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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas Krieger, Aaron M Bevill, Claude F. Norman, Robert Binner, Thomas Burr
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The IAEA uses random inspections (RIs) to, inter alia, provide credible assurance that declared nuclear facilities are not used for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jana Petrovic, Alf Göök, Debora M. Trombetta, Bo Cederwall
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We report on the development of a novel approach to sensitive detection and imaging of special nuclear materials (SNM) within the context…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Fleurdeliza dePeralta, Kim Lawson-Jenkins
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Nuclear power plants (NPPs) that implement strong security measures to detect suspicious network activities and effective strategies to…
Type:JNMM
Volume:49
Issue:3
Author(s):Andriy Berlizov, Joseph Carbonaro, Arden D. Dougan, Pierre Funk, Markku Koskelo, Alain Lebrun, Mikhail Mayorov, Brent McGinnis, Ramkumar Venkataraman, Ann-Laure Weber, Marc Wonders, Jozsef Zsigrai
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Nondestructive assay (NDA) measurement techniques have played an integral role in the independent verification of state declarations by…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michelle Ruth Potter, Scott Brooks, Andrew Duncan, Casey Burr, David Novick
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Use of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) is one of the fastest growing technology spaces in the global commercial market. This rapid growth…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph Rivers, Jesse Bland, Steven M Horowitz
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As applicants and vendors begin to bring to fruition their concepts for advanced reactors, the regulatory uncertainty poses significant…
Type:JNMM
Volume:49
Issue:2
Author(s):Robert Pierce, L. C. Olson, H. M. Ajo
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Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) has developed a process for digestion of the graphite and disposition of the Th/U oxides from…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard M. Essex, Lav Tandon, Cole R. Hexel, Amy M. Gaffney
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Nuclear forensic analyses of plutonium (Pu) materials encountered outside nuclear safeguards control can include chemical composition,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Last
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The UK has now left the European Union. On 1 January 2021 accountancy and control regulation moved from Euratom’s system to the UK’s own…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Caroline Mathews, Robert T Otto, Jill Cooley, Robert Brigantic, Kenneth D Jarman, Benjamin A Wilson, Angela Dalton, Angela Dalton
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Safeguards conclusions are the ultimate product of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verification process and ensuring their…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Karen Y Kaldenbach, Michael Schultze
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Remote Design and Deployment of the Transport-Security, Tracking, and Reporting (T-STAR) SystemMichael Schultze, Oak Ridge National…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kamel Abbas, Vítor Sequeira, Francesco Raiola, Stefan Nonneman
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The Nuclear Security Unit of the Department of Nuclear Security and safeguards of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephan Bayer, Kalman A Robertson, Lyndell Evans
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Like many countries, Australia faced multiple challenges in upholding its safeguards obligations under the impacts of the COVID pandemic.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Matthew Murray, Julien Persin, Glen Horton, Shinji Nakajima, Toshihide Kabuki, Katsuyoshi Oyama
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IAEA Safeguards relies heavily on the timely access of inspectors to nuclear material and facilities to support the drawing of conclusions…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lohith Annadevula, Kenneth D Jarman, Sukesh K. Aghara, Thomas Krieger, Logan J Joyce
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Statistical models are used to calculate probability of detection of diverted material for individual nuclear material strata to assess the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sean Martinson, Sunil S. Chirayath
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Monte Carlo (MC) neutronics codes are popular tools that have been used in academic and industrial applications for over three decades. MC…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brian W. Ticknor, George C.-Y. Chan, Benjamin T. Manard
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Instrumentation to make in-field isotopic measurements for verification of UF6 enrichment and analysis of environmental samples without the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Euan L Connolly, Samuel R White, Dean T Connor, Peter G Martin
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Resulting from an increase in the global volume of nuclear and radioactive materials under regulatory control as the international…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph Rivers
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There have been initiatives at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to risk-inform security. In order to effectively risk-inform…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Vernon Strosinski
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Paper for INMM Annual Meeting 2021Abstract Topic: Nuclear Security and Physical Protection / Radioactive Material Security / Alternative…