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Trilateral U.S./Russian/IAEA Site Visits to Argonne-West, Hanford, and Rocky Flats
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nancy Jo Nicholas, Bryan L. Fearey, Ronald Cherry, Caroline E. Smith
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U.S., Russian, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) representatives visited three Department of Energy (DOE) facilities, Hanford,…
U.S. Assistance in Physical Protection at The Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology and The Sevastopol Institute of Nuclear Energy and Industry, Ukraine
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Zinneman, G. Kuzmycz, J. Miranda, A. Novick
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The U.S. DOE is providing nuclear material safeguards assistance in both material control & accountability and physical protection to…
U.S. ASSISTANCE TO KAZAKSTAN IN THE AREA OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SECURITY
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Douglas Reilly, J. K. Halbig, Wanda G. Mitchell, Brad Steele, J. Mason, D. Olsen, P. Planchon, T. Gafford, F. Crane, R. Case, A. Eras, James K. Sprinkle, Jr., G. Tittemore, A. Atkins, M. Barham
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In December 1993, the Governments of the Republic of Kazakstan and the United States signed an agreement concerning control, accounting,…
U.S. Department of Energy International Agreements for Technical Cooperation in Safeguards
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Puckett, Kenneth E. Sanders
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has entered into Agreements with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Member States to engage in…
U.S. Non-Proliferation Initiatives and Regulations Vis-a-Vis Russia: An Ambulance Clase for Safeguards
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven P. Kadner, Elizabeth Turpen
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Export controls are one facet of any arms control regime; simultaneously, arms control, especially in the case of nuclear nonproliferation…
U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SAFEGUARDS ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA, KAZAKSTAN, AND UKRAINE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen R. Caudill, Charles W. Emeigh, Michael F. Kelly, Michael S. Warren
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Since 1992, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been working in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy to help improve…
U.S. SECURITY POLICY BOARD A VEHICLE FOR CHANGE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Winnie B. Lehman
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The U.S. Security Policy Board was created by Presidential Decision Directive, on September 16, 1994, in response to the recommendations…
U.S. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE IAEA AND THECHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - A REVIEW AND LOOK TO THE FUTURE*
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph P. Indusi, Ann Reisman, Raymond J. Parsick
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This paper reviews the Safeguards mandate of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and describes U.S. technical support programs.…
U.S.-RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT-TO-GOVERNMENT MPC&A UPGRADES AT THE BELOYARSK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AND SF NIKIET
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. R. Hatcher, Michael Haase, Roger Showalter, Mark S. Soo Hoo, Erik Engling, Chris Robertson, K.R. Mikkelsen, Mac Forehand, Cynthia Heinberg
Abstract:
During the sixth meeting of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission (GCC-6) held in Washington, DC, in January 1996, the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power…
U.S.-Russian Government-To-Government MPC&A Upgrades at the Institute Of Theoretical And Experimental Physics
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Cameron Coates, Neil R. Zack, R.W. Madsen, Michael Haase, Mark S. Soo Hoo, Erik Engling, Mark Baumann
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Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A) upgrades have begun at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (…
UF6 FISSILE MASS FLOW SIMULATION AT OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.E. Valentine, Tanner Uckan, Jose March-Leuba, John K. Mattingly, J.T. Mihalczo, J.A. McEvers
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A system for monitoring fissile mass flow in slurries, liquid and gaseous streams has been developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The…
United States - Russian Cooperation on Protection, Control, and Accounting for Naval Nuclear Materials
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Vladimir Sukhoruchkin, Alexandr Grigoriev, Michael O’Brien, C.D. Croessmann, R.W. Madsen, Byron Gardner, Mark Mullen, Sergei Antipov, Nikolai Yurasov, Yuri Goncharenko, Robert L. Martinez, Mac Forehand, David Caskey, Robert Follis, Brian Kaldenbach
Abstract:
The Russian Navy uses highly enriched uranium (20-90%) for nuclear-powered ships. This nuclear material has been categorized as “weapons-…
Unresolved Safety Issues in the Storage and Transport of Vitrified High-Level Nuclear Waste
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Edwin S. Lyman
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Over the next fifteen years, approximately 3000 canisters of vitrified high-level radioactive waste (VHLW) will be shipped by sea to Japan…
UPDATE OF PROJECT STRAIGHT-LINE, A COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR MATERIAL MONITORING SYSTEM
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. Nilsen, Robert Kinzel, Brad Mickelsen
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Straight Line has been developed by Sandia National Laboratories over the past several years to monitor stored fissile materials for safety…
UPGRADES TO THE ACCESS CONTROLS AT THE BN-350 REACTOR IN AKTAU, KAZAKSTAN
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brad Steele, R. Case, David Moore, R. Bruce Berry, Victor Anikin
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In December of 1993, the governments of the United States and Kazakstan entered into an agreement concerning the control, accounting and…
US Department of Energy (DOE)/Gosatomnadzor (GAN) of Russia Project at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)*
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Gene Hauser, I.A. Baranov, A. Konoplev
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The Russian Academy of Science B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), located 45 kilometers from St. Petersburg,…
US-RUSSIAN COLLABORATION IN MPC&A ENHANCEMENTS AT THE ELEKTROSTAL URANIUM FUEL-FABRICATION PLANT*
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Lee Schoeneman, D.L. Lowe, Margaret Barham, Jack Allentuck, Rena Whiteson, Bradley Weil, Hastings Smith, Mark Bishop, Don Wentz, William Murray, James Jefferis, Russell Barner
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Enhancement of the nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting of (MPC&A) at the Elektrostal Machine-Building Plant (ELEMASH…
US/RUSSIAN PROGRAM IN MATERIALS PROTECTION, CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING AT THE RRC KURCHATOV INSTITUTE: 1996-1997
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Smoot, Leslie G. Fishbone, B. Siskind, James E. Stewart, T. E. Sampson, P. Gary Eller, James D. Williams, Vladimir Sukhoruchkin, Rena Whiteson, P. Singh, Bradley Weil, John A. Blasy, Wayne Ruhter, A.N. Roumiantsev, James R. Griggs, L.E. Predika, Sergei Antipov, Rob York, Igor Bryagin, Richard R. Paternoster,
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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 miniature CdZnTe detectors for gamma-spectroscopy of a nuclear material
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lothar Koch, G. Nicolaou, K. Abbas
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Gamma-Spectroscopy on the nuclear material was performed using planar semiconductor detectors (CdTe,CdZnTe) Operating at room temperature.…
USE OF NEUTRON/GAMMA MONITORING SYSTEMS AS SAFEGUARDS USE OF NEUTRON/GAMMA MONITORING SYSTEMS AS SAFEGUARDS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Zendel, W. Lewis, M. Iyer
Abstract:
Neutron/gamma monitor systems are Non Destructive Assay (NDA) systems which are being applied for safeguards purposes in a number of…