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TRANSPORTATION OF SPENT FUEL FROM REACTORS TO DOE STORAGE/ DISPOSAL FACILITIES -- SAFETY FEATURES OF CASK DESIGN
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E.R Johnson, P.M. Saverot, B.R. Teer
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The design requirements for spent fuel transport casks, necessary to meet the regulatory requirements of NRC, are identified and discussed…
TRANSPORTATION ROUTING ANALYSIS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM-TRAG IS, PROGRESS ON IMPROVING A ROUTING TOOL
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Paul E. Johnson, P. B. Lester
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The Transportation Routing Analysis Geographic Information System (TRAGIS) model provides a useful tool to calculate and analyze…
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MODELING AND SIMULATION IN SUPPORT OF LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Yoshimura, E.A. Kjeldgaard, M.A. Turnquist, G.F. List
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Effective management of DOE's transportation operations requires better data than are currently available, a more integrated management…
Treatment of DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel as Preparation for Geologic Disposition
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David A. Dahl, C. Lee Bendixsen
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In October 1995, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) was designated as the Department of Energy (DOE) lead…
TRUCK TRANSPORT OF RAM: RISK EFFECTS OF AVOIDING METROPOLITAN AREAS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):G. S. Mills, K. S. Neuhauser
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In the transport of radioactive material (RAM), e.g., spent nuclear fuel (SNF), stakeholders are generally most concerned about risks in…
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NUCLEAR MATERIALS CONTROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY POLICY UPDATE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David W. Crawford
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This paper discusses pohcy imtiatives underway wrthin the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) nuclear materials control and accountability (MC…
U.S. DOE Laboratory Views on U.S. - Russian Partnership for Nuclear Security
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. Ruth Kempf
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This paper summarizes an analysis of the U.S.-Russian Nuclear Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program, developed on…
U.S. TRANSPARENCY MONITORING OF HEU OXIDE CONVERSION AND BLENDING TO LEU HEXAFLUORIDE AT THREE RUSSIAN BLENDING PLANTS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Douglas A. Leich, D. J. Decman, Janie Benton, Joseph Glaser, Alexander Demenko, David Thomas
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The down-blending of Russian highly enriched uranium (HEU) takes place at three Russian gaseous centrifuge enrichment plants. The…
U.S. TRANSPARENCY MONITORING OF HEU WEAPONS COMPONENT CONVERSION AT TWO RUSSIAN OXIDATION PLANTS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Dougherty, Janie Benton, Wesley Bicha, Joseph Glaser, Alexander Demenko
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Under the Highly-Enriched Uranium (HEU) Purchase Agreement , the United States is purchasing 500 metric tons of HEU from dismantled Russian…
U.S.-RUSSIA MPC&A UPGRADES AT THE BELOYARSK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. R. Hatcher, Mark Soo Hoo, Michael Haase, Roger Showalter, K.R. Mikkelsen, Mac Forehand, Cynthia Heinberg, Oleg Saraev, Carrie Smarto
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During the January 1996 meeting of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) was identified as one of the…
U.S./Russian Cooperative Efforts to Enhance Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting at the All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF), Chelyabinsk-70
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jack Blasy, A. Eras, Gennady Tsygankov, Kenneth E. Apt, Yuri Churikov, William Abramson, L. Neymotin, Dimitry Bukin, Edward Magda, Fred Shultz, Tom Slankas
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The All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF) is one of the major sites in the nuclear weapons complex in…
Upgrades for Truck Transportation of SNM in the Russian Federation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Byron Gardner, Ernst Kornilovich
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The goal of this project is the rapid reduction of risk to truck transportation of SNM in Russia. Enhanced protection is being accomplished…
Upgrades to the Russian Navy’s Consolidated Storage Locations and Fuel Transfer Ships
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael O’Brien, Byron Gardner, Mac Forehand, David Caskey, H. Lambert, Andre Kryakov
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The United States and the Russian Federation entered into a cooperative agreement in 1994 that resulted in a nuclear weapons non-…
Uranium and Plutonium Isotopic Analysis Using MGA++
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Wayne Ruhter, William M. Buckley, DeLynn Clark, Tzu-Fang Wang, S. Kreek, William Romine, Kenneth Raschke, Allen Friensehner
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The Lawrence Liver-more National Laboratory develops sophisticated gamma-ray analysis codes for the isotopic analysis of nuclear materials…
URANIUM CROSS-CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS USING URANIUM CROSS-CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS USING
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lou Carrillo, N. Ensslin, V.G. Nikolaev, I. Prochine
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This paper reports on the cross-calibration of an Active Well Coincidence Counter for use in the Materials Protection, Control, and…
US/RUSSIA COOPERATION IN MATERIAL PROTECTION, CONTROL, AND ACCOUNTING AT THE SSC-RIAR, DIMITROVGRAD
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yuri I. Kharlanov, Lawernce Satkowiak, T. K. Li, Steven Schlegel, Larry Wangen, Alexander Gorbach, Michael Benson, Michael Bonner, Wayne Pickard
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The State Scientific Center-Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (SSC-RIAR) in Dimitrovgrad was selected as one of the Russian enterprises…
US/RUSSIAN AFFIRMATION PROCESS OF THE RUSSIAN FISSILE MATERIAL CONTAINER DESIGN
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. E. Glass, S.M. Nunley, G. Chalfant
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The United States government agreed to provide the Russian Federation with containers to support the dismantlement ofRussian nuclear…
US/RUSSIAN COOPERATIVE EFFORTS IN NUCLEAR MATERIAL PROTECTION, CONTROL, AND ACCOUNTING AT THE SIBERIAN CHEMICAL COMBINE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Leslie G. Fishbone, William M. Buckley, Victor L. Petrushev, J. H. Jarrett, Igor Goloskokov, Michael Bonner, R.E. Morgado, William J. Toth, R. Bruce Berry, A. Yarygin, R. Logsdon, R. Copp
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The Siberian Chemical Combine (SKhK) is the largest multi-function nuclear production center facility in the Russian nuclear complex. Until…
US/RUSSIAN PROGRAM IN MATERIALS PROTECTION, CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING AT THE RRC KURCHATOV INSTITUTE: 1997-1998
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Siskind, T. E. Sampson, J.E. Stewart, P. Singh, Brad Steele, John A. Blasy, Wayne Ruhter, V.M. Shmelev, L.E. Predika, Sergei Antipov, Rob York, Igor Bryagin, V. Sukhoruchkin, Eugeni Melkov, William Abramson
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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…
Use of Information Barriers to Protect Classified Information
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nancy Jo Nicholas, D.W MacArthur, Rena Whiteson, M. William Johnson
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This paper discusses the detailed requirements for an information barrier (IB) for use with verification systems that employ intrusive…