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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jacques Baute
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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s experience in Iraq certainly reached a turning point in March 2003 when its team, together with…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):L. David Lambert, William J. Toth, Charlie Harmon, Alexei Khoudykin
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An identified goal for the Department of Energy’s nonproliferation programs is to encourage the development of Russian Federation (RF)…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Charles W. Forsberg, Paul M. Swaney, Terry N. Tiegs
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Cermets are being investigated as an advanced material of construction for casks that can be used for storage, transport, or disposal of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.F. Villani, R. Venkataraman
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The Tomographic Gamma Scanner (TGS) uses high-resolution gamma spectrometry to nondestructively assay radioactive items. Attenuation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Douglas J. Ammerman, K.W. Gwinn
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A recent paper by Ammerman et al. [1] investigated a set of actual transportation accidents and compared them to the hypothetical accident…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A.A. Brown, M. Hartenstein, M. Nawano
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 in New York and Washington (9/11) have increased government, public and media concern over…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Matthew R. Feldman, Kim D. Handy
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The DPP-2 is a Type B fissile material shipping package developed by the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 2002–03…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Frank-Michael Börst, Ingo Reiche, Holger Thiele
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The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) as the competent authority for package design approval in Germany is using the SCALE code…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ho-Dong Kim, Won-Il Ko
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This study compares plutonium inventory and self-protecting of DUPIC (Direct Use of Spent PWR Fuel in CANDU) fuel cycle with other fuel…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. Gary Eller, Larry R. Avens, William D. Stanbro
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To a considerable extent, policy decisions on nuclear fuel cycle issues depend upon how decision makers recognize and weigh “long-term” and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. Schwalbach, Ibrahim Cherradi, G. Bosler, P. Peerani
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The FRM-II reactor is a high-flux research reactor operated by the Technische Universitaet Munchen (TUM) at the Garching Research Centre (…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V. Maltsev, Vitaliy Zuev, Galina R. Arkhipovskaya, Elena V. Markova
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nuclear power plants of the Russian Federation. It is known that all nuclear power plants have nearly similar processing areas, nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Lambert, William J. Toth, Dr. Rekha S. Pillai, Robert Gibson, Dr. Cheng Liu, Mary Elliott
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Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A) systems are being deployed at several Russian Navy nuclear fresh fuel storage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Roland Hüggenberg, Karl Klein, Jiri Holub
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Since 1979 experience is gained with the design, licensing, fabrication and application of transport- and storage casks made of ductile…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.I. Il’kaev, V.Z. Matveev, A.I. Morenko, V.I. Shapovalov, A.G. Semenov, V.M. Sergeyev, V.K. Orlov, V.V. Shatalov, V.A. Seredenko, V.T. Gotovchikov, M. Jonathan Haire, C. W. Forsberg
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The report is devoted to the problem of creation of a new generation of multi-purpose universal transport cask with advanced safety, aimed…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sergei Blagin, Dimitri Moroskin, Rustem Samigulin, Vladimir V. Angilopov, A. Shevtsov
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This report presents a conceptual design for the remote monitoring system (RMS) for the storage of fissile materials. The RMS is being…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Walter Völzer, Sabine König, Karl Klein, Chi-Fung Tso, Sarah Owen, Christopher Monk
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The CONSTOR? family of steel-concrete-steel sandwich cask designs have been developed to fulfil both the internationally valid IAEA…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Sabine König, Rudolf Diersch, Thomas Quercetti
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The CONSTOR® steel-sandwich cask was developed as a cost-effective design by using conventional mechanical engineering technologies and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hitoshi TOBITA, Kenji Araki
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Spent fuel transportable storage casks usually have a double lid closure system, which consists of primary and secondary lids, and gaskets…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jerry O’Leary, Thomas Gary Clark, Melinda L. Adams, Thomas L. Williams
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This paper describes a safeguards approach that can be deployed at any modern plutonium processing facility to increase the level of…