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Continuous Monitoring of Fissile Materials Removed from Nuclear Warheads
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. S. Sviridov, Dr. Konstantin N. Zimovets, Greg Mann
Abstract:
The presentation addresses possible scenarios of managing FM removed form NW. The selected scenario consists of the three typical…
Control of Nuclear Material: MUF monitoring in French MOX fuel fabrication plants.
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Crousilles, P. Jaunet, X. Rincel
Abstract:
The fabrication in France of U+Pu mixed-oxide fuel commenced as early as 1962 in the Cadarache plant, for experimental reactor (MTR) and…
Cooperative Monitoring in Environmental and Nuclear Transparency Regional Projects
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dave Barber, George T. Baldwin, John N. Olsen, Fredrick Luetters, Kent L. Biringer
Abstract:
In recent decades, the US Department of Energy national laboratories (now operated by the National Nuclear Security Agency) have developed…
COULD TERRORISTS OR THIEVES GET WEAPONS USABLE MATERIAL FROM RESEARCH REACTORS AND FACILITIES?
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):George Bunn, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Friedrich Steinhausler
Abstract:
There is a real danger that terrorists could make nuclear weapons from the weapon-usable highly enriched uranium (HEU) used in most…
Demonstration of a Possible In-Situ Monitoring System for Large Storage Facilities for the Trilateral Initiative
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Berndt, Kevin D. Veal
Abstract:
In a large storage facility where items are placed in difficult-to-access locations, the ability to verify that items placed in the…
Demonstrative Rupture Test and Safety Evaluation of a Natural UF6 Transport Cylinder at High Temperature
Type:JNMM
Volume:30
Issue:3
Author(s):Koji Shirai, Masumi Wataru, Toshiari Saegusa
Abstract:
If a natural uranium hexafluoride (UF involved in a fire test condition as described in the new requirements from the International…
Description of An Upgrade Initiative to an Existing Nuclear Storage Vault for Storage of Plutonium Oxide
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeff Johnson, Elizabeth Joseph, William Santistevan
Abstract:
A processing group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) presented a storage challenge to a nuclear material storage facility at LANL.…
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE SANDIA IN-GROUND STORAGE VAULT
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Claude Potter, Robert P. Cutler, Thomas K. Blanchat
Abstract:
A new high-security In-Ground Storage Vault (IGSV) was designed and constructed at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) for long-term storage…
Design Concept of the Digital Unattended Multi-Channel Analyzer DIUM
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Stein, A. Georgiev
Abstract:
For a certain number of unattended monitoring applications, a custom-designed Digital Signal Processor (DSP)-based Multi-Channel Analyzer (…
Design Concept of the Electronic Optical Sealing System EOSS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. Schoop, S. Lange, G. Neumann, Roumen Tzolov, B. Richter, Michael Goldfarb, R. Mackowiak
Abstract:
The Electronic Optical Sealing System EOSS is being developed under the German Support Programme to the International Atomic Energy Agency…
DESIGN OF A SAFEGUARDS SYSTEM FOR CHERNOBYL SPENT FUEL NEW CONDITIONING AND DISPOSITION PROJECT
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Massimo Aparo, Dorel Popescu, Valerij Bytchkov, Gunter Naegele, Kenji Murakami, Giovanni Ingrao, Aleh Zatsepin, Jiri Leicman, Karl Ferstl, Alexander Kovar
Abstract:
After the shut down of the last operating reactor of the Chernobyl NPP in December 2000, a major project for the transfer of the irradiated…
DETECTING FISSIONABLE MATERIAL FROM A TRAVELLING VEHICLE BY NEUTRON COINCIDENCE MEASUREMENTS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Köble, M. Risse, J. Engelen-Peter, W. Rosenstock
Abstract:
For the search and detection of concealed nuclear material we equipped a conventional car with a neutron measurement system. It consists of…
Detection of Partial Defects in irradiated BWR fuel assemblies. A Preliminary Study.
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Peter Jansson, Anders Backlin
Abstract:
The possibility of detecting partial defects in spent BWR fuel assemblies by means of measure- ments of the emitted neutron and gamma-ray…
DETECTION OF SNM WITH HIGH-PRESSURE XENON DETECTORS*
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Peter E. Vanier, Leon Forman
Abstract:
High-pressure xenon ionization chambers have been constructed that demonstrate a number of desirable features which make them potentially…
DEVELOPMENT AND CALIBRATION OF THE SHIELDED MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR FISSILE CONTENTS MEASUREMENTS ON IRRADIATED NUCLEAR FUEL IN DRY STORAGE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Willliam Mosby, Bruce A. Jenson
Abstract:
In recent years there has been a trend towards storage of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel (INF) in dry conditions rather than in underwater…
Development of a Computer Based Measurement System to Enhance Safeguards Applications at a Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H.Y. Rollen Jr., B.R. McGinnis, Olga Mafra Guidicini, R. L. Mayer, Yoko Hiromoto
Abstract:
A Man-Machine-Interface (MMI) has been developed to simplify and enhance the efficiency for unannounced inspections for a South American…
Development of a Portable Monitor
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.E. Proctor
Abstract:
Constellation Technology recently marketed a portable portal monitor for use by emergency response personnel and others needing a temporary…
Development of an “isotopics” pulser *
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. K. White, S.J. Luke, G. Schmid, Dean Beckedahl
Abstract:
We have developed a pulser that is able to generate a simulated signal from a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector for various plutonium…
Development of Low-Level Environmental Sampling Capabilities at Brazilian and Argentine Laboratories by ABACC
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joel A. Carter, Khris B. Olsen, Doyle Hembree, Olga Mafra Guidicini, Susan Hayes, Michael Whitaker
Abstract:
The Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) with assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy…
Development of Remote Monitoring System at Spent Fuel Storage Silo
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Wan Ki Yoon, Young-Myung Choi, Jung-Soo Kim, Jong Soo Kim
Abstract:
A remote monitoring system at spent fuel storage silo of Wolsong-1 was developed with optical fiber scintillating sensors to measure gamma…