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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Laura E. Maggos, Candido Pereira, Jacqueline M. Copple
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Within the Materials Protection, Accounting, and Control Technologies (MPACT) Campaign, of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear…
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Author(s):Monika Risse, Jeannette Glabian, Theo Koeble
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In the field of detection of nuclear and radioactive material a large variety of measurement systems for different application purposes…
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Author(s):Sharon Robinson, Robert Jubin, Bradley Patton
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Qualitative approaches to performing decision analyses for project start-ups have been developed and successfully implemented by Oak Ridge…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kgolofelo Radzilani, Robert Chauke, Eva T. Mbedzi, Philemon P. Magampa, Jones Bohlolo
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In this work, U-containing hold-up historical items coming from the U reduction process of UF4 to U-metal are quantified and verified using…
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Author(s):Mark Croce, Chandler Smith, Aidan Tollefson, Katrina Koehler, Matthew Carpenter, Andrey Bosko
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By placing a small nuclear material sample inside a microcalorimeter detector, the total decay energy for each alpha-decaying nuclide can…
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Author(s):So-yeon Shin, Woojin Kim
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At present, various analytical instruments are in use for nuclear forensic analysis, with most instruments requiring pretreatment in the…
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Author(s):Jeffrey Allender, Mark Hogue
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The Department of Energy is downblending surplus plutonium for disposal as transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, with a…
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Author(s):Chris Scott Blessinger, Linda Paschal, Mike Dion, Jared Johnson, Jon Garrison
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Radiation signature training device sources are a continuation of a previous effort to produce a highly enriched uranium equivalent sphere…
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Author(s):Ammon N. Williams, Greg Galbreth
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A safeguards approach for uranium and plutonium bearing molten salts requires knowledge of their concentrations as well as the total salt…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher Ramos, Warnick J. Kernan, Chris Pickett, Scott Stewart, Vlad Henzl, Natacha Peter Stein
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The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (…
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Author(s):Nataliia Klos, Christine Noonan
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In November 2019, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection co-hosted a regional workshop on insider threat mitigation in…
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Author(s):Anthony Galindo, Craig Marianno, Dalton Wise, Ulis Wood
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For students, and even professionals, functional demonstrations and experiments with equipment help increase understanding. Unfortunately,…
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Author(s):Tiffany Blanchard-Case, Stacey Foster, Danny Fox, Paul Gregson, Vicki Edmunds
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In 2018, the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom (UK) successfully completed a multi-year effort to remove almost 700 kilograms of…
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Author(s):Philip M. Almond, W. Glynn Dyer
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The Savannah River Site (SRS) and other sites began developing electrolytic dissolution methods for Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) as early as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Archana Yadav, Alpana Goel
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Human reliability is an important aspect of risk analysis focusing on the identification, analysis and quantification of the causes,…
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Author(s):Richard C. Last
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On 23 June 2016 the people of the UK voted to leave the European Union. This will happen on 31 January 2020. To implement this change, the…
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Author(s):David R. Farley
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An Accelerator Driven System (ADS) utilizes a particle beam to bombard a target that generates spallation neutrons, which are subsequently…
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Author(s):Cari Launiere, Nathaniel C. Hoyt, Elizabeth A. Stricker, Candido Pereira
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Tracking the composition of molten salt as it moves through an electrochemical fuel reprocessing facility is challenging because the…
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Author(s):Laura H. Micewski, Camille Palmer
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This review paper strives to formulate a comprehensive summary of the possibilities and probabilities of future uses of thorium in nuclear…
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Author(s):Luis Carlos Machado da Silva, Sonia Fernández Moreno, Fabio Dias, Horacio Lee Gonzales, Anibal Bonino, Marcos Moreira, Carlos Llacer, Leonardo Dunley, Max Facchinetti
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In order to meet verification requirements during and after the transfer of spent fuel assemblies from spent fuel ponds to dry storages at…