programme (2001-2010), the EMBAL plan, to renew its radioactive transport cask fleet. This will allow to…
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A two-dimensional finite volume model of a 21 PWR Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC) inside a rail cask was constructed. In that cask, fuel is…
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Work on the implementation of Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Operations Monitoring (MOM) systems at Federal Atomic…
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In the 1990's, the Institute, being aware of changes in government policies, conducted an analysis of projected government acquisitions;…
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Current guidance considers highly radioactive special nuclear materials to be those materials that, unshielded, emit a radiation dose [rate…
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In the interdiction of illicitly trafficked Special Nuclear Material (SNM) the neutron signal is a valuable adjunct to the gamma-ray…
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To address the need for high resolution detection systems to be used in portal monitors and mobile search systems, an integrated gamma ray…
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This article presents early results from Monte Carlo radiation transport calculations aimed at characterizing a novel methodology being…
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Sandia National Laboratories is investigating the application of a rigorous statistical, model-based test and evaluation methodology for…
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The 212-N Building at the Hanford Site held fifteen large crates containing glove boxes and process equipment associated with the…
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The performance of shock absorbers has been tested in specific regulatory drop tests onto an unyielding target at the BAM drop test…
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The Canadian Safeguards Support Program (CSSP) is actively investigating techniques to exploit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery for…
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As part of its mandate, the Canadian Safeguards Support Program (CSSP) is responsible for providing assistance to the IAEA in knowledge…
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Over the past years, the continuous increase of burn-up of the used fuel has resulted in higher constraints for the design of transport or…
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An article of similar title was published in the International Journal of Radioactive Materials Transport in 1999. The study concluded that…
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This paper presents a comparison between full-scale prototype and reduced-scale model drop test data in regard to similarity mechanics.…
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For the licensing of type B(U) packages according to the IAEA regulations, it has to be demonstrated that the integrity of the confinement…
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Currently there are three packages approved by the NRC for U.S. domestic shipments of fissile quantities of UF6: NCI-21PF-1, UX-30, and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
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COMPUCEA is a transportable system for accurate on-site analytical measurements of uranium elemental assay and enrichment during the…