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MATERIAL CONTROL AND SURVEILLANCE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY ACCESS VAULTS PROJECT
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christina Files, Rebecca Stevens, Rebecca Stevens, G. Butler, G. Butler, Benny Martinez, Benny Martinez, Victoria L. Longmire, Victoria L. Longmire, Chris Pickett, John Y. Huang, Janelle Dunnigan, Janelle Dunnigan, Jane Gaby, Roger Lawson, Roger Lawson, J.R. Younkin, Chris A. Pickett
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The “Material Control and Surveillance for High Frequency Access Vaults” project sponsored by United States Department of Energy’s Office…
MC&A System Changes in Support of Site Closure
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brenda R. Douglass, Fred L. Lyons, Sheila A. Doty
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The Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS) is now a Closure Site on an accelerated closure schedule. Closure not only involves…
MCNP-POLIMI SIMULATION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS ON URANIUM AND PLUTONIUM OBJECTS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, John K. Mattingly, Sara Pozzi, E. Padovani
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ABSTRACT This paper presents the validation of the Monte Carlo code MCNP-PoliMi for the simulation of nuclear safeguards experiments with…
MEASUREMENTS OF SPENT FUEL USING THE RRFC-II
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.P. Belian, Mark E. Abhold, William C. Harker, W. Belew
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Measurement of the fissile content of foreign-returned Material Test Reactor (MTR) spent fuel is one of the most important safeguards…
Measures for Strengthening Nuclear Material Control and Accounting and Physical Protection of Nuclear Installations in the Russian Federation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yuri Volodin, Boris Krupchatnikov, Alexander Sanin
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This paper provides a brief overview of measures that have been taken in the Russian Federation to strengthen security of nuclear materials…
MEASURING IN-PROCESS INVENTORY BY SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Victoria Longmire, D.H. Beddingfield, A.P. Belian, P.A. Russo, Kevin D. Veal, V.A. Hatler
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A commercial, scintillator-based gamma-ray spectroscopic imaging system has measured the plutonium in-process inventory in a continuous-…
METHODOLOGIES OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION RESISTANCE ASSESSMENT FOR NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE OPTIONS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroshi Takeda, Naoko Inoue, M. Hori, Keiichiro Hori
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The Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) has investigated a commercialized fast reactor cycle to make the maximum use of its…
Methodology for Vulnerability Assessments of Material Control and Accounting Systems at NRC Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rebecca Stevens, David D. Wilkey, Barbara J. Sinkule, Joshua Joseph, Jr.
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In 2003, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requested that Los Alamos National Laboratory perform independent vulnerability…
METHODOLOGY TO OPTIMIZE AND INTEGRATE SAFEGUARDS SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS IN LARGE NUCLEAR PROCESSING FACILITIES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Humberto E. Garcia, Tae-Sic Yoo
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Maintaining continuity-of-knowledge (COK) is an important monitoring strategy for complementing safeguards measures based on nuclear…
Mitigation of Non-Fixed Cesium Surface Contamination on Spent-Fuel Transport Packages – Confirmation of Ion Exchange Mechanism
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul E. McConnell, James Krumhansl
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A “cask weeping” incident occurs when a spent-fuel shipping cask that swiped “clean” for nonfixed contamination at the point of origin is…
MODERNIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF NMAC AT THE MAYAK RT-1 PLANT
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Janssens-Maenhout, B.G. Ryazanov, P. Frigola, S. Guardini, B. Hunt, H. Ottmar, Alexander Skobtsov, Pascal Daures, F. Gasperini
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The RT-1 plant at the PA Mayak complex of the Russian Federation is an operating nuclear reprocessing facility for civil spent fuel of VVER…
MONTE CARLO EVALUATION OF PASSIVE CORRELATION MEASUREMENTS ON CONTAINERIZED PLUTONIUM SHELLS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sara Pozzi, J.T. Mihalczo
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In previous studies the use of the Nuclear Materials Identification System (NMIS) for passive measurements on plutonium metal samples was…
MONTE CARLO EVALUATION OF THE USE OF A 14 MEV ASSOCIATED PARTICLE SEALED TUBE NEUTRON GENERATOR FOR ONE-SIDED MEASUREMENTS ON HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM SAMPLES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, Sara Pozzi
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In this paper, the Monte Carlo code MCNP-PoliMi was used to investigate the possibility of conducting active measurements on highly…
Monte Carlo simulations of neutron coincidence counting systems in passive mode
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Anne-Laure Weber, Bernard THAUREL
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Monte Carlo modelling studies of three different passive neutron-counting chambers: JCC51, JCC62 and FUNE are presented in this paper. The…
More than Loss Detection - How Financial Accounting Principles Help Us Understand the Need for Nuclear Material Control and Accountability Systems and What They Should Do
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James C. Crabtree, Joseph T. Lyons
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Abstract For a number of years, the emphasis in materials control and accountability (MC&A) policy and analysis has been very heavily…
MultiCal Version 4.0
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Morag Smith, David S. Bracken, T. Kelley
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MultiCal is a calorimeter control and data analysis software package widely used in the Department of Energy complex. A number of…
MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY FOR SAFEGUARDS AND VERIFICATION OF REMOTE URANIUM MINES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Russell Leslie, G. A. Borstad, R.A. Neville, Q.S. Bob Truong, K. Staenz, Peter Riggs, V. Bragin
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In this era of strengthened safeguards measures, and especially following the recent introduction of high-resolution satellite imagery by…
MyRIAM an active electronic online personal air sampler for Detection of a and ß radiation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Streil, V. Oeser
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MyRIAM is the acronym for My Radioactivity In Air Monitor and points out that the device was designed for personal use to detect any…
NEUTRON DETECTOR SYSTEM FOR THE FISSILE MASS FLOW MONITOR SOURCE MEASUREMENTS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Danny Powell, Radoslav Radev, Taner Uckan, Joe Glaser, J. A. March-Leuba, James D. White
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In this paper the neutron detector system (NDS) developed for the Californium-252 (252Cf) neutron source measurements of the fissile mass…
Neutron Measurement Techniques for Verification of Closely Packed Spent Fuel Assemblies Stored in a Spent Fuel Pond
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Abedin-Zadeh, Jaromir Vones, E. Gryntakis, G. Bosler, Y. Ham
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Development of an appropriate spent fuel verification methodology has been challenging for some time for a reactor that has a hard-to-…