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Network Security Mangement System
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Schonbachler, Ted Wright
Abstract:
The protection of personnel and property in high threat security areas continues to be a vexing problem. Nuclear Power Plants are potential…
Neutron Activation Analysis as a Cost Effective Alternative to Wet Chemistry Methods
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):F.F. Dyer, L. Robinson, D.W. Combs
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A neutron activation analysis (NAA) method was developed to analyze soil for Hg, 238U, and 235U as well as, Cr, As, Sb, Se, and Zn. The…
Neutron Shielding Material Applicable for Advanced Transport Packaging
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Nodaka, T. Iida, H. TANIUCHI, K. Yosimura, H. Nagahama
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From among the neutron shielding materials of the \"kobesh \" series developed by Kobe Steel, Ltd. for transport and storage packagings,…
New International Non-proliferation Regime and the Role of IAEA
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroyoshi Kurihara
Abstract:
Tremendous changes in the world political situation over the recent years have given strong impacts on the framework of international…
New Strategies for Protecting Special Nuclear Material
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Crawford
Abstract:
Complex reconfiguration, modernization, and weapons reduction/dismantlement operations will undoubtedly result in changes in operations…
Non-destructive Assay Techniques and Associated Measurement Uncertainties
Type:JNMM
Volume:20
Issue:2
Author(s):Sin-Tao Hsue, T. E. Sampson T. E. Sampson
Abstract:
To calculate the inventory differences/or a facility or process, we should have random error and bias estimates for all the measurement…
Non-proliferation and Inernational Safeguards
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Andre Petit
Abstract:
The INMM has just decided to create a new division, the title of which is \"International safeguards and non-proliferation division\". This…
Non-proliferation Aspects of Commercial Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul J. Persiani
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In the international non-proliferation regime of concern, the denatured uranium (i.e., low enrichments in 235U or 233U) fuel cycles should…
Nondestructive Assays of 55-Gallon Drums Containing Uranium and Transuranic Waste Using Passive-active Shufflers
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P.M. Rinard, H.O. Menlove, J.K. Sprinkle, E.L. Adams
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A passive-active neutron shuffler for 55-gal. drums of waste has been characterized using more than 1500 active and 500 passive assays on…
Nuclear Material Accounting: The Next Generation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):L.P. McRae, E.A. Kern, P.B. O'Callaghan, D. Yearsley
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Advances in computer hardware and software technology at the microcomputer level provide attractive alternatives to the current family of…
OECD-NEA Criticality Working Group- A Status Report and the Bumup Credit Challenge
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):G. E. Whitesides
Abstract:
The computational methods that are available to criticality safety specialists provide them with the ability to extend their knowledge…
On the Relevance of Reported Data for Material Balance Verification
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rudolf Avenhaus, M.J. Canty
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The optimal test procedure, for the situation in which deliberate falsification of reported data cannot be excluded, is derived in the…
One Approach to Accepting and Transporting Spent Fuel From Early-Generation Reactors with Short Fuel Assemblies
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.W. Peterson, E.J. Bentz Jr., C.B. Bentz
Abstract:
In the early days of development of commercial nuclear power reactors in the U.S., the overall length and uranium loading of the fuel…
One Piece Reactor Removal :An Innovative Approach for Research Reactor Renewal
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Wei-Min Chia, Song-Feng Wang
Abstract:
The strategy of Taiwan Research Reactor Renewal plan is to reoove the old reactor block withOne Piece Reactor Rerooval (OPRR) method for…
Ontario Hydro Radioactive Filter Transport Packages
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K.K Lo, M.E. Gavin, J.F. Tanaka
Abstract:
Ontario Hydro operates 18 heavy water moderated reactors generating 13.2 GW of electrical power. For purification of the heavy water used…
Opening Address
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Shigebumi Aoki
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Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen! It is a great pleasure and rare proud for me to declare the lOth International Symposium on Packaging…
Operational and Safety Aspects of Vitrified Waste Casks
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Kirchner
Abstract:
For the countries which have chosen reprocessing, closing the fuel cycle implies in particular to take back the resulting vitrified high…
OPTIMIZATION ANALYSIS OF IRRADIATED TARGETS TRANSPORT SHIELDING TO BE USED IN A 99Mo PRODUCTION PLANT
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Adelia Sahyun, Gian Maria Sordi, F.L. Biazini Filho, C.R. Romero Filho
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The aim of this paper is to optimize the shielding thickness to transport fission products from IPEN to a laboratory in charge of the…
Over-the-Road Testing of Radioactive Materials Packagings•
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. E. Glass, K. W. Gwinn
Abstract:
Sandia National Laboratories has an ongoing program to characterize the environments encountered during normal surface transport of…
Packaging Development Needs To Support Environmental Restoration*
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. H. Hummer, J. L. Kuklinski
Abstract:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is in the process of bringing all of its facilities into compliance with present environmental…