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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nathan Shoman, Tom L. Burr
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The continued growth of the nuclear industry places increasing demands on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) prompting efforts…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher Fichtlscherer, Friederike Friess, Malte Goettsche, Moritz Kütt
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Monte Carlo particle transport tools can simulate gamma spectrometry results using a pulse-height tally. Such a tally calculates how much…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Calvez Marianne, Vial Eugénie, Bon Nguyen Romuald, M'Rad Dali Walid
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The ESARDA Implementation of Safeguards (IS) Working Group (WG) has conducted early 2021 an analysis of the different safeguards inspection…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Amy M. Gaffney, Michael J Kristo
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is one of four U.S. national laboratories providing nuclear forensic analysis of materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert D. McElroy, Jr., Robert Wilson, Jeffrey A Chapman, Stephen Croft
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The fissile gram equivalent (FGE) mass assigned to an item via nondestructive assay and its corresponding total measurement uncertainty (…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sandeep Bhamidipati, Arpita Datta, Alpana Goel
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Insider threat in nuclear facilities is a serious concern and needs to be exterminated at the grass root level for the achievement of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stuti R Surani, Patrick E. Albert, Pete Lauer, Douglas E Wolfe, Marek Flaska
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Typically, current state-of-the-art inorganic scintillation detectors have relatively high light yields. However, a relatively large…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jan Geisel-Brinck, Gerald Kirchner
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In the context of nuclear disarmament verification, unambiguous detection of highly enriched uranium poses a particular challenge due to…
Type:JNMM
Volume:49
Issue:3
Author(s):Mark Croce, Daniel Becker, Katrina E. Koehler, Joel Ullomca
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Advances in both instrumentation and data analysis software are now enabling the first ultra-high-resolution microcalorimeter gamma…
Type:JNMM
Volume:49
Issue:3
Author(s):Duc Vo
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Medium-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer (MRGS) detectors such as the LaBr3 and CZT detectors present a more practical and less expensive…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William Horsthemke, Nathaniel Evans, Dan Harkness
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We depend upon continuous operation of trustworthy, resilient computer systems, but ensuring their integrity and availability poses…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tanmay Jain, Archana Yadav
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Presentation Title: Improving Human Reliability Assessment using Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN): a case study on maintenance in PHT and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yves A. Ramirez, Deidra R. Hodges
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Abstract. - We have characterized a prototype of a portable high-resolution room temperature gamma-ray spectrometer that works with 4x4…
Type:JNMM
Volume:49
Issue:1
Author(s):Nathaniel C. Hoyt, Cari A. Launiere, Elizabeth A. Stricker
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Currently, material accountancy for in-process nuclear materials requires a significant amount of sampling and destructive analysis in a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher Spirito, Christine Noonan, Charles Nickerson, Gina Lawson
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While improvements have been made to secure nuclear materials and facilities internationally, the recently published Nuclear Security Index…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brian Higgins, Fred Mauss, Joe Lapinskas, William Miller, Ron Monteforte
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The threat of dirty bombs, or radiological dispersal devices (RDDs), is real, and while the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Arturs Rozite
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For the uranium enrichment verification and plutonium isotopic composition determination, portable HPGe spectrometers accomplished by the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert D. McElroy, Sean Edward O'Brien, Angela L. Lousteau
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For more than 30 years, the quantitative assay of the 235U content of light water reactor fresh fuel assemblies relied on measuring…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph Rivers, Azaree Lintereur, Matthew Durbin
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This workshop was intended to address the age-old question of whether it is possible to quantify the likelihood of an attack on a nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shari L Jameson, Nichole M White, Brian J Homer
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The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence (NSDD) plays a critical role in the U.S…