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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mahmood Ahmad, Charlie McVay, Srini Venkatesh
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Low Level radioactive Waste (LLW) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) at Aiken, South Carolina, has traditionally been disposed of using…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.B. Smith
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The Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant is developing a Continuous Automated Vault Inventory System to address needs for the long-term storage of special…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kevin Simmons, Norm C. Anheier, Paul Sliva, N. Ross Gordon
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A prototype secure container was prepared that uses continually monitored optical fiber as the smart structure. A small (=7.6 cm x 10.2 cm…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.P. Hutchinson, J.A. Ramsey, Marc L. Simpson, David Holcomb, Mark Buckner
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Special nuclear material (SNM) storage vaults presently require periodic inventories as part of their safeguards and security plan.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jonathan Sanborn, William Stanbro, Mary Anne Yates
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In September, 1993, President Clinton announced a major new initiative to end the production of Plutonium and highly enriched uranium for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Daniel A. Pritchard
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This paper describes the conceptual design and preliminary performance modeling of a 360- degree imaging sensor. This sensor combines…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James Sprinkle, T.H. Prettyman, G. Sheppard
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The results of an experimental study to evaluate the performance of an advanced lump correction algorithm for gamma-ray assays of plutonium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.P. Renz, J.R. Wetzel, D. Parks
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A large volume air bath calorimeter with two preconditioners has been in operation at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.J Traina, Michael Soriano, Robert D. Oldham, A.V. Stiffin
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The New Brunswick Laboratory (NBL) provides assessment support to DOE Operations Offices for Material Control and Accountability (MC&A…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Cal Jaeger
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Sandia National Laboratories was a member of the Weapons Complex Reconfiguration (WCR) Safeguards and Security (S&S) team providing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Fredy Franssen, S. Johnson, Thomas E. Shea
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Design Information Verification (DIV), continues, in a highlighted manner, to be the cornerstone for the application of international…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Sheppard, Eric C. Piquette
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For a conventional segmented gamma-ray scanner (SGS) in which the sample is rotated continuously within a fixed detector field of view, the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Krick, S. Klosterbuer, W. Hansen, S. C. Bourrett, J. Halbig, D.V. Hicks
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An electronics package for a small, battery-operated, self-contained, neutron coincidence counter based on a portable shift-register (PSR)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Richter, K. Rudolf, R. Weh
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The facilities of the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in Germany, such as interim dry storage facilities, conditioning facilities and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hellen M. Hunt
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Since the break-up of the former Soviet Union there have been grave worldwide concerns regarding effectiveness of material control and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.V. Izmallov
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It is pleasure for me to present this report to describe and generalize main results obtained by State Esteblishment \"Eleron\" as leading…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James W. Kronberg
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Cadmium-bearing scrap from nuclear applications, such as neutron shielding and reactor control and safety rods, must usually be handled as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Guardini
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The international auditing of nuclear materials accounts creates a need for internationally accepted quantification of the performances…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Graham Leach
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Perimeter Intruder Detection Systems (PIDS) often alarm for reasons other than an intruder breaking into a site. There is a need to verify…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lothar Koch, Lothar Koch, G. Nicolaou, G. Nicolaou
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An experimental and theoretical assessment is presented of the radiation dose levels encountered in the fabrication and discharge of fuels…