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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James M. Pecos, Jack E. Malcom
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Operators at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Plutonium Facility use thermal neutron coincidence counters (TNCs) to quantify the nuclear…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Yong Jae Kim, Wan Tae Kim, Chul Young Lee, Ho Shin Choi
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The safety of packagings is very important. Maintaining, designing and manufacturing of packagings shall be well controlled. The safety of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):David C. Harding, Yasushi Miura, Yuichiro Ouchi, Kiyoaki YAMAMOTO, Takafumi Kitamura
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Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) is leading Japan’s efforts in fast breeder reactor research and development. As a part of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William O'Connor, Michael Kelly, Michael Farnitano, Susan E. Pepper, Mark Goodman, Bartolo Serafini
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The U.S. Support Program to IAEA Safeguards (USSP) provides more than $20 million annually to strengthen the efficiency and increase the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Peter Jeal, Steve Allaway, Ian Williams, Terry Oles
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AWE is the UK National Laboratory for Nuclear Weapons. It is an integrated site working with plutonium and highly enriched uranium,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. D. Pierce, D. C. Harding, J. G. Bobbe, G. F. Hohnstreiter, T. Kitamura, T. Ito Ito, Y. Ouchi
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Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has developed and tested a package design for air transport of plutonium that can survive a \"worst-case…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. K. Li, D. T. Vo
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Low-Energy Gamma-ray Spectroscopy (LEGS) is a nondestructive assay (NDA) technique developed in the 1980s. In 1999, it was modified to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lav Tandon, Donald Temer, Glenn Bentley, Darryl Jackson
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The Rocky Flats Plutonium (Pu) Metal and Isotopic Exchange programs were conducted in the past to insure the quality and intercomparability…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Tim Shepodd, Paul McConnell, Ron Livingston, Jon Duffey
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Polymer-based hydrogen getters are described and their effectiveness for reducing hydrogen levels in radioactive materials (RAM) packagings…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B.A. Hunt, M. CAVIGLIA, D. Landat, L. Dechamp
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Unattended solution monitoring instrumentation for liquids in tanks has the immediate and obvious attraction of reduced inspection effort.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph F. Pilat, Kory Budlong Sylvester
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The Integrated Safeguards Evaluation Methodology (ISEM) is designed to be a flexible tool capable of meeting as yet undefined requirements…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Beverly S. Bender, Keith W. Fife, Obie W. Gillispie, Patrick T. Martinez, Edward L. Wilson
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The Materials Identification and Surveillance Program at the Los Alamos National Laboratory was created in response to DNFSB (Defense…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Sakurai, S. Usuda, K. Watanabe, M. Magara, Y. Hanzawa, F. Esaka, K. Yasuda, Y. Saito, H. Gunji, S. Kurosawa, Y. Miyamoto, K. Gunji, T. Adachi
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In order to contribute to the strengthened safeguards system based on the Program 93+2 of the IAEA, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):C. L. Brown, G. P. Hornseth
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Most cask designs for storage and transportation of spent nuclear fuel use two lids, an inner shield lid and an outer structural lid. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V. V. Erastov
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“Priorities of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation (MinAtom) in material control and accounting (MC&A): Equipment,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Elizabeth Darrough, Ph.D., Robert H. Jones, P.E.
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In September 2000, the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) submitted an application to the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jorman A. Koski, G. Scott Mills, Carlos Lopez
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This paper estimates the likelihood that a pipeline break or a train fire could occur in the immediate vicinity of a spent nuclear fuel…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yuri Volodin, Boris Krupchatnikov, Alexander Sanin
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This paper provides a brief overview of recent orders, directives, regulations issued by the Russian Federation. Also addressed are…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Richter, S.A. Goldberg
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In July 1999 a new state of the art thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS), the Finnigan MAT Triton, was installed at the New…
Type:JNMM
Volume:29
Issue:4
Author(s):Kaoru Naito, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Takeshi Osabe
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Japan considers the strengthening of international and regional/national safeguards vital for improving the global nonproliferation…