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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Karim BEN OUAGHREM, Marie-Thérèse Lizot
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The transport of radioactive material in France concerns the nuclear fuel cycle, the research, the medical use and inspections in civil…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Irmgard Niemeyer
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The paper gives a review on recent and future developments of commercial satellite sensor technologies in view of Treaty verification…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John M. Veilleux
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The Los Alamos National Laboratory transuranic (TRU) non-destructive assay (NDA) characterization program implemented a gamma detector “…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
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The behavior of plutonium (Pu) oxides in the presence of water/moisture in a confined environment and the associated issues of hydrogen and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Roland Carchon, Manfred Zendel, Stefan Jung, Stefan Lackner
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Design information verification (DIV) is an essential part of safeguards. The objective of DIV is to confirm the correctness and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Ehinger, J. L. Binder
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The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) represents the renaissance of nuclear energy in the United States and encourages expansion of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Q.S. (Bob) Truong, G. A. Borstad
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Verification of State Declarations requires a good knowledge of the location of facilities. Planning and conduct of on-site inspections…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Soo Hoo, Robert Martinez, Tarek F. Mohammaden, Keith Young
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More than 1990 radioactive sealed sources are used in Egypt in different applications such as, blood irradiators, radiotherapy,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles McCombie
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There have been repeated proposals for establishing multinational cooperation approaches that could reduce the security concerns of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ioanna Iliopulos
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) supports U.S. threat reduction efforts by…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Roland Carchon, P. Schwalbach, Manfred Zendel, Stefan Jung, Rudolf Hammerschmied, Isabelle Puttaert
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The hand-held gamma-ray spectrometer HM-5 has become an important and widely used tool for nuclear Safeguards inspectors. In this…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Bob Vaughan, Lyn M. Farrington
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Testing was carried out in the UK in 1986 to demonstrate the ability of two Type B packages designed to pass the 9m drop test criteria in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Deirdre Wampler, John Rodgers
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This poster will illustrate the design collaboration between LANL, Canberra and a Russian collaborator (yet to be selected) to develop a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dale R. Dunsworth
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The Nuclear Materials Management Team (NMMT), formerly known as the Inactive Actinides Working Group (IAWG), was created in April 2005 to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James Sprinkle, Duc T. Vo, W. H. Geist, Kate Frame, Jose Valdez, Marc A. Gonzalez, Dave Bracken, Lou Carrillo, G. Butler, J. Craven
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After 60 years of operating as the most important criticality experimental facility in the U.S., the Los Alamos Critical Experiments…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander M. Chlenov, V. P. Vyskubov
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One of the critical aspects of sustainability under a comprehensive nuclear security program is the coordination of all operations in the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Laurent de Raspide, Phillippe Renard
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Within the Nuclear Industry, a majority of actors are very sure of the reliability of their industrial, logistics process and organization…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):William Danker
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The most common assumption used in criticality safety analysis of spent nuclear fuel from power reactors is that spent fuel has the same…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Matti Tarvainen, E. Pujol, Philip C. Caulfield
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Following Libya’s abandonment of its nuclear weapons programme in December 2003, the International Atomic Energy Agency (the Agency) saw…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Pablo Adelfang, Ira Goldman, Alexey Lebedev, Bekhzod Yuldashev
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) seeks to facilitate progress in the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) program (U.S…