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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Pablo Carlos Florido, Roberto Cibils, Martin Marchioni, Mauro Nuñez, Eduardo Nassif
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Accurate knowledge of gamma radiation fields generated either by strategic materials, orphan sources, natural radiation environmental and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ramkumar Venkataraman, Klaus-Peter Ziock, Matthew Blackston, Angela Lousteau, Stephen Croft, Keith Bledsoe, Jordan Lefebvre, Jeffrey Preston, Justin Knowles
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Deposits in commercial uranium processing facilities of interest to nuclear safeguards are predominantly low enriched uranium (LEU). The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mitchell Negus, Rachel Slaybaugh, David Farley
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International safeguards rely on mutual cooperation between an international inspector and a State facility. However, only safeguards data…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jack Brosnan
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Women make up just one quarter of the nuclear industry’s global workforce, a trend mirrored in the world of nuclear policy. Only 31% of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yosuke Naoi, Masato Hori, Naoko Noro
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Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Security (ISCN), established under JAEA in December 2010 as Japan's…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Marc Fialkoff, Raphaël Duguay, Kimberly Anderson, Jason Karcz
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Transportable Nuclear Power Plants; more specifically, Floating Nuclear Power Plants (FNPPs) brings together the ancient traditions of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Seungsik Yu, Inseon Back, Sungwoo Ha
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The IAEA instituted a series of publications on nuclear security to provide recommendations and guidance that States can use in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dmitry Kovchegin, Olga Mikhaylova, Alexandra Sitdikova
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The U.S.-Russian nuclear security cooperation is an outstanding example of international cooperation in nuclear security and can be a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lisa De Laet, Rony Dresselaers, Christelle Creus, Tony Snoeck
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In many countries there is a screening in place as a preventive mitigation tool against the insider threat. This provides a picture of a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Patrick D. Lynch, Al-Sharif Nasser Bin Nasser, Karen Kaldenbach, Jasmine Auda
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In 2019, the Middle East Scientific Institute for Security (MESIS) hosted an international meeting on the process of establishing a Human…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nickolas J. Roth, Matthew Bunn, William H. Tobey, Dmitry Kovchegin, Laura Holgate
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In 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released the fifth revision of its Nuclear Security Recommendations on Physical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Anna Caldwell-Overdier, Lee Burke, Jackson Chin, Romarie Morales Rosado, Baptiste Mouginot, Paul Whitney, Paul Wilson
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In this paper we discuss a proof-of-concept statistical analysis of a nuclear fuel diversion scenario using only data representing material…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Igor Bolshinsky, Ken Bateman, Erlan Baterbekov, Erbol Koyanbayev, Yulia Baklanova
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The National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan (NNC) poses an Impulse Graphite Reactor (IGR) with homogeneous uranium-graphite core. Graphite…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Julie Oddou, François Bonino, Eugénie VIAL, Louis OLIVIER
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<i>The Treaty of Tlatelolco, opened for signature in 1967, establishes a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ) in the Latin America and the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Arpita Datta, Alpana Goel
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Nuclear energy plays an increasingly important role as a clean source of energy not only in India, but also in most of the countries around…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shaun D. Clarke, Nathan P. Giha, Sara A. Pozzi
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Nuclear explosion monitoring is performed globally using seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic, and radioxenon technologies. Of these four…
Type:JNMM
Volume:48
Issue:2
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Our friend and colleague, Dennis Mangan, passed from this life on September 28, 2020. “Denny” graduated from Notre Dame in 1960 with a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David L. Chichester, James T. Johnson, Scott M. Watson, Timothy R. Pope, Glenn A. Fugate
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A new In-Field Alpha Spectrometry (IFAS) system is being developed to allow quick turnaround measurements of uranium enrichment in uranium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jason M. Richards, Lee T. Trowbridge, Darrell W. Simmons, Harold L. Jennings, Chris P. Boring, Leigh R. Martin, Glenn A. Fugate, Pete Stephenson, Will C. Beaumont, William S. Cassata, Michael J. Singleton
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed systems that can access and collect head space…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen Croft, Ramkumar Venkataraman, Jeffrey Chapman, Thomas Sampson
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At about 14.3 years, 241 Pu has the shortest half-life of the abundant plutonium isotopes present in the products of reprocessed irradiated…