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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yu. I. Churikov, John A. Blasy, Kenneth E. Apt, L. Neymotin, Vitaliy Zuev, Sergei V. Gagarinov, Victor V. Belov, Alevtin M. Karpov, Andrei A. Korneev
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This system is developing within the US/Russian MPC&A Program. The purpose of the system is to protect nuclear materials against…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Bernd Schulz-Forberg
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The International Symposium on the Packaging and Transport of Radioactive material (RAM) started in the US in the sixties for the benefit…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch
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Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Federal government I would like to welcome you warmly to the “14th International Symposium on the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. Gary Eller, Larry R. Avens, William D. Stanbro
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The term “proliferation resistance” is used to denote many different things in the context of nuclear fuel cycles. This range of meanings…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Hawk, Ashok Kapoor, Ronald B. Natali
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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites/contractors purchase several different types of containers (such as boxes, drums, large bulk dump…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):D. Sicard, A. Verdier, P-A Monsigny
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The LEIBSTADT (KKL) nuclear power plant in Switzerland has opted to ship spent fuel to a central facility called ZWILAG for interim storage…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Olin H. Bray
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Determining requirements is often the most difficult part of system development, especially when there are many different stakeholders with…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lawrence Scheinman
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Reflecting on the state of nonproliferation and arms control in the second post cold war decade one reaches a mixed conclusion. On the one…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yuri Ishkov, V. Goryunov, B. Ryazanov
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The inventory difference is well-known to represent an effective tool of nuclear material mass safe-keeping control, specifically the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. S. Sviridov, Greg Mann, Konstantin Zimovets
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Ensuring security of fissile materials (FM) removed from nuclear warheads is one of the vital problems to be addressed under the Non-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Danny Powell, Taner Uckan, Josè March-Leuba, Joe Glaser, James D. White
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In this paper the assessment studies performed on the fissile mass flow monitor (FMFM) system for possible use of 241AmBe sealed neutron…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Julian Whichello, Christophe Creusot, S. Johnson, J. Goncalves, Bruno Chesnay, Vitor Sequeira
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To ensure adherence to their non-proliferation treaty obligations, States are required to declare design information on all new and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Abedin-Zadeh, R. Arlt
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A Co-ordinated Research Project (CRP) on “Improvement of Technical Measures to Detect and Respond to Illicit Trafficking of Nuclear and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles W. Forsberg
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The issue of safeguards and security of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is of increased international concern. Recent technical developments may…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. M. Mapili, R. I. Scherpelz
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An instrument pod has been designed and constructed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to estimate the quantity of TRU…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sharon L. Seitz, Timothy M. Talley, Phillip T. Tasker, James R. Schaefer, David M. Moore, Thomas J. Myers
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Envision a chess game in which there are millions of possible moves. A seasoned expert will quickly differentiate between a successful move…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H. Menlove, Kenneth Thomas, T.K. Li, T.L. Burr, S.Y. Lee, Ho Dong Kim, H.S. Park
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Approximately 6,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, collected over a 30-year period of commercial and research reactor operation, has…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Bernstein, C. Hagmann, J. Lund, J.K. Estrada
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A joint Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/Sandia National Laboratories collaboration has designed a cubic-meter-sized antineutrino…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph P. Indusi
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Since the events of 9/11, there have been considerable concerns and associated efforts to prevent or respond to acts of terrorism. Very…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Daniel A. Pritchard, Paula L. Knepper, Ronald F. Glaser
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This work describes the integration of a number of unattended sensors and cameras with communication links and displays for potential use…