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NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION NUCLEAR MATERIAL INVENTORY ASSESSMENT CAPABILITY
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Amy B. Whitworth, Cindy Murdock, William J. Hunteman
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is developing an analytical assessment tool capable of capturing, maintaining, and…
Needs for Synergies in Verification Technologies Benefices and limits in a new geostrategic environment.
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Richard, Michael Richard
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At the eve of the new century, the landscape of non proliferation and disarmament is contrasted. The past thirty years have seen the…
New Challenges in Nuclear Material Detection
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Dougan, K.E. Sale, S. John Luke, Nancy Suski
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Even before the attacks of September 11, 2001 the International Safeguards community recognized the magnitude of the threat posed by…
New Directions in Safeguards Training Preserving Corporate Memory and Harnessing the Potential of Distributed Learning
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Keeffe, Q.S. Bob Truong, K. Desson
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Safeguards agencies currently face the related challenges of capturing the expertise of experienced staff soon to retire and of training a…
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR A GASEOUS UF6 ENRICHMENT MONITOR
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Donald A. Close, Calvin E. Moss, G. H. Gardner, W. S. Johnson
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In previous reports we described an enrichment monitor for UF6 gas flowing in a pipe. The total amount of uranium is determined by…
Next Generation Security Simulation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark K. Snell, Sabina E. Jordan, Brett A. Peters
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Next Generation Security Simulation (Next Gen) is a prototype PC-based software tool that can be used by individual security analysts to…
NMIS PASSIVE TIME-DEPENDENT COINCIDENCE MEASUREMENTS FOR PLUTONIUM MASS AND MULTIPLICATION
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.T. Mihalczo, J.K. Mattingly, John S. Neal
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With the support of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Nonproliferation Policy (NNSA NA- 241), the Oak Ridge National…
NMIS PLUS GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY FOR ATTRIBUTES OF HEU, PU, AND HE DETECTION
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.A. Mullens, J.T. Mihalczo, J.K. Mattingly, John S. Neal
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A combined Nuclear Materials Identification System (NMIS)-gamma ray spectrometry system can be used passively to obtain the following…
NNSA S&S TECHNOLOGY TASK FORCE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Don Wentz, Michael H. Sparks, Winnie Lehman, Steve Roehrig
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In light of the recent events of September 11, 2001, ensuring the continued, highest level of security to our Nation’s nuclear weapons…
Nondestructive Assay Measurements and Analysis Of the PORTS Low-Enriched Cascade
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.E. Blankenship, D.E. Cordle II, R.L. Mayer, B.R. McGinnis, K.M. Wines
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May 11, 2001 saw cessation of enrichment operations at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) located near Piketon, Ohio. The…
Nuclear DisarmamentThe Role of International Safeguards
Type:JNMM
Volume:30
Issue:4
Author(s):Gotthard Stein, Bernd Richter, Hans Hermann Remagen
Abstract:
In 1995, when its validity was going to expire after twentyfive years, it became necessary to decide upon the future of the Treaty on the…
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING AND LONG-RUN FISSILE MATERIALS SECURITY
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas W. Wood, Barbara Reichmuth
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The long-term security of fissile materials and weapons technology demands diligence in the application of existing protection measures,…
Nuclear material management in a glove box: a life cycle approach
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christophe Xerri, M. Crousilles
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MOX fuel has been fabricated in France for over 30 years and marries well-established fuel fabrication processes with mature plutonium…
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION: THE ROLE OF COMPLEMENTARY REGIMES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Carlson, Russell Leslie
Abstract:
The NPT is commonly perceived as dealing primarily with horizontal proliferation: this is where it has the most detailed provisions, and is…
Nuclear Nonproliferation: The Role of Complementary Regimes
Type:JNMM
Volume:30
Issue:4
Author(s):John Carlson, Russell Leslie
Abstract:
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is commonly perceived as dealing primarily with horizontal proliferation: this is where it has…
Nuclear Security?Increased International and National Efforts
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Anita Nilsson
Abstract:
The events of 9/11 have been referred to by the IAEA director general as a ?wake-up call? to states to work toward effective protection of…
NUSIMEP-3: AN EXTERNAL QUALITY CONTROL CAMPAIGN FOR URANIUM ISOTOPIC RATIOS IN SALINE SOLUTIONS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Wellum, A. Verbruggen, A. Alonso, A. Held, W. De Bolle
Abstract:
The measurement of isotopic ratios of fissile materials such as uranium and plutonium in the small amounts found typically in environmental…
ON RESULTS OF PRELIMINARY ESTIMATIONS OF PLUTONIUM ATTRIBUTES BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETS USING DATA ON VNIIEF-ORNL PLUTO-NIUM MEASUREMENTS PERFORMED WITH THE HELP OF NUCLEAR MATE-RIAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander Vereshchaga, V.V. Gurov
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Artificial neural networks may find wide application at the decision of problems of the control of reduced nuclear arms. The technology of…
ONLINE TUTORIALS ON NONPROLIFERATION ISSUES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Fred Wehling
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With support from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of…
OPPORTUNITIES OF DIGITAL PROCESSING OF SCINTILLATION SIGNALS IN NUCLEAR MATERIAL DETECTION SYSTEMS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. G. Belevitin, V.L. Romodanov, V.V. Baranov, A. Karaulov, V. G. Nikolaev, S.D. Chigir
Abstract:
The physical method of fissile materials (FM) detection, developed in the first year of the ISTC project ? 596, demonstrated that it is…