Year
2003
Abstract
Many monitoring and inspecting efforts that are intended to address storage of classified nuclear materials utilize attribute measurement systems. Although such measurement systems have been extensively described, these descriptions have often been dependent on a specific monitoring regime or set of attributes. There are a number of desirable features of attribute measurement systems that are independent of the specifics of the intended use. In particular, many details of the information barrier as well as details of system authentication are common to various regimes of use. These common features can be exploited during the design of each individual measurement system. In particular, the utility of unclassified reference material measurements as an aid to authentication depends on separation of security and data analysis functions. If there is communication between these functions, then the usefulness of both reference material measurements and the open mode for authentication will be severely degraded.