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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Victoria Longmire, Steven Croney, Pamela Dawson, Carl Ostenak
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Traditional materials accounting is focused exclusively on the material balance area (MBA), and involves periodically closing a material…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Todd H. Allen, Steven A. Porter
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After years of use in transporting Contact-Handled TransUranic (CH-TRU) waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), TRUPACT-II…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tom Burr, Richard Strittmatter, Brian Scott, Cindy Murdock
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The Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory is considering replacing a “scheduled periodic physical inventory” approach with a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P.L. Kerr, Z.M. Koenig, G.N. Ignatjev, V.P. Udalov
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Current efforts are being made in the U.S. and Russia to determine appropriate schemes for the transparent monitoring of the storage of U.S…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Naohito WATABE, Susumu Mitake, Jun NOBE, Yoshiyuki TSUJI
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The authors have kept on evaluating the adaptability of INTERTRAN2 to various transports such as planned LLW transport. This report…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A. B. Rothman, J. R. Liaw, J. J. Oras
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Ambient room-temperature equilibrium constants have been determined for the physical and chemical reactions within the PuO2-H2O-H2-O2…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Khris B. Olsen, Joel Carter, Michael Whitaker, Olga Mafra Guidicini, Doyle M. Hembree, Jr.
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The Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC), with assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):CF Tso, M Farina
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Among other requirements for a Type B packages, the IAEA regulations require demonstration of its performance in 9m drops onto a flat…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ernst Prucker
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In the 1990ties, after Harrisburg and Tchernobyl severe accidents, the Nuclear safety boards and industry develloped concepts of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. YAKSH, A. Langston
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Design of impact limiters for transportation casks is well adapted for the use of the finite element code LS-DYNA. Impact limiters are…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. S. Hughes, K. B. Shaw, G. Schwarz, Y. François, B. M. Schmitz, F. Lange, H-J. Fett, G. Sert, F. Rancillac, C. Ringot
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The International Nuclear Event Scale 1 (INES) has been used successfully for more than a decade to provide, to the media and the public,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Keeffe, Q.S. Bob Truong
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Established by the government of Canada in 1976, the Canadian Safeguards Support Program (CSSP) was one of the first IAEA safeguards…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. Greg Field, John Alvis, Brad Day, John Jackson, Lee L. Carter
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Compliance with 10 CFR §71 dose rate limits for shipments of Remote-Handled Transuranic (RHTRU) waste in the RH-TRU 72-B package is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):L. Pillette-Cousin
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Regulatory and technical conditions for nuclear material control and accountancy (NMC&A) in the context of French national safeguards…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.L Portugal, P. Funk
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French ministerial directive of June 1988 gives the technical conditions for control and accountancy of nuclear materials contained in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jaime Vidaurre-Henry
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Training has been going on since the beginning of time. What can there be new in the world of training? In the past training focussed on…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mika YOSHIDA, Tetsuo OHTANI
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In the Plutonium Fuel Center (PFC) of JNC, Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry (IDMS) has been used to determine Pu and U contents of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Ohtaka, T. Kobayashi, F. Matsuura
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Tokai Power Station was an improved version of the Colder Hall type power plant that was originally developed and put into operation in the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hong Ryul Cha, Won Woo Na, Sung Gi Park, Jin-Soo An
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For the national inspection of CANDU NPP, a Spent CANDU Fuel Verifier (SCAV) was developed and used for the verification of spent CANDU…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Ewing, Kirsten F. Laurin-Kovitz, I. Sakunov
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AIMAS is a material control & accounting software developed by Argonne National Laboratory and Ukrainian MC&A experts for use as a…