International Workshop on Best Practices in

In fall 2006, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) hostedan INMM-sponsored International Workshop on Best Practicesin Material Holdup Monitoring. This workshop represented thefirst time in more than twenty years that the international communityhad gathered to discuss pertinent holdup topics andneeds. More than 100 people attended the workshop. Theirexpertise in the field ranged from novice to expert, and theyshared their experiences throughout the week of the workshop.Presenters discussed techniques that have been used worldwideto detect and characterize nuclear materials held up inprocesses and equipment and the policies used to report quantitiesdetected. The primary goal of the workshop was to compileinformation on the best practices and lessons learned and to makethis information available for sharing throughout the internationalcommunity.This paper discusses the information that was produced fromfour separate working groups (each composed of workshop attendees).Each group was tasked to determine what it believed to bethe best practices in the field today and what issues needed to beaddressed to move the field forward in the 21st century.