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Type:JNMM
Volume:4
Issue:2
Author(s):William Higinbotham
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National and international activities affecting safeguards, which took place during the last year, are listed. The Institute activities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W. S. Lyon, J.S. Eldridge
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Non-destructive y-ray spectroscopic techniques for the determination of uranium enrichment or concentration are conducted in a mobile assay…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven A. Tomes, Thomas C. Bishop
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With the advent of tighter security on all nuclear material--both on site and during site-tosite transporting--a unit control system was…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Eric E. Johnson
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Standard deviations based on monthly MUFs which are to be used for MUF control charts and LEMUFs should be corrected for the correlation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.D. Reilly, Scott Walker, L.W. Fields, R.B. Walton, L.R. Stieff, W.T. Mullins
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The neutrons produced from the ( a,n ) reaction on fluorine have been used to measure the U isotopic abundance in UF. samples. A 411…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E.F. Gambill
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An evaluation of the plant SIMM accountability system determined that some changes could be made to upgrade SNM security. A system has been…
Type:JNMM
Volume:4
Issue:2
Author(s):Dennis M. Bishop
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The current status of ANSI INMM N15 Standards Committee work in the area of nondestructive assay methods for nuclear materials control is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.M. Bishop
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The current status of ANSI INMM A/75 Standards Committee work in the area of nondestructive assay methods for nuclear materials control is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H.O. Menlove
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Performance characteristics of three different radioactive source NDA systems are compared for the assay of HTGR fuel rods and stacks of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. J. Malanify, A.E. Evans
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Small samples are assayed for fissile content by cylically bombarding them with 300-500-keV neutron pulses and counting between pulses…
Type:JNMM
Volume:4
Issue:1
Author(s):J.e. Rushton, J.D Jenkins, S. R. McNeany S. R. McNeany
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ABSTRACT Nondestructive fissile material assay techniques are reviewed for application to the refabrication of recycled fuel for High…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S.H. Smiley
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It is a pleasure to participate once again in the annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management. Being with you in this…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Victor Gilinsky
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My main purpose today is to discuss issues raised by the need for nuclear safeguards. As you know, these embrace both nuclear material…
Type:JNMM
Volume:3
Issue:4
Author(s):Frederick Forscher
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Nuclear fuel is now an object of commerce and international trade. Fissile isotopes are a commodity of great economic significance, but…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Herbert J.C. Kouts
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Safeguards is an area that has occupied the attention of many of us for some time. Its boundaries have changed with time, and the degree of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Carl Walske, Carl Walske
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Today I want to share with you a few thoughts on nuclear safeguards, both for application internationally and domestically. Certainly the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.C. Erdmann, R.R. Fullwood
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Fault tree and decision tree analyses provide systematic bases for evaluation of safety systems and procedures designed to protect the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.W. Handshuh
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A computerized nuclear material accounting system is described which enables a utility to account for its material throughout the entire…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.L. Bramblett
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In many government and private nuclear fuels facilities, waste containing SNM is packaged in large drums. Future facilities will generate…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kenneth E. SANDERS
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Process modelling is currently being used in several safeguards related projects for systematically analyzing problems and evaluating…