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Type:JNMM
Volume:29
Issue:4
Author(s):Pierre Goldschmidt
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Spent nuclear fuel is indeed in the very center of the discussions about energy, environment, and security. In this context, the IAEA has…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Takeshi Osabe, Kaoru Naito
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Japan considers that strengthening of international and regional/national safeguards is a vital element for improving the global non-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E. F. Kryuchkov, V.B. Glebov, A.E. Sintsov
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Present paper addresses one of the promising ways to create protective barrier in MOX-fuel, namely, short-term irradiation of MOX-fuelled…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Angela Scheurenbrand
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Computers perform an essential role in the tracking and accountability of special nuclear materials across the department of energy. The…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jean-Pierre Denizou, Marie-Edith Robin, Bernard Gaucherand, Johny Ledys, Jean-Marie Legrand, Daher Lhotellier, Marc Costes
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In 1997, at the request of the French Safety Authorities, Framatome ANP, the foremost world supplier of PWR fuel, redesigned its fresh fuel…
Type:JNMM
Volume:29
Issue:3
Author(s):A. Okumura, Koji Shirai, Toshiari Saegusa
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Japan has consistently promoted the closed nuclear fuel cycle to achieve a stable supply of energy for the future and to minimize…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ch. Fasten, F. Nitsche, K.-H. Bell
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One of the most important provisions of the IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of the Radioactive Material No. TS-R-1 (ST-1, Revised)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Larsen, Kent Goodey, Cheryl Rodriguez, Vladimir Bulatov, Yuri Ishkov
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In collaboration with the United States Department of Energy as part of the Nuclear Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard E. Charter
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Creative use of razor ribbon with a built in sensor is described. Preventing an intruder from utilizing the various structures surrounding…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ralph E. Best, Steven J. Maheras, Dr. Thomas I. McSweeney, Steven B. Ross
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Over the last 25 years, methods used to estimate impacts of transporting radioactive materials have improved markedly. Early methods used…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. Pelowitz, D. Pelowitz, David H. Beddingfield, David H. Beddingfield, P. Staples, P. Staples, J.P. Lestone, J.P. Lestone, V. Bytchkov, Z. Starovich, I. Harizanov, J. Luna-Vellejo, C. Lavender
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Vast quantities of spent fuel are available for safeguard measurements, primarily in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) of the former…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ms. Susan T. Grissom, Ms. D. Susanne Furr
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This paper presents a brief description of the upgrade of the Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards System (NMMSS) under the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jere T. Bracey
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The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) submits approximately 2,200 transactions per month to the Nuclear Materials Management and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Kenneth M. Grumski
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Many variables factor into the equation regarding site decommissioning processes that the Department of Energy (DOE) Complexes have…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Susan Pepper, Michael Farnitano, Seymour Morris
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The past 25 years of shared experience between Member States’ Support Programs and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has driven…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven A. Goldberg, Usha I. Narayanan, Richard E. Perrin, John H. Cappis
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Wide area environmental sampling (WAES) and analysis for safeguards is a proposed method in the IAEA Strengthened Safeguards protocol. WAES…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Wellum, A. Verbruggen, A. Alonso, A. Held
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The increased interest in measuring small amounts of nuclear material in environmental samples, techniques called ‘Environmental Sampling…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. Miller, C. Mathews, V. Karpenko, M. Minakov
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The joint cooperative effort between the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the Russian Federation's Ministry of Atomic Energy (…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A.N. Nandakumar
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In the event of an accident involving a vehicle carrying dispersible radioactive material, occurring on a fly-over the residents living…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Don Glidewell, Gene Bosler, William O'Connor
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Over the last half of the decade of the 1990's, the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) International Safeguards Division has…