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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SAFEGUARDS ASSISTANCE TO THE REPUBLICS OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen R. Caudill, Stephen R. Caudill, Charles W. Emeigh, Michael F. Kelly, Michael F. Kelly, Janice Dunn Lee
Abstract:
Since 1992,the U.S. Nuclear RegulatoryCommission(NRC)has been wrking to help improvenuclear safeguardsat both the nationaland…
U.S. TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO IAEA SAFEGUARDS STRENGTHENING EFFORTS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ira N. Goldman
Abstract:
Beginning in mid-1993, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) undertook AProgramme 93 + 2\" to evaluate a variety of measures to…
U.S.-RUSSIAN COLLABORATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN METHODOLOGICAL AND TRAINING CENTER
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan M. Bieber, Greg Sheppard, G. Pshakin, R. Cross, D. Dickman, D. Ek, C. Key, B. Ryazanov,, G. Sanord
Abstract:
Since the initial decision by the Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom), in March 1994 to create a state Russian…
U.SJRussian Lab-to-Lab Materials Protection, Control and Accounting Program A. A. Bochvar’s All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM)
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan M. Bieber, B. Siskind, Ronald Augustson, M. Ehinger, Wayne Ruhter, Hiroshi Hoida, Vladimir Kositsyn, Vladimir Rudenko
Abstract:
The All-Russian Scientific Reseamh Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM) performs reseamh in nuclear power reactor fuel, spent fiel…
ULTRASOUND READER FOR POLLUX CASK SEALS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R Weh, K. Rudolf, B. Richter, U. Netzelmann, G. Giersch, D. Van Der Eecken
Abstract:
To the end of maintaining the continuity of knowledge of the cask inventory during transportation and intermediate storage a sealing system…
Uncertainty Determination Demonstration Program On MC&A Measurement Systems *
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John P. Clark, A. Harper Shull
Abstract:
Statistically propagated limits of error(LOE) for accountability measurements are usually smaller than LOEs derived from historical data.…
UNITED STATES - RUSSIAN LABORATORY-TO-LABORATORY COOPERATION ON PROTECTION, CONTROL, AND ACCOUNTING FOR NAVAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Vladimir Sukhoruchkin, D.G. McConnell, Mark Mullen, Nikolai Yurasov, Yuri Goncharenko
Abstract:
In March 1995, the Russian Navy contacted safeguards experts at the Kurchatov Institute (IQ and proposed the initiation of work to enhance…
UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE TO KAZAKSTAN IN THE AREA OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SECURITY
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Douglas Reilly, J. K. Halbig, James Sprinkle, Wanda G. Mitchell, Margaret Barham, Garry Tittemore, Charles Roche, Brad Steele, R. Burnham, J. Mason, D. Olsen, P. Planchon, M. Shapiro, F. Crane, R. Case, A. Eras
Abstract:
The United States has agreed to pursue cooperative nuclear Material Protection, Control & Accounting (MPC&A) programs with the…
UNITED STATES PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION, ACQUISITION, AND UTILIZATION FROM 1944 THROUGH 1994
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Leonard W. Myers, Edward L. Reynolds, Mark E. Byers
Abstract:
On February 6, 1996, Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary held an openness press conference to declassify the United States (U. S.) plutonium…
US-RUSSIAN COLLABORATION FOR ENHANCING NUCLEAR MATERIALS PROTECTION, CONTROL, AND ACCOUNTING AT THE ELEKTROSTAL URANIUM FUEL-FABRICATION PLANT*
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ronald Cherry, Margaret Barham, Jack Allentuck, Kate Bricker, Hastings Smith, Mark Bishop, Brad Steele
Abstract:
In September 1993, an implementing agreement was signed that authorized collaborative projects to enhance Russian national materials…
US./Russian Laboratory-to-Laboratory MPC&A Program at the VNIITF Institute, Chelyabinsk-70
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Leslie G. Fishbone, S.A. Wallace, Mark Rowland, Michael O’Brien, M. Ehinger, Tom James, Tom James, John A. Blasy, Wayne Ruhter, James R. Griggs, Vladimir Teryohin, Vladimir Teryohin, Gennady Tzygankov, Richard Wallace, Richard Wallace, Michael Ehinger, Leslie Fishbone, James Griggs, Jack Blasy, Mark Rowland
Abstract:
The All Russian Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF) is one of the major sites in the nuclear weapons complex in Russia. The site…
US/BELARUSIAN GOVERNMENT-TO-GOVERNMENT MATERIAL PROTECTION, CONTROL, AND ACCOUNTING COOPERATION AT THE SOSNY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.W. Madsen, Michael Haase, Roger S. Case Jr., Mark Baumann, Edvaurd Krevsum
Abstract:
A formal program of cooperation between the US Department of Energy and the Belarusian regulatory agency Promatornnazdor (PAN) began in…
US/RUSSIA GOVERNMENT-TO-GOVERNMENT COOPERATION IN MATERIAL PROTECTION, CONTROL, AND ACCOUNTING AT THE SSC-RIAR, DIMITROVGRAD
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Larry Satkowiak, James Powers, S.C. Suda, Bryan L. Fearey, D.L. Lowe, Yuri I. Kharlanov, Lawernce Satkowiak, David Banner, Walter Kato, Brian Naylor
Abstract:
The US/Russia Government-to-Government Cooperation in Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A) was established in an…
USE OF CIVIL SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR IAEA SAFEGUARDS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. J. Canty, Bhupendra Jasani, Bernd Richter, G. Stein, M. Ward
Abstract:
It is now well recognised that information gathered from space by remote sensing satellites could enhance the International Atomic Ener…
USE OF THE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM ASCOT FOR ESTIMATION OF SECURITY STUDIES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. Le Manchec, F. Werkoff
Abstract:
ASCOT is a decision supportsystem for estimation of security studies in relation with tracking and accountancy control system. The…
UWRUSSIAN LABORATORY-TO-LABORATORY PROGRAM IN MATERIALS PROTECTION, CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING AT THE RRC KURCHATOV INSTITUTE
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Smoot, Leslie G. Fishbone, B. Siskind, James D. Williams, Vladimir Sukhoruchkin, J.E. Stewart, Rena Whiteson, P. Singh, Bradley Weil, John A. Blasy, Wayne Ruhter, V.M. Shmelev, A.N. Roumiantsev, James R. Griggs, L.E. Predika, Sergei Antipov, S. Peter Gary, Susan Voss, Rob York
Abstract:
Six US Department of Energy Laboratories are carrying out a program of cooperation with the Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute to…
VALIDATION OF THE MCNP MONTE CARLO CODE FOR GERMANIUM DETECTOR GAMMA EFFICIENCY CALIBRATIONS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Frazier L. Bronson, Ling Wang
Abstract:
Canberra designs a variety of instruments that are required to accurately measure the radioactivity content of large andor complex sources…
Verification and Transparency in Future Arms Control
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph F. Pilat
Abstract:
Verification’s importance has changed dramatically over time, although it has been in the forefront of arms control in the post-World War…
Verifying the Absence of Undeclared Activities
Type:JNMM
Volume:25
Issue:1
Author(s):M. J. Canty, Rudolf Avenhaus
Abstract:
The resource distribution problem posed to arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation regimes by the extension of the rights of…
VIRTUAL REAL-TIME INSPECTION OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL VIAVRML AND SECURE WEB PAGES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. Nilsen, Jeff Jortner, Jerry Friesen
Abstract:
Sandia National Laboratories’ Straight-Line project is working to provide the right sensor information to the right user to enhance the…