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COST-BENEFIT ESTIMATOR AS AN AID FOR DECISION MAKING IN RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT, DECOMMISSIONING AND REHABILITATION OF LAND
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):I.L. Petr
Abstract:
The paper introduces an auxiliary tool (Cost-Benefit Estimator (CBE)) for comparing options of land rehabilitation, radioactive waste…
Current and Future Directions for the Implementation of the U.S./Russian Intergovernmental Agreement: Transparency and the Natural Feed Component
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Edward Mastal, Joseph Glaser, Ed Rutkowski, Yuri Bussurin
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The year 1999 presented many opportunities for the successful implementation of transparency measures associated with the United States (US…
Data Acquisition and Review Strategy for the Medium Term
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. Schwalbach, M. Swinhoe, W. Kloeckner, Peter Chare, Thierry Girard
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With the end of the 1990s we were faced with the challenge of ageing portable NDA systems based on Windows 3.1 and DOS. We took this…
DESIGNING SAFEGUARDS PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE AND VALIDATE DETECTION PROBABILITIES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Pamela Dawson, Jerome Morzinski
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For years, risk assessment professionals have failed to adequately represent some aspects of safeguards elements, e.g., certain components…
DESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS CRMS: DEVELOPING A HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF TRACEABILITY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Marshall, Gennady Titov
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The Russian system for certified reference materials (chemical standards or CRMs) for the destructive analysis (DA) of nuclear materials is…
Detecting Undeclared Reprocessing Activities through Sampling Analysis
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hui Zhang
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Under an FMCT, onei mportant verification focus will be on spent fuel reprocessing plantTs.h is paper examines methodsf or determining from…
DETECTION OF UNDECLARED ACTIVITIES IN RESEARCH REACTORS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):U. Filges, J. Knorr, A. Ellinger, W. Hansen,
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In accordance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Treaty Establishing the European Atomic Energy Community safeguards…
DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KI-MACS COMPUTERIZED MATERIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM IN RUSSIA
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.N. Rumyantsev, V.M. Shmelev, S. Peter Gary, Mac Forehand, Alexey V. Yevstropov, Vladimir Y. Ostroumov, V. Sukhoruchkin
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Six US Department of Energy Laboratories are carrying out a program of cooperation with the Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute to…
Development and installation of Solution Measurement and Monitoring System (SMMS) at TRP
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Takehiko Satoh, Tsuyoshi HAYAKAWA, Kentaro KOBAYASHI
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IAEA proposed TRP safeguard improvement plans in 1995 for closer and more efficient safeguards of TRP. Development of Solution Measurement…
Development of a Cavity Source for Enhanced Ionization Efficiency of U and Pu Using Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K.B. Ingeneri, J.M. Whitaker, C.M. Barshick
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The detection, characterization, and quantification of trace quantities of uranium and plutonium play a vital role in nuclear safeguards.…
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACTIVE EPITHERMAL NEUTRON MULTIPLICITY COUNTER (ENMC)
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.E. Stewart, W. H. Geist, H.O. Menlove, N. Ensslin, C. Shonrock
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The Epithermal Neutron Multiplicity Counter (ENMC) has been modified for active assay. Endplugs that can be easily inserted into the ENMC…
Development of Design Basis Threat and its Future Perspective for Establishment of Domestic System of Physical Protection
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Seung Sik Park, Jin-Soo An, Jong-Uk Lee, Hyun-Chul Lee, Eun-Ho Kwack
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According to the recent strengthening of international nonproliferation regime, the existing Physical Protection Convention(INFCIRC/274/Rev…
Development of NDA Methods for Neptunium Metal
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Donald A. Close, R.J. Estep, Calvin E. Moss, C. Goulding, Charles L. Hollas, Brian D. Rooney, W. L. Myers
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Many techniques have been developed and applied in the US and other countries for the control of the special nuclear materials (SNM)…
DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF A VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM IN KORA
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jin-Soo An, Jong-Uk Lee, Hyun-Chul Lee, Eun-Ho Kwack
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The physical protection system (PPS) design process includes the vulnerability assessment phase to validate the performance of the designed…
DIGITAL MULTI-CAMERA OPTICAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM DMOS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. Schoop, G. Neumann, K. Gaertner, B. Richter
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Optical surveillance is one of the most important safeguards measures applied by Euratom and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA…
Disposition Pathways: Immobilization
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bill Danker
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Approximately one-third of the surplus U.S. plutonium is in the form of impure metal, oxides and reactor fuel, which are unsuitable for MOX…
Dry Interim Storage Facility for Spent Fuel Assemblies from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Type:JNMM
Volume:29
Issue:1
Author(s):Phillippe Revel
Abstract:
Final shutdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine necessitates safe on-site interim storage of irradiated fuel. Plant…
Dynamic IR Imaging of Nuclear Weapon Platforms for Treaty Verification
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Marc L. Simpson, Ralph B. Dinwiddie
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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Arms Control Technology Division sponsored research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL…
ELECTRONICS FOR A NEUTRON FIBER DETECTOR
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.C. Browne, Martin R. Sweet, K. Ianakiev
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This paper describes the development of custom-designed electronics to support a new short-die-away time neutron detector. The detector is…
ENDA - ESARDA DATABASE FOR NDA INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Matti Tarvainen, S. Guardini, Marko Hämäläinen
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As a joint effort by members of the ESARDA NDA Working Group (NDA-WG), a database has been developed to include detailed information of non…