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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David M. Gordon, Jae Jo, B. D. Boyer
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Current safeguards approaches used by the IAEA at gas centrifuge enrichment plants (GCEPs) need enhancement in order to detect undeclared…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. A. Purvis, Dr. N. Lawrence Ricker
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Renewed interest in nuclear energy has convinced the United States to reconsider fuel reprocessing. However, a need for increased national…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tracy R. Wenz, T. E. Sampson, Duc T. Vo, W. H. Geist, Jose Valdez, G. Butler, M. Dempsey, David J. Mercer, Manuel A. Gonzales, Steven C. Myers, John M. Blackadar, John A. Bounds, Scott E. Garner, David K. Miko, Brian D. Rooney
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The primary task of the TA-18 Early Move Project was to fully characterize over 1000 Category I and II items for custodial transfer from…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen V. Mladineo, Kara L. De Castro, Paul Thurmond, Gloria de Boer
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In the last ten years, the practice of nuclear material physical protection control and accounting (MPC&A) in Russia has significantly…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Janie McCowan, John M. Begovich, Michael Whitaker
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This paper identifies possible new techniques for verifying declared activities at gas centrifuge enrichment plants (GCEPs). It defines…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Keith M. Tolk, Gaurav Rajen, Michael G. Vannoni
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This paper analyzes possible implementation measures of a strategy to verify that mobile missile systems capable of delivering nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nate Schanfein
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The Virtual Facility idea is a new way for training IAEA inspectors and for laboratory workers to familiarize themselves with the buildings…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Croft, B.M. Young, Hank Zhu
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In the gamma-ray assay of containers such as 200 liter drums and large crates, several factors can contribute significantly to the total…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shannon J. Gregg
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Effective protection of any target depends on the ability of the security force to detect, assess, respond and neutralize the threat prior…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael P. Lyden, Josh K. Tackentien
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Intelligence skills, particularly in the field of open source intelligence, are essential to organizations that manage nuclear materials.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Irmgard Neimeyer
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Seeing the expected technical improvements as to the spatial and spectral resolution, satellite imagery could more and more provide a basis…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Adduci, R. Johnson, F. Monette
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Significant resource and attention have been invested in addressing the weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-issues raised by loose fissile…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Glenn Vawter
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Two years ago a U.S. Federal Court of Appeals (the Court) ruled that EPA had not followed the recommendation of the National Academy of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. Mendelsohn
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The Office of Global Nuclear Material Threat Reduction is an integral part of the Department of Energy’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. M. Bonet Duran, S. Menossi, N. Serdeiro
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The September 11th terrorist attacks on USA showed the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism is feasible. A successful attack, or…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Andrew Bieniawski, Gregory R. Cefus
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This paper summarizes the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Susan M. Hayes, Don Glidewell, Michael Whitaker, Lucia Valentino, Anibal Bonino, Claudio Gariazzo, M. Manning
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The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) of Argentina have collaborated together over the past 10 years…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Abedin-Zadeh, N. Khlebnikov, M. Aparo, G. Bosler
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (“the Agency” or “IAEA”) operates a large diversity of equipment for safeguards and nuclear security…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Eccleston, M.C. Miller, H.O. Menlove, J.B. Franco
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This paper presents a new design for a reactor gate discharge monitor that has evolved from the baseline discharge monitors used at the…
Type:JNMM
Volume:34
Issue:1
Author(s):Ming-Shih Lu, Robert Kennett
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A model to determine multi-level sample size distributions necessary to achieve certain detection goals is presented here. The model…