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Machine Learning - Based Sorting Nuclear Fuel Waste
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stéphane Puydarrieux, Jean Louis Deparis, Helena Henry, Mickael Picq, Jean Jacques Dupont
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INMM & ESARDAAugust 21-26, 2021 – Joint annual meetingMachine Learning - based sorting nuclear fuel waste Stéphane Puydarrieux - Orano…
Machine Learning For Detecting Nuclear-related Strategic Trade: An Introduction To Supervised Classification And Nlp-assisted Matching For Transaction Identification
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher Nelson
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Detecting the transfer of nuclear-related strategic goods within the international trading system is a long-standing challenge. The small…
Magnetic Smart Tag (MaST) For Unique Identification
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Eric Langlois, Jamin Pillars, Todd Monson, Patrick Finnegan, Barney Doyle, LaRico Treadwell, Heidi A Smartt, Nicholas Gurule, Benjamin Lehman, Charles Pearce
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High value assets, including containers of nuclear material, often require unique identifiers (UIDs) to mitigate the issue of counterfeit…
Maintaining And Improving Nuclear Safety And Security Culture In Adverse Conditions
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Karen Y Kaldenbach, Isabel Steyn, Mosa Rasweswe, Mologadi Kekana, Claire DeRosa
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Maintaining and Improving Nuclear Safety and Security Culturein Adverse ConditionsMosa Rasweswe, Isabel Steyn, Mologadi Kekana: South…
Making Safeguards Education And Training More Accessible: From The Versatile MBA Evaluation Kits To The Virtual Platform For Safeguards Education And Training (VIPSET)
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Riccardo Rossa, Mark Schanfein
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The demand for education and training (E&T) in nuclear safeguards is increasing in the past years in order to prepare the next…
Malicious Action Monitoring Technology By Coupling Deep Leanings Of Image Recognition And Natural Language Processing
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kazuyuki Demachi
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In recent years, deep learning has been very successful in various fields. In particular, since image data contains a lot of information,…
Management of the ERML Under Normal and Extreme Circumstances
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher McGahee, Virginia Koukouliou, Juliana Mintcheva
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Department of Safeguards (SG) has numerous items of equipment rotating between its…
Material Attractiveness Evaluation Of Actinides In Pyroprocessing Facility For Partitioning And Transmutation Cycle
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Akito Oizumi, Hiroshi Sagara
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Research and development of partitioning and transmutation (P&T) cycle with accelerator-drive systems (ADSs) transmuting minor…
Material Transfers Detection With Seismic Observations
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Omar Marcillo, Monica Maceira, Changing Chai, John Krebs, Hunley Riley
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We are exploring the use of data from a seismic network around a research nuclear reactor and isotope production facility at Oak Ridge…
Measurement Error Variances in FRAM - Item-Specific Bias as One Contributor to Dark Uncertainty
Type:JNMM
Volume:49
Issue:3
Author(s):Tom Burr, Thomas E. Sampson, Duc Vo
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The FRAM gamma-ray isotopic analysis code version 5.2 has recently been applied to four Pu data sets and to four U data sets in order to…
Methodology And Software Development For Nuclear Material Characterization Using Weighing Scales
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jean-Luc Dufour, Thierry Lambert, Charles Weber, Laure Domenech
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Weighing scales are the main measurement systems used in nuclear facilities for nuclear material first level controls. In addition, nuclear…
Methods For Efficient Computation Of Neutron Multiplicity Distributions
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jawad Ribhi Moussa, Anil Kant Prinja
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Neutron fingerprinting by neutron multiplicity measurement is a proven technique to establish unique signatures for identification,…
Microreactors And Smr Fuel Cycles - Non-proliferation By Design And Fuel Cycle Options To Be Studied In Conceptual Design
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jean-Baptiste François Alex Darphin
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Through a few examples of microreactors and SMR fuel cycles concepts, the presentation will highlight the need for application of Non-…
Mobility-lifetime Product Characterization Of Long CdZnTe Room-temperature Semiconductor Gamma-ray Detectors
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Deidra R. Hodges, Yves A. Ramirez, Jesus Marquez, German Rodriguez-Ortiz, Giuseppe S. Camarda, Luis A. Ocampo Giraldo, Aleksey E. Bolotnikov
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Cadmium zinc telluride (Cd1-xZnxTe or CZT), a ternary semiconductor material is well suited and has been the material of choice for good…
Modeled Uncertainty Components For The High Efficiency Neutron Counters At The Savannah River Site
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tim Aucott, William Geist, Paul M Mendoza, Michael Moore, Edward Siciliano, Glen A. Warren
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Prior to disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), packages must be non-destructively assayed to verify the contents meet the…
Modernization Of ABACC's Accounting Data Bases
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Leonardo Souza Dunley, Carlos D Llacer
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Modernization of ABACC´s Accounting Data BasesLeonardo Dunley – Carlos LlacerBrazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of…
Monte Carlo Analysis Of An Organic Glass Beta Cell For Radioxenon Detection
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shaun D. Clarke, Nathan Giha, Leah M Clark, Sara A. Pozzi
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Detection of radioactive xenon in atmospheric samples is the only technology in the International Monitoring System that can unambiguously…
Monte Carlo Simulations For Time-of-flight Epithermal Neutron Activation Analysisfor Isotopic Signatures
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nick Grenci
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There is a need for a fast, non-destructive technique to monitor nuclear material throughout the fuel cycle. Analyzing unique signatures…
MSTAR2019: Uranium Enrichment Cascades With Sidestreams
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles Weber, Jordan Lefebvre
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The MSTAR2019 code, an ideal cascade model of uranium enrichment that includes sidestreams, has recently been delivered to the…
Multi-collector Configuration Considerations And Substrate Relative Sensitivity Factor Effects For Age-dating Measurements Of Particles By Large Geometry Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Todd L Williamson, David S Simons, John D Fassett
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Chronometry (a.k.a age-dating, AD) of materials by bulk mass spectrometric methods is a well-established technique based on analysis…