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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Sarah Fourgeaud, Jean Desquines, Marie-Thérèse LIZOT, Marc Petit, Christophe GETREY
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A synthesis on the mechanical characteristics of unirradiated and irradiated fuel rod claddings was performed by IRSN in order to have…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Peter C. Purcell
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Packages transporting Light Water Reactor (LWR) fuel in the public domain must comply with IAEA Transport Regulations, which state safety…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Haghighat, W. Vernetson, J Stillman
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A core conversion from highly-enriched uranium (HEU) to low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel was conducted at the University of Florida (UF)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tzu-Fang Wang, G. Price Russ
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The IAEA has expressed a need for improved determination of gamma emitting nuclides in environmental samples collected during inspections…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Donald A. Close, Tom Hill, Calvin E. Moss, K. D. Ianakiev, T. Marks, B S Alexandrov, Dale Murray, D. A. Dale, H. Nguyen
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Enrichment monitors that are based on a NaI(Tl) spectrometer and a transmission source are very sensitive to errors in the intensity of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):George F. Vandegrift, Edward T. Fei
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Molybdenum-99 (99Mo) is the most commonly used medical isotope in the world, with an estimated usage of 20-25 million procedures performed…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jill Cooley, N. Whiting, W Bush, I Tsvetkov, D Hurt, M. Burmester
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The basic safeguards approach for commercial gas centrifuge enrichment plants (GCEPs) was established by the Hexapartite Safeguards Project…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H. Lambert, W. J. O'Connell, C. F. Guenther, H. A. Elayat
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As part of an ongoing effort at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to enhance analytical models that simulate enrichment and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Morag Smith, D.W MacArthur, Pete Karpius, Jonathan L. Thron, Kate Frame, William Clay, Peter Santi
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Conventional neutron-multiplicity counters (NMCs) employ 3He tubes embedded in polyethylene for the nondestructive assay (NDA) of plutonium…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Alastair A. Brown
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Transporting fresh MOX fuel and other category 1 cargoes from the United Kingdom to Continental Europe presents some significant…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kevin D. Seager, Igor Kostenko, Yuri Sokolov
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One of the thrusts for exchanging technical information under the U.S.-Russia Warhead Safety and Security Exchange (WSSX) Agreement is the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Greg Morandin, Siavash Khajehpour, Eric Freeman
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Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has designed a new Type B(U) Multi-Purpose Transportation Package (MPTP) that will be capable of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Pierre Malesys
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Packages for the transport of radioactive material have to comply with national and / or international regulations. These regulations are…
Type:JNMM
Volume:36
Issue:1
Author(s):S. D. Clarke, Sara Pozzi, Enrico Padovani
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For accelerator-based active interrogation systems, direct simulationof multiplicity distributions with the Monte Carlo method isdifficult…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sara Pozzi, Enrico Padovani, S. D. Clarke, T. J. Downar
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For accelerator-based active interrogation systems, direct simulation of multiplicity distributions with the Monte Carlo method is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas J. Criddle, Charles J. Temus
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A multipurpose fresh fuel package was developed to handle both transportation requirements as well as plant storage requirements. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rose Ann Babcock, Constance McAninch
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The control and tracking of nuclear material being used for peaceful purposes is the corner stone to the success of a strong non-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Venkata V.R. Venigalla, Miles Greiner
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Light water reactor nuclear fuel assemblies consist primarily of fuel rods held in square arrays by periodic spacer plates. The rods…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Srinivasan, B. Srinivasan, Michael Soriano
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The New Brunswick Laboratory has been tasked by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to administer an “inter-laboratory” control…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. L. Cochran, R. E. Valiga
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A non-invasive method is needed to measure the uranium content in material caught in traps that are part of dry vacuum systems at the Y-12…