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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Usuda, Y. Hanzawa, T. Adachi, Richard E. Perrin, David W. Swindle, Jr., B. C. Vickers
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Over the past decade, the analysis of environmental samples for trace quantities of nuclear materials has been recognized as a new method…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W. H. Geist, K. D. Ianakiev, M.R. Sweet, M.C. Browne, N. Ensslin, D.R. Mayo, P.A. Russo, M.R. Kusner
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A new, 4-sided detector for counting neutrons in coincidence is being built as a commercial prototype. It has a short neutron die-away time…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sergei Blagin, Boris Barkanov
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We have developed an RF Tag capable of monitoring several parameters associated with control of sensative materials. In addition to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Edwin S. Lyman, Paul Leventhal
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The Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation (OSRE) is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) program that uses force-on-force exercises…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):George Bunn
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Preventing access by outlaw states, terrorists or thieves to plutonium or highly enriched uranium, the key components for nuclear weapons,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.A. Mullens, J.T. Mihalczo, J.K. Mattingly
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Measurements that accumulate the rate of real coincidence between multiplets of detection events (groupings of arbitrary order, e.g., one…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William D. Stanbro, Michael Brown
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Recent action by the IAEA Board of Governors has opened a route for the oversight of neptunium and, indirectly, americium in nuclear…
Type:JNMM
Volume:28
Issue:4
Author(s):Philip L. Campbell, Richard L Craft, Lillian A. Snyder
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This paper presents a taxonomy, in the form of an abstract model, of the set of remote monitoring architectures, such as those used for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William O’Connor
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a United Nations organization that has the responsibility to monitor nuclear facilities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jung-Soo Kim, Sung Gi Park, Jong-Uk Lee, Jae-Sung Lee, Seung- Sik Park
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Efficiency and reliability are two essential elements in implementing safeguards policy. The IAEA has installed digital surveillance or…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Gary W. Griffith, C. G. (Gus) Mattsson
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Viability Assessment – Issued in late 1998 – “Snapshot in time” – 3 ATS lines – 2 CTS lines – Small in-process wet storage Schedule…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard P. Barna, John M. Buchheit
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For a plant constructing an Interim Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI), it is a major task to assemble all needed spent fuel data…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Farnitano, M. Stein, Colin Carroll, Varis Smiltnieks
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In this paper we examine the challenges facing the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) maintenance and technical support…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Cynthia Heinberg, Mark Killinger, Paul Hendrickson, Amy Whitworth
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When ratified, the United States/International Atomic Energy Agency (U.S./IAEA) Additional Protocol will apply to not only private U.S.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Weber, William Troskoski
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In mid-1999, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) started an initiative for substantially revising its regulatory oversight program…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Pshakin, Hiroshi Hoida, Robert Marshall, G. Titov, B. Gavrilov, A. Mozhayev, A. Savlov, N. Melnichenko
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MPC&A system have been developed at approved Minatom Facilities more than five years. These activities are carried out with methodical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Zendel, V. Bytchkov, J. Arenas-Carrasco, Kenji Murakami, Jorge Vallejo-Luna, R. Olsen, G. Zuccaro-Labellarte, Carlos Olivieri, A. Monticone, J. Janov, B. Wilt
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The implementation of safeguards for the transfers of spent fuel from power reactors to dry storages is a resource intensive activity for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bruno Pellaud
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The 2000 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has come and gone. Unlike the 1995 Conference…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jung Soo Kim, Jong-Uk Lee, Jae-Sung Lee, B-K Kim
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Considering the amount of nuclear material being stored at the dry storage of CANDU site, it goes without saying that emphasis should be…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jill Cooley, Dirk Schriefer, K. Chitumbo, O. Heinonen, Kenji Murakami, A. Nilsson
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A comprehensive safeguards agreement and an additional protocol in force in a State, is the platform for safeguards at the level of the…