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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Vladimir A. Orlov
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Almost three years ago, in August 1995, in Monterey, CA, an international conference was held, concerning the problems of effectiveness of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V. Terentiev, Sandra Taylor
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Gosatomnadzor of the Russian Federation (GAN) are participating in a joint program to ensure the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Neil R. Zack, David D. Wilkey, Stanley J. Zygmunt
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Five sites in the Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear complex have significant amounts of plutonium in residues. The DOE has begun programs…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. Murakami, V. Bytchkov, Z. Starovich, M. Aparo, N. Islam, Kenji Murakami, Prasom Suksawang, L. Bevaart, R. Olsen, G. Zuccaro-Labellarte, A. Koudriachov, P. Suksawang, A. Monticone
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Large projects involving intensive handling of strategic nuclear material have a substantial impact on the way this material is safeguarded…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Keiichiro Hori, Tsutomu Oka, Hiroshi Kato
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RETF is a test facility for the research and development of the repreocessing technologies on Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) spent feul, and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brenda R. Douglass, David P. Kusel, Sheila A. Doty
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The current mission of Rocky Flats is to “Clean It Up, Make It Safe, Close It Down.” Rocky Flats is also committed to completing its…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. FATTAH, Viatcheslav Pouchkarev
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Final disposal of spent fuel will accumulate extremely large inventories in a disposal site creating a long-term proliferation risk.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert D. Oldham
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The National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (Public Law 104-113) directs federal agencies to rely more on conformity assessment…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Kowalewsky, B. Droste, Tino Neumeyer, S.G. Burnay, M.H. Ball, D.A.V Morton, P.N. Smith, A.T. Tuson
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Preliminary results of a running research project, funded by the European Commission, that will be finished at the beginning of 1998 are…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.A. Ayres, R.E. Reiss
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Yes - it is important! First it was quality assurance, then total quality, and now the term is safety culture. Whatever you call it, a…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. Decobert
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« Safety culture » is a wording that appeared first in 1986, during the evaluation of what happened during the Tchemobyl accident. Safety…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):RA Vaughan
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The SAFKEG family of packages were developed specifically to replace existing fissile material packages designs which are based on 30 year…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bruce W. Moran
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The Programme for Development of Safeguards for the Final Disposal of Spent Fuel in Geologic Repositories (SAGOR) has been completed except…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A. VERDIER, B. Burtin, P. Cordier
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Transnucleaire carries out transports of nuclear materials at each stage of the fuel cycle: • from mine to reactor: yellow cake, U30 8,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David M. Gordon, George T. Baldwin, N. Whiting, Thomas N. Bonner, Jack C. Bartberger, Charles D. Jenkins
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At the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, USA, excess inventory of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) from U.S. defense…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. L. Sprung, D.J. Ammerman, J. A. Koski
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The SeaRAM Program conducted for the US Department of Energy by Sandia National Laboratories has developed estimates of • the frequencies…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):I. Piliero, G. Sert
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The transport of radioactive materials by sea is estimated to 255 shipments on average each year in France. To these movements may be…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):JOERG D. JAHN, H. Goncz
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Till about 4 years ago, transports of Security Category I from or towards the United Kingdom (U.K.) were usually carried out as the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michele A. Bergman, Roger Showalter, David R. Ek, Irene Kouprianova
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As part of the on-going DOE/Russian MPC&A at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) and in order to provide a basis for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):N.N. Shemigon, John Gronager, Michael R. Garcia
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Russian Special Scientific and Production State Enterprise Eleron have teamed to lead a project…