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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert J. Estep, Sheila G. Melton, Earl Peterson
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The Crated Waste Assay Monitor (CWAM) system was designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory to address safeguards and waste measurements…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Mount, David Dearborn, Jeffrey Glosup, Curtis Cochran, Eileen Endres
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In partial response to a Department of Energy (DOE) request to evaluate the state of measurements of special nuclear material, Lawrence…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Brothier, J. Dudouit
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The French legislation and CEA texts concerning nuclear materials safety are shortly presented. CEA organisation for controls of nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jim Sumner, Bob Vines, Danny Powell, Donald A. Close, Calvin E. Moss, J.A. McEvers, Taner Uckan, Josè March-Leuba, Edward Mastal, W. S. Johnson, Joseph Glaser, Alexandr Saprygin
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Agreements between the United States (U.S.) and the Russian Federation (R.F.) require the down-blending of highly enriched uranium (HEU)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Richter, W Rosenstock, J. Tanaka, P. Hilger
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In pursuing its Safeguards obligations the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) measures fission neutrons in high gamma-radiation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Chris A. Hodge, Rich Thomason
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The Radionuclide Assay System – Photon (RAS-P) is a near-field, transmission-corrected assay system developed for measurement of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rena Whiteson, Duncan MacArthur
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Acceptance of nuclear materials into a monitoring regime is complicated if the materials have classified characteristics. An “information…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Oleg Bukharin
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The United States is working cooperatively with Russia to improve nuclear material protection, control and accounting (MPC&A) at tens…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rodney Martin, Ronald B. Melton, Ned Wogman
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The IAEA is moving towards implementing an integrated safeguards system that incorporates strengthened safeguards components based on…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):L.O. Ticknor, M. J. Schanfein
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For over two decades, a continuous inventory inspection regime has been used by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Mitterrand, A. Vian
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For several years commercial and environmental concerns have been leading our analytical strategy toward improvement of our job, with…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Peter Jeal, Melanie Freeman, Fred Plumb
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This paper demonstrates how an Excel spreadsheet has been used as a production modeling tool to forecast fissile material requirements to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael S. Warren, Patricia A. Comella, Russell Hibbs
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The Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material is a key line of defense, particularly in preventing nuclear material from…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.S. Kraus, M. Ondrik, S. Kadner, W. Doyle, A. Nadezhdinskii, A. Berezin
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The Diode Laser Spectroscopy Lab (DLS) of the Natural Sciences Center (NSC) of the General Physics Institute (GPI) in Moscow was…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):N.R. Zack, R. Johns
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In fiscal year (FY) 1999, Minatom and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Andrew J. Bieniawski, Yuri Bussurin
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Under the 1993 Highly-Enriched Uranium (HEU) Purchase Agreement, the United States is purchasing, over 20 years, low enriched uranium (LEU…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Carolyn Pura
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The collection of Transparency Initiatives currently under consideration provides a unique opportunity for cooperation in the technology…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tom Dunham, Thomas Lockner, Boris Barkanov, Konstantin N. Zimovets, Greg Mann
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In support of potential future strategic treaties, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (OUSD(A&…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Dougherty, Andrew J. Bieniawski, Edward Mastal, P.T. Cahalane, Joseph Glaser, J. Hernandez
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DOE sponsored programs such as Material Protection Control and Accountability (MPC&A) and implementation of the Highly-Enriched Uranium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):N. Khlebnikov, M. Aparo, J. Whichello
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The IAEA Remote Monitoring Project (RMP) was established in October 1996 to prepare safeguards policy, approaches and procedures, to…