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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):James R. Younkin, Michael Schultze, Lloyd Clonts, Shane Frank, Brad Stinson, Bogdan Vacaliuc
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The Transportation–Security, Tracking and Reporting System (T-STAR) was developed by the National NuclearSecurity Administration, NA-21,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Frank Koch
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For several years, many activities concerning ageing issues of dry storage casks for spent fuel have been going on. As an initial activity…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Marianna Moutarde, Alan Carcreff, Benoit ECKERT, Florence Gauthier, Igor Le Bars, Anne-Cécile Jouve
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Dual Purpose Casks (DPCs) are currently loaded and stored for decades. Stored, but ready to be transported at any time: some facilities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Morag K. Smith, Jacob Benz, Peter Marleau, Michele DeCroix, Deborah Dale, Kristin Hertz
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The Arms Control, Treaty Verification, and Dismantlement Subcommittee has started the development of a primer and annotated bibliography.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sherzod R. Kurbanbekov
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An estimate of the highly enriched uranium (HEU) stockpile of North Korea is presented based on the available information in literature on…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Malte Göttsche, Antonio Figueroa, Martin Frank
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As of today, mainly two approaches to reconstruct past fissile material production can be considered: First, some concepts for measurements…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James M. Ghawaly Jr., Daniel Archer, Howard Hall
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The automated detection and characterization of anomalous radiological signatures is of great importance for persistent radiation detection…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Marc Péridis, Florence-Nathalie Sentuc, Martin Sonnenkalb, Jörn Stewering, Maik Stuke
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Spent fuel dry cask storage facilities are proven part of many waste management concepts. The recent German strategy foresees a storage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Chihiro Narazaki, Akitsugu Sonoda, Satoshi Miyamura, Maki Hiramoto, Yusei Tanaka, Yoshitaka Doken
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In Japan, spent nuclear fuel is stored on an interim basis until it is being reprocessed. Thus, it is mandatory that metal casks maintain…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Junghyun Bae, Robert S. Bean
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Since U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un had their meeting in June 2018, in Singapore, the Trump…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Walker Arce, Dongming Peng, Juan Lopez
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Tracking accountable nuclear material is of the utmost importance in the nuclear material management domain. Presented here is an…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Akira Tao, Hiroyuki Morita
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We have succeeded in an application of the Rigid Polyurethane Foam (R-PUF) to shock absorber for a transport cask. In case of drop event at…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Akihiro Shin, Hiroaki Arai, Masanori Goto, Soichiro Okazaki, Takaaki Yamada, Hiroshi Azuma
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Concrete cask system is widely used in the United States, but it has not been put into practical use in Japan. To apply the concrete cask…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Annette Rolle, Viktor Ballheimer, Tino Neumeyer, Frank Wille
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The containment systems of transport and storage casks for spent fuel and high level radioactive waste usually include bolted lids with…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William S. Charlton, Jay P. Joshi
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134Cs, 137Cs, and 154Eu are prominent fission product gamma-ray sources in used nuclear fuel. The activity of these fission products is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Malinda S. Devaney, Nichole White, Kimberly K. Anderson
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During a series of consultancy meetings at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to develop a technical document that assists in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Brian Craig, Lucas Vander Wal, Kevin Byrne, Yung Liu, James Shuler
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ARG-US (meaning “Watchful Guardian”) Remote Area Modular Monitoring (RAMM) is a remote, “unattended” monitoring system with a two-layered…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Zenghu Han, Ronald Pope, Yung Liu, James Shuler
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The U.S. Department of Energy Packaging Certification Program, Office of Environmental Management sponsors a training course on the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Edward Ketusky, Lynh Nugyen
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Used Fuel Disposition Campaign (UFDC), in collaboration with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Commie Byrum, Ken Martin
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On a daily basis in the United States, multiple shipments of Category 1 and 2 radiological materials are transported within and across our…