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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mika Nikkinen
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Spent fuel attribute tester (SFAT) is a method for the gross defect verification of the spent fuel. The verification is based on the gamma…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas H. Prettyman, P.A. Russo, W. C. Feldman, A. Gavron, C. C. Cheung
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Gamma-ray and neutron imaging technology is emerging as a useful tool for nuclear materials safeguards. Principal applications include…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Peter A Clark, Oliver P. Nicols
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The safe and safeguardable storage of plutonium has, in the past been primarily the concern of the reprocessing plants and fuel production…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert H. Graham
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A rapidly deployable security system is one that provides intrusion detection, assessment, communications, and annunciation capabilities;…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John P. Clark
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The quality of a measurement can be determined by evaluating its uncertainty statement against the user's requirements. If the measured…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Pierre FUNK, Alain NICAUD, Jean-Claude BONIFACIO
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A recent development has been undertaken in the area of containment and surveillance. Its objective was to integrate data from various…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John J. Oras, Michael E. Wangler
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The American National Standard for Radioactive Materials - Leakage Tests on Packages for Shipment (ANSI N14.5) provides guidance for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven P. Kadner, Elizabeth Turpen
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Advances in digital technologies and telecommunications capabilities are increasingly being acknowledged as prospective tools in achieving…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen Dupree, Cecil Sonnier, Gordon Washburn
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Under international partnerships and bilateral agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, other national…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Puckett, Leonard Burczyk
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Recent developments in Internet technologies are changing and enhancing how we process and exchange information. These developments include…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):HIRONOBU OKAMOTO
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The bituminization demonstration facility (hereinafter called the \"BDF\") was constructed for processing low-level radioactive waste…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven P. Kadner, K. Ferguson, W.S. Roman, S. Kraus, M. Zebarth
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Currently available avtive or passive electronic toagging systems either require a large and costly porthol monitoring antenna with limited…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David W. Crawford
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This paper discusses the increased role of containment and surveillance (CIS) in safeguarding special nuclear materials (SNM) in long-term…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rena Whiteson, Robert P. Landry, A.N. Roumiantsev, S. Peter Gary, Mike Boor, Yuri A. Ostroumov, Benny Martinez, Sharon L. Seitz, Linda K. Anderson
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The threat of nuclear weapons proliferation is a problem of global concern. International efforts at nonproliferation focus on preventing…
Type:JNMM
Volume:25
Issue:4
Author(s):Kiyonobu Yamashita, Fujio Miyamoto, Sigeaki Nakagawa, Toshiyuki Tanaka
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The High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) is an HTGR-type research reactor — direct access to the core for inspection is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E. Arnold Hakkila, Tom Burr
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Domestic and international safeguards considerations of the various plutonium disposition program options were studied. The options…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W. Gmelin,
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Developments during the last two years resulted in policies intended to strengthen the international nonproliferation and safeguards…
Type:JNMM
Volume:25
Issue:4
Author(s):David Crawford
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This paper provides a technical justification for the safeguards termination limit (STL) for immobilized nuclear materials being…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen Dupree, Gotthard Stein, Cecil Sonnier, Carlo Foggi
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The Joint ESARDA-INMM Workshop on Science and Modern Technology for Safeguards was held in Arona, Italy, October 28-31,1996. It was…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H.D. GARBIN, P.B. HERRINGTON, R.P. KROMER
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Questions have arisen regarding the applicability of seismic sensors to detect mining (re-entry) with a tunnel boring machine (TBM). Unlike…