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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. L. DONOHUE, E. Kuhn, Jill Cooley
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Approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Board of Governors, use of environmental sampling as a new safeguards…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sharon M. DeLand
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The International Remote Monitoring Project (IRMP) sponsored by the US DOE allows DOE and its international partners to gain experience…
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Author(s):J.A. Williams, R.L. Clark, Zane W. Bell, R.N. Nodine
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Although uranium emichment instruments have been in existence for many years, some have been very expensive, others bulky, inaccurate or…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David S. Bracken, R. Biddle
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EG&G Mound Applied Technologies calorimetry personnel have developed a small, thermos-bottle solid-state calorimeter, which is now…
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Author(s):Jerry R. Wetzel, R. Cech, R. Biddle
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A mound electrical calibration heater (MECH) has been used in several EG&G Mound developed calorimeters as a calibration tool. They are…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Gonçalves
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Reliability is an essential factor in safeguards measurements. The reliability is achieved if precision and accuracy of the measurements…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, Tanner Uckan, J.A. Mullens, D.E. McMillan, M.J. Paulus, K.N. Castleberry
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A detector and front-end electronics unit with secure data transmission has been designed and implemented for a fissile mass flow…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. L. Haggard, J. E. Tanner
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Nondestructive assay of nine highly radioactive irradiated fuel assemblies was completed at the Radiochemical Engineering Cells (REC)…
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Author(s):Phil Robinson, Frederick O. Leutters
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Approximately five years ago, the United States started the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program with the countries of the Former Soviet…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Teresa Olascoaga, Fred Morris, Boris N. Krouptchatnikov, Robert J. Sorenson, Judith A. Littleton
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal Nuclear and Radiation Safety Authority of Russia (Gosatomnadzor or GAN) have entered…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Vladimir Terentyev, Vladimir Terentyev, Sandra Taylor
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This report is a joint presentation by Atominform (MINATOM, Russia) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (the university of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G.P. Kodman, K.R. Byers, Thomas C. Davis
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Over the past ten years there have been changes in the physical inventory policy for special nuclear materials within the U.S. Department…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Smoot, P. Gary Eller, Vladimir Sukhoruchkin, J.E. Stewart, Rena Whiteson, P. Singh, Bradley Weil, Wayne Ruhter, V.M. Shmelev, A.N. Roumiantsev, James R. Griggs, Susan Voss, Yuri A. Ostroumov, Alexey V. Yevstropov
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Since August 1994 Kurchatov Institute in cooperation with several US Department of Energy Laboratories has been developing a site-wide…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark D. Ladd, Michael S. Pacheco
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This paper describes the work at Sandia National Laboratory to develop sensors that remoteley detect uniqe lifeform characteristic, such as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Young Gil Lee, Howard O. Menlove, Phillip M. Rinard, Hong-Ryul Cha, Jong-Sook Hong
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As a strategy for DUPIC(Qirect !:l'se of Spent ~WR Fuel in
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Author(s):Shinji Hara, Syouzou Yasu
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The Uranium and Plutonium isotopic compositions and concentrations of safeguards inspection samples are measured mainly by the mass…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. K. Halbig, S. Klosterbuer, H.O. Menlove, T.R. Wenz, T. Iwamoto, E. Umebayashi, N. Ebara
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Fuel assemblies in the reactor core of Fugen can not be verified directly due to the unique reactor structure so the IAEA inspection goal…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tracy R. Wenz, Howard Menlove, H. Kobayashi, Takashi Asano, H. Maruyama, J. Ninagawa
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GBAS (Glove Box Assay System), which is a neutron coincidence counting system, was developed under the agreement between PNC and DOE(LANL)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Takahashi, T. Yamaguchi, Minoru Aoki, T. Satoh
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Solid wastes generated from MOX fabrication facility have to be verified during inspection as same as nuclear fuel material according to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ronald M. Keyser, Timothy R. Twomey
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Both fixed and portable safeguards applications place stringent demands on spectrometer systems. Instruments must perform well…