Implementation of the MPC&A Operations Monitoring (MOM) System at the Kurchatov Institute

Year
2003
Author(s)
Joseph Carbonaro - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Lorilee Brownell - National Nuclear Security Administration
James A. Coffing - Aquila Technologies Group
Trevor Pratt - Brookhaven National Laboratories
A. S. Grigoriev - Kurchatov Institute
Abstract
Work on creating a remote monitoring system, based on state-of-the-art monitoring, data transfer, and storage technology has taken place at the Kurchatov Institute (KI) for over eight years, KI begin work under the Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A) Program on a joint Russian-US Remote Monitoring System (RMS) to safeguard Special Nuclear Material (SMM)