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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dennis F. Togo, Jennifer S. Crooks
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Overhead costs and their allocations have been a hot topic for debate among project/program managers at the National Laboratories for quite…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Steven J. Maheras, Steven B. Ross, Ralph E. Best
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The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David A. Shisler
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Planned upgrades to the Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards System (NMMSS) database structure will require significant changes in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James J. Smith, Viktoria V. Vanas
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In the Department of Safeguards, a project is under development to build a modern information system, a data warehouse, to cover data…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dorel Popescu, Valerij Bytchkov, Gunter Naegele, Vitalij Tolstonogov
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This paper presents the implementation of the safeguards approach developed by the IAEA, Department of Safeguards, for the Chernobyl…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yusuke Kuno, Y. Ichige, P. Doherty
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Establishment of analytical techniques as verification measures for Np and Am has been required to IAEA because those are designated as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas R. Rutherford, John H. McNeilly
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The Fissile Material Control Program (FMCP) of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program has a requirement to provide confidence that…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Sanin, C. Key, L. Livingston, D. Hall
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The Gosatomnadzor (GAN) Inspector training project (GAN Project 5) has provided qualitytraining opportunities to GAN inspectors for the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.K. Li, M. Watanabe, S. Sato, S. Jitsukata, T. Kuno
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We have studied the improvement in simultaneous measurements of concentrations and isotopic compositions for plutonium in input spent-fuel…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.L. Whaley, W.E. Kilmartin, K.R. Byers
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The traditional project management approach has three phases; planning, execution and implementation. Using a project management approach,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tracy R. Wenz, Howard O. Menlove, Hajime Maruyama, Saburo Takahashi
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A high-resolution gamma ray spectroscopy (HRGS) system has been installed at the Advanced Material Accountancy Glovebox Assay (AMAGB)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. K. White
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As the U.S. and the Russian Federation get closer to deploying systems for monitoring nuclear material within arms control and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.K. Jewell, R. Aryaeinejad, J.D. Cole, Edward L. Reber
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New experiments to study the basic fission process have been performed using an array of high purity germanium detectors. The radiation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.L. FULLER, J.L. FULLER, J. WOLFORD
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An information barrier (IB) consists of procedures and technology that prevent the release of sensitive information during a joint…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Duncan W. MacArthur, James K. Wolford, Jr
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Acceptance of nuclear materials into a monitoring regime is complicated if the materials are in classified shapes or have classified…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dennis L. Mangan, Echkard Haas
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Within the framework of the Trilateral Initiative, technical challenges have arisen due to the potential of the International Atomic Energy…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sergei Blagin, Thomas Lockner, Vitaly Lupsha
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The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) has constructed a storage facility for sensitive…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas L. Williams, Lawrence M. Desonier, Berry Crain, Jr., Thomas R. Lockner
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An advanced storage monitoring facility has been constructed at the Savannah River Site capable of storing special nuclear materials (SNM)…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mike Mason, Glenn Guerra, Malati Kesaree
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This paper describes the innovative TN-FSV Cask design, and explains the simple modifications made to its Configuration 1 in order to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kevin Linker, John Parmeter, Clarles Brusseau, Frank Bouchier, Lester Arakaki, Chuck Rhykerd, Jerry Davis, Dale Murray
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High security areas, such as nuclear materials handling areas, screen personnel to check individual authorization and to prevent nuclear…