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Using Public Blockchain For The Management Of Public Key Infrastructure To Strengthen Nuclear Safeguards
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Roberto Spigolon, Marco Sachy, Stefan Nonneman, Ricardo Neisse, Isabella Maschio
Abstract:
This paper demonstrates for the first time the potential of the application of Blockchain technology for managing a Public Key…
Using Vital Area Identification Insights In Security Effectiveness Evaluation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan Scott Evans, John Hockert
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Security effectiveness evaluation of complex nuclear facilities, such as commercial nuclear power reactors, is especially challenging…
Utilization Of 234 U In Gaseous Centrifuge Enrichment Plant Safeguards
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Adam M. Shephard, Houston G. Wood, Anthony Bellan
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With respect to meeting the International Atomic Energy Agency’s gaseous centrifuge enrichment plant (GCEP) safeguards objectives,…
Verification Of Pu And HEU In North Korea
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jungmin Kang, Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin
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As of the end of 2016, Albright, Hecker, Braun et al estimated 300-450 kg of HEU plus 150 kg/year, 200 kg of HEU plus 100 kg/year, and 133-…
Visually Obvious Tamper-indicating Enclosure Based On O2-sensitivity
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Heidi A. Smartt, Cody Corbin
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Tamper-indicating enclosures (TIEs) are used in treaty verification regimes to ensure that monitored items such as containers of nuclear…
Voices Of Nuclear Security: Perspectives From The Field
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jessica Bufford
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Voices of Nuclear Security was developed as an effort to humanize nuclear security by highlighting the experiences and views of people…
Wall Correction In Enrichment Measurements Based On The Enrichment Meter Principle
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ramkumar Venkataraman, Stephen Croft
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The enrichment meter principle is the physical justification of a commonly used technique to determine the 235 U-to- tot U atom fraction (…
Wins Guidance On Nuclear Security During Decommissioning
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Daniel Johnson
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Since the inception of the nuclear industry, more than 100 commercial power reactors, 250 experimental or research reactors, and numerous…
Workshop For Applied Nuclear Data Activities
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Catherine Romano
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The Nuclear Data Interagency Working Group (NDIAWG) hosted the Workshop for Applied Nuclear Data Activities (WANDA2020) in Washington, DC…
Y-12 Subsampling Of National Nuclear Material Archive Uranium Samples For High Precision Analysis
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Speaks, Jason McCall
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The National Nuclear Materials Archive (NNMA) program managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Counterterrorism…
10B(n, α)7Li Reaction-Assisted Corrosion of Al-B4C Metal Matrix Composite Neutron Absorber Irradiated in Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jung Yunsong, Sangjoon Ahn, Kiyoung Kim
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Al-B4C metal matrix composites (MMC) are neutron absorber materials widely used in spent fuel pool (SFP) to ensure the subcriticality with…
1648C Impact Validation And Verification
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Sean Perry
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International Nuclear Services is the design authority for a nuclear transport package known as the 1648C. This package was to be re-…
30-year cooperation between US-Japan in area of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard Menlove, Masato Hori, Yosuke Naoi, Hirofumi Tomikawa, Adrienne M. Lafleur, Naoko Noro, Michael Browne, Yoko Kawakubo, Kathryn Glynn, Brian Abeyta, Deborah Dale, Kevin Veal
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30-year cooperation between US-Japan in area of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear securityHirofumi Tomikawa1), Yoko Kawakubo1), Naoko…
3D Gamma-ray Mapping From An Unmanned Aerial System For International Nuclear Safeguards
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kai Vetter, Ryan Pavlovsky, Tenzing Joshi
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The Applied Nuclear Physics program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed a modular, gamma-ray mapping system, the…
5-Year Accelerated Corrosion Testing of MAXUS® for Spent Fuel Pool and Dry Cask Performance
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Matthew L. Eyre, Daisuke Nagasawa, Aaron C. Herfurth, Toshiaki Yamazaki
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Many pool fuel storage racks and fuel storage/transportation packages incorporate neutron absorbers to improve the space efficiency of…
6 m3 Concrete Box Studies
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Conrad Izatt, Darryl Smith, Phillip Ashton
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Magnox Ltd. is intending to use 6 m3 Concrete Boxes (CBs) for the packaging and disposal of Intermediate Level radioactive Waste (ILW) at a…
60th Annual Meeting - Opening Plenary Session
Type:JNMM
Volume:47
Issue:4
Author(s):Tammy Taylor, Therese Renis for Massimo Aparo
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This article is a written recording of the Opening Plenary session at the INMM 60th Annual Meeting on Monday, July 15, 2019.
9981 Type AF Shipping Container Testing
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Fletcher M. Davis, Paul Blanton, Joshua Flach, Christopher Cable
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The 9981 Type AF Shipping container was an adaptation from the 9979 Type AF container. It was designed to carry a heavier payload to meet…
A Bayesian Network Based Security Assessment Methodology for SMR Physical Protection Design
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Man-Sung Yim, Andhika Y. Prawira
Abstract:
Small and Modular Reactor (SMRs) have several features that will improve the safety and security of the plant. However, the decrease in…
A central limit approximation for dead time corrections in high rate measurements
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Chen Dubi, Rami Atar
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Detector dead time, caused by both the physical attributes of the the detection process and the electronic registration system, is perhaps…