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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Houston G. Wood, Stephanos Tongelidis
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Research has been conducted to investigate the maximum possible enrichment that might be temporarily achieved in a facility that is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark M. Pickrell, S. Tobin, Scott F. Demuth, Justin E. Doak, Kristen Klasky
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New concepts have been, and continue to be, proposed for safeguarding uranium gas centrifuge enrichment plants (GCEPs)[1]. As new materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W. J. O'Connell, H. A. Elayat, B. D. Boyer
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is interested in developing tools and methods for potential U.S. use in designing and evaluating…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. Mendelsohn, I. Bolshinsky
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Beginning December 1999, and continuing to the present, representatives from the United States, the Russian Federation, and the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ioanna Iliopulos
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The International Radiological Threat Reduction (IRTR) program works in cooperation with foreign counterparts and international agencies to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Radek Skoda
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The research reactor \"SPARROW\" was converted from the Russian made IRT-3M fuel containing highly-enriched uranium (HEU, enrichment: 36 %…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jason Hatfield
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In today’s environment, safe and secure storage of our nation’s nuclear assets is of paramount importance. As such, the Department of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lodewijk van der Berg, Kenneth R. Pohl
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A lightweight, rugged and watertight hand-held instrument has been developed which incorporates a mercuric iodide detector for gamma ray…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):F.S. Moore, V. R. Casella, R. A. Dewberry, R. A. Sigg
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Visual Examination (VE) gloveboxes are used at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to remediate transuranic waste (TRU) drums. Noncompliant items…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Pablo Adelfang, Ira Goldman
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The IAEA has been assisting Member States in efforts to convert research reactors from using HEU to LEU fuel and to return the HEU fuel to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Rooney
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The Office of Radiological Threat Reduction has undertaken cooperative efforts with the IAEA on projects ranging from regulatory…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Gayla Balatsky, William Severe
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The need to stop the illicit trafficking of nuclear and radioactive materials is undeniable and urgent. Particular so, given the high…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Susan E. Pepper, Catherine Osiecki
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The U.S. Support Program began funding an internship program in the IAEA Department of Safeguards in 2002. Since that time, 40 U.S.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Susan A. Caskey, Tim Draelos, Keith Tolk
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Quality assurance of data can be achieved using a one-way mathematical process that utilizes a hashing algorithm to provide data integrity…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Karen W. McCulloch
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With the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), new impacts to the Nuclear Materials Control and Accountability world are introduced.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William T. Pratt, Joseph Carbonaro, Robert M. White, James A. Coffing, Lorilee Brownell, V. P. Kalinin, K. A. Konoplev
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The Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program has been working since 1994 with nuclear sites in Russia to upgrade the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Victor Sirotjuk, Sergei Postnov
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In 2004, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PNPI) began implementation of the first phase of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas Bonner, Yuri Kharlanov, Alexander Gorbach, L. Wangen, Michael Bonner
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The State Scientific Center of Russian Federation, Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (RIAR) is located near Dimitrovgrad in the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. A. \"Keith\" Pilcher
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The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) highly enriched uranium (HEU) Transfer Program was established to facilitate placement of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dennis R. Weier, C A LoPresti, J H Ely, D J Bates, R T Kouzes
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Radiation portal monitors are being used to detect radioactive target materials in vehicles transporting cargo. As vehicles pass through…