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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Abedin-Zadeh, E. Kuhn, H. Ai, Yusuke Kuno, G. Duhamel, T. Hatakenaka
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An On-site Laboratory (OSL) for Safeguards is under construction at the Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (RRP) in Japan…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Alfons Lührmann, Wolf-Dieter Perschmann, Ronald Schürrle, Hermann Unger, Wolfgang Sowa, Roland Hüggenberg, Peter Baude
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On-site transfer and storage of spent fuel in CASTOR? casks will become more and more important in Germany because storage facilities will…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Claude Penoty
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Électricité de France (EDF) wishes to be able to transfer fuel assemblies from the pool of a unit to the pool of another unit of the same…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Knorr
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There is an increasing number of research reactors which are temporarily or permanently out of use, but not yet decommissioned. Facilities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K.R. Mikkelsen, H.A. Smith, W. J Toth, M. T. Fink
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Ensuring all aspects of the continued operation of installed Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A) systems is a critical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. G. Belevitin, V.L. Romodanov, V.G. Nikolaev, V.V. Afanasiev, V.V. Baranov, A.P. Kryukov
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This work is the first stage of the ISTC project ¹ 596 on customs control of fissile materials (FM) in airports. On the first project year…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Matti Tarvainen, Tuomas Valmari, Sampo Ylätalo, Riitta Zilliacus
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Under the Finnish support to the IAEA Iraq Action Team, environmental sampling using an aerosol sampling method has been systematically…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Alspaugh
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This paper gives an overview of DYMCAS, the material control and accountability information system for the Y-12 National Security Complex.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. Kurakami, K. YAMAMOTO, Y. Ouchi, T. Ito Ito, J. D. Pierce, D. C. Harding, G. F. Hohnstreiter, T. Kitamura, I. Kurita
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The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC), the former or ganization of the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ed T. Sadowski, Jerry M. O'Leary
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Material Management System (CNMMS) is used to account for nuclear material at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B.Tatum Fowler, R. Dowe Dabbs
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This paper presents a brief description of the nuclear materials accounting system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jim Andre, Glenda Ackerman
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The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) Safeguards Nuclear Accounting Program (SNAP) was designed over 15 years ago as a stand-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H.P. Dyck
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Spent fuel management is a necessary and costly activity for all operators of nuclear power plants regardless of the strategy selected for…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Frank-Michael Börst, Frank Nitsche
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The BfS as competent authority for package design approval in Germany is responsible for the specifications given in a package design…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H.Y. Rollen Jr., R.L. Mayer II, E. Gryntakis, G.T. Nutter, K.M. Wines
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Effective international safeguards approaches for gas centrifuge plants require the capability to verify the absence of any undeclared feed…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W. J. Toth, P.V. Bondarev
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Integration of MPC&A systems at Russian facilities has moved beyond the project end-dates, and the systems have been operational for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Parmeter, David Hannum
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Increased concern over the use of explosives by terrorists worldwide continues to drive the development of commercially available equipment…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.R. Twomey, E. Broerman
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In the area of Safeguards, the high resolution gamma spectra obtained with high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors is absolutely necessary…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.D. Bingham, R.M. Keyser, T.R. Twomey
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The use of digital signal processing (DSP) has become the standard for high-performance laboratory instruments for measurements in the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Chihiro Itoh, Toshiari Saegusa
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In Japan, for the time being, up to commercial commissioning of fast breeder reactors, MOX fuel is planned to be utilized in light water…