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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Edwin S. Lyman
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Full consideration of safeguards and physical protection issues early in the design of nuclear facilities is a fundamental principle of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles Roche, Pavel P. Mizin, Victor Y. Chukov, Oleg I. Shanin, E.T. Kulikov, L.I. Mikhailichenko, Shmelev Sergey, Vladimir Rogatchev
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The results of six-years cooperation of Luch and U.S. National Laboratories on MC&A upgrades are presented. The MC&A Plan developed…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, Sara Pozzi, J.K. Mattingly, E. Padovani
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In the past, passive Nuclear Materials Identification System (NMIS) measurements on plutonium metal shells at VNIIEF have shown the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Newell, David S. Bracken, J.E. Schauer
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A calorimeter electrical calibration system (CECS) has been developed for use in existing radiometric calorimeters without the need for any…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.A. Brown, J.P. Knezovich, A.A. Marchetti
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The need for ultra-sensitive actinide measurements continues to expand in the fields of environmental stewardship, nuclear isotope…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Morag K. Smith, Diana Langner
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The Trilateral Initiative Technical Workshop at the Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, held December 2001, had several goals. One goal…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas Burr, L.O. Ticknor, Gilbert S. Roybal, Victoria L. Longmire, Geralyn Hemphill
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Propagation of variance (POV) modeling of measurement uncertainty has been performed at the process level for several years at the Los…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kevin L. Linker, Curtis D. Mowry, Robert C. Sanchez
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Sandia National Laboratories has developed two microfabricated sensors for chemical detection and developed portable sampling and macro…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Chris Behan, Adrian Pidlusky, Teri Westerfeldt
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For the past year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) cooperative program for nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Andrew Persinko, David Brown
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With the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia began dismantling nuclear weapons, which resulted in surplus weapons-usable…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.W. Brewer
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A molten plutonium reactor named the Los Alamos Molten Plutonium Reactor Experiment (LAMPRE) operated at Los Alamos in the early 60’s. Much…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Gaurav Rajen
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This paper suggests an opportunity for increasing nuclear transparency in South Asia that involves providing assistance to Indian and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.V. Savin, Boris Lebedev, Sergey Razinkov
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In the paper there are presented results of Monte-Carlo simulations to optimize neutron multiplicity counter for standard plutonium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, Sara Pozzi
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Nuclear safeguards active measurements that rely on the time correlation between fast neutrons and gamma rays from the same fission are a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven P. Kadner, Kathleen McCann, K.L. De Castro, Charles T. Bolton, M. White, Trevor Pratt
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The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon demonstrated the ability of terrorists to implement sophisticated, well…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kenneth B. Sheely, Brian Waud, Jack Caravelli
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Vast quantities of nuclear weapons and materials are poorly secured and vulnerable to terrorists. The Office of International Material…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Gerald Thomas
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Acceleration of the Protective Force Project in the form of rapid equipment upgrades has had an immediate impact on reduction of risk to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yuri Volodin, Boris Krupchatnikov, Alexander Sanin
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Aspiration to creation of the safe world, strengthening nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, questions of security and illegal trafficking…
Type:JNMM
Volume:31
Issue:1
Author(s):Rudolf Avenhaus, M. J. Canty
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The problem of determining the optimal falsification and inspection strategies for a two-level verification system in which false alarms…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John M. Andrews, Amy B. Whitworth, Thomas L. Williams, Cindy Murdock, Debra K. McNeilly
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) community formalized the process of how…