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Author(s):R. E. Koenig, Eric V. Fitzgerald
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This paper will examine the implementation of scene-change detection and radio frequency technology within a Dual Containment /…
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Author(s):Bill Chambers, R. E. Koenig
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In the age of decreasing budgets, manpower restrictions and work place efficiencies, it is imperative that Government Owned Contractor…
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Author(s):Kwan-Kyoo Choe
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This paper is dealing with essentially how the Additional Protocol to the comprehensive safeguards agreement of INFCIRC/153 was implemented…
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Author(s):Tracy R. Wenz, D.W MacArthur, D.W MacArthur, Kate Frame, Kate Frame, Kate Frame, Phillip A. Hypes, Philip Hypes, Philip Hypes, T.R. Wenz, T.R. Wenz, Richard Siebelist, Richard Siebelist, Richard Siebelist, Duncan MacArthur, Gary Herrera, Gary Herrera, Gary Herrera, Caroline Mason, Caroline Mason, Caroline Mason
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A major issue in international safeguards of nuclear materials is the ability to verify that processes and materials in nuclear facilities…
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Author(s):Jonathan Sanborn
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The IAEA has concluded that the basis for safeguards implementation under integrated safeguards should be a “state-level approach,”…
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Author(s):Karyn R. Durbin, Stephen V. Mladineo
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In April 2004, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1540, effectively criminalizing the proliferation of…
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Author(s):T. E. Sampson
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Plutonium dioxide (PuO2) standards are often used both as heat standards and isotopic standards for calorimetric assay. Calorimetric assay…
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Author(s):M.A.C. Hotchkis, D. Child, Megan Williams
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High sensitivity analyses of fission products and actinides have important applications in monitoring environmental radioactivity and in…
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Author(s):James Rackham, Tracey Shaw, Thomas Dockray, Simon Morgan
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Accurate determination of the U235 content of Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) wastes generated during retrieval operations at BNFL's…
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Author(s):Wayne Ruhter, John Kerr
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The Multi-Group Analysis (MGA) code is widely used to determine nondestructively the relative isotopic abundances of plutonium by gamma-ray…
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Author(s):R. Abedin-Zadeh, N. Khlebnikov, M. Aparo, G. Bosler
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Traditionally, the International Atomic Energy Agency (“IAEA” or “the Agency”) has relied on accounting, radiation detection-based non-…
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Author(s):Thomas Kiess, Robert Budnitz, Douglas Duncan, Jeffrey Williams
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is responsible for obtaining regulatory…
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Author(s):Kory Budlong-Sylvester, Joseph F. Pilat
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Following the 1998 nuclear tests in South Asia and later reinforced by North Korean, Libyan and Iranian nuclear activities, there has been…
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Author(s):Matthew Bunn
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Effective systems and procedures to ensure security for nuclear warheads and weapons-usable nuclear materials are expensive and often…
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Author(s):D. Dickman, C. Crawford, B. Ryazanov, V. Goryunov, V. Shapsha
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During the past 10 years of collaboration under the U.S.-Russian Materials Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program great…
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Author(s):Laercio Vinhas, Orpet J. M. Peixoto
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The application of safeguards in sensitive installations is always a balanced task where the safeguards organization must accomplish their…
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Author(s):V.R. Casella, R. A. Sigg
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A Small Column Ion Exchange (SCIX) system, designed by the Oak Ridge and Savannah River National Laboratories (ORNL and SRNL), is a…
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Author(s):Dr. Andrei Stavrov, Boris M. Kuzhevskij
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The increasing threat of the illicit proliferation of nuclear and radioactive materials in the territories of different states and across…
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Author(s):Bernard Wishard, M. Aparo, Mike White, Michael Ondrik
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The IAEA has developed an approach to retaining the serviceability of surveillance equipment at facilities that have previously installed…
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Author(s):Vladimir Afanasyev, V. I. Sinaevsky, P.E. Churkin
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Blend Down Monitoring System (BDMS) was successfully installed at the Enrichment Plant (EP) of the Siberian Group of Chemical Enterprises (…