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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles Messick
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The United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE), in consultation with the Department of State, adopted the Nuclear Weapons…
Type:JNMM
Volume:34
Issue:4
Author(s):Gary K. Bertsch
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The University of Georgia (UGA) is a major research university that consistently ranks among the top twenty U.S. public universities in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tracy R. Wenz, T. E. Sampson, Duc T. Vo, G. Butler, M. Dempsey, Manuel A. Gonzales
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The ORTEC Detective is an HPGe (High-Purity Germanium)-based portable nuclide identifier designed to search for and identify…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Carey L. Larsson, Salah Djeffal
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A high degree of concern currently exists surrounding the illicit acquisition of radioactive or nuclear material by terrorist organizations…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Andes, Charles Messick
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The Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) has completed mission activities preparing for the imminent return of United States origin highly…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Carlos Lopez, Ahti Suo-Anttila
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The hypothetical thermal accident condition in 10CFR71.73 [1] requires the exposure of a Type B package to a 30-minute, fully engulfing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):N. Herber, Q.S. Bob Truong
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As part of its mandate, the Canadian Safeguards Support Program (CSSP) is responsible for providing documentation and training assistance…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Guillaume Manificat
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Both Euratom and the United States are using a system of codes to track and report foreign obligated nuclear material. Fungibility,…
Type:JNMM
Volume:35
Issue:1
Author(s):James A. Larrimore, Myron Kratzer, John Carlson, Bruce W. Moran
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While transparency has a long history of usage in arms control, the international safeguards community began to talk about “transparency…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ryoji Aso, Naoko Inoue, Keiichiro Hori, Hisaharu Dosho, Kiyokazu Ota
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“Nuclear Renaissance” is one of the words of the current fashion. The movement on the nuclear energy development in the world makes us to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Krishan Mutreja, Bradley Weil, Michael Carroll, Eduard Antonov, Dowe Dabbs
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The US DOE Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program and ECP have been jointly upgrading selected security-related…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen Mladineo, Karyn R. Durbin
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More than two years have passed since the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1540. This seminal measure…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ruth Weiner, Douglas M. Osborn
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Transportation risk assessment involves a number of parameters whose values are uncertain. RADTRAN© (hereinafter referred to simply as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher Chiego, Benjamin Cobb, Shannon Hiller, Tyler Pratt, Dan Weitz
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In April of 2004, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously approved resolution 1540, requiring all UN member states to “adopt…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, J.T. Mihalczo, Paul A. Hausladen, John S. Neal, John S. Neal, David Koltick, Charles Cooper
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An associated particle sealed tube neutron generator (APSTNG) is currently used as an interrogation source for the Nuclear Materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Randy Dunavant, Trent Andes
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The Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) recently completed recovery missions that resulted in the return of U.S.-origin highly enriched…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Victor Pitel, Andrey Stepashko, Nikolay Isaev, Krishan Mutreja, Esther Ku, Bradley Weil
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A tamper indicating device (TID), used in conjunction with appropriate procedures for control, accounting and surveillance, is a front line…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ruth Duggan, Mona Dreicer, Richard Wallace, R. Huelskamp
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During the May 2004 United States/Russian Weapons Laboratory Directors meeting, participants agreed to initiate a six-lab strategic…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Bernstein, H. Lambert, W. J. O'Connell, George T. Baldwin, Paul E. Rexroth, H. A. Elayat, N. S. Bowden, R. Huelskamp
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As described in an earlier article [1], important information regarding reactor power and the amount and type of fissile material in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Smoot, Alexander Vereshchaga, Vitaliy Dubinin
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To provide for the safety and security of fissile materials in the process of nuclear weapons dismantlement, technologies based on non-…