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Improvement of Laboratory Capabilities
for Safeguards Measurements of Nuclear
Material
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Buda, K. Casteleyn, J. Horta-Domenech, A. Sanchez-Hernandez, E. Zuleger
Abstract:
The Directorate-General Energy (ENER) fulfils the safeguards obligations stipulated by the Article 77 of EURATOM treaty for European…
Improvements to nuclear data in service of Intentional Forensics
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Amber Lauer-Coles, D.A. Brown, A. Cuadra, A. Mattera
Abstract:
The Intentional Forensics (IF) venture seeks to identify and perfect tagging technologies for nuclear fuel provenance and tracking. These…
Including Safeguards in the Radioactive Waste Planning Process
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nicholas Smith, Rebecca Robbins, Jeremy J Whitlock
Abstract:
When States create or assess their radioactive-waste program, they must be able to examine the entirety of the process, from generation to…
Increasing Non-proliferation through Collaboration between NWS and
NNWS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Fadhlur Rahman Alfaruqi
Abstract:
The Russian invasion of Ukraine can generate momentum either to motivate a country to start a nuclear weapon program or, on the opposite…
INSIGHTS FROM THE SECURITY OF ADVANCED REACTORS WORKSHOP
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Aaron Fjeldsted, Jonathan Balog, Madison Gitzen, Christopher Balbier, Josef Bauer, Branko Kovacevic, Matthew Zerphy, Joseph Rivers
Abstract:
The Nuclear Security and Physical Protection Technical Division of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) and The…
INSPECTA 1.0: IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES FOR ON-DEVICE
SPEECH AND VISION TASKS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nathan Shoman, Philip Honnold, Heidi Smartt, David Hannasch
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has become ubiquitous in our day-to-day lives, powering common conveniences such as…
Inspecta 1.0: Incorporating Spot Robotic Support
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Zahi Kakish, Kyle Williams, Shiloh Elliot, Sagan Cox, Heidi Smartt
Abstract:
Sandia National Laboratories has designed and is developing Inspecta (International Nuclear Safeguards Personal Examination and…
Institutionalizing Safeguards by Design: Opportunities and Challenges for Newcomer
Countries
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Juanita Ayivor, Ann Mensah, Alex Osei-Agyemang
Abstract:
With the expansion and evolving of Nuclear Power Plant technologies to more newcomer countries comes further burden on international…
Integration of Nuclear Safety and Security in Research Reactors using a Monte Carlo
Simulation aided Analytical Hierarchy Process
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jason T. Harris, Theodore Thomas
Abstract:
All operations involving nuclear and radioactive materials require exercising principles of nuclear safety and security. The goal of both…
Integration of the H3D-M400 detector and Spot robot for automated area
survey missions
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lohith Annadevula, Odera Dim, Steven Glozek, Yonggang Cui, Warren Stern, S.K. Aghara
Abstract:
Area survey and search/confirmation of nuclear/radioactive sources in public areas are challenging and time-consuming tasks. When…
Intentional Forensics: Tagging Strategies for Rapid Nuclear Material
Provenance Assessment
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Spencer M. Scott, Naomi Marks, Ashley E. Shields, Matthew S Wellons, David Brown, Nicholas Condon, Jeremy Osborn, Rebecca Chamberlain
Abstract:
Intentional Forensics is the strategy of deliberately introducing benign and persistent material signatures during nuclear fuel…
Interactive Deep Model Tuning for Surveillance
Review
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alvaro Casado-Coscolla, Carlos Sanchez Belenguer, Erik Wolfart, Vitor Sequeira
Abstract:
Video Surveillance is a time-consuming task for nuclear safeguards inspectors, having to review the video footage from hundreds of cameras…
International Nuclear Security Education Network (INSEN): an interdisciplinary forum for
nuclear security development
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Matteo Gerlini
Abstract:
Nuclear security hasn’t achieved a unanimously recognised status as an education track. Such a gap is partially understandable as a…
International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO)
Methodology for Sustainability Assessment of Nuclear Energy Systems: An Overview
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Randi Mazza, Carolynn Scherer, Brian Boyer
Abstract:
The International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO) was established in 2000 through an International Atomic…
Introduction of Physical Protection Corrective Action Program in JAEA
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hironobu Nakamura, Takahiko Kitao, Takashi Tasaki, Hideo Shiromo
Abstract:
In the nuclear security are, JAEA investigated a corrective action program for physical protection called“PPCAP”, and newly introduced it…
INVESTIGATING ISOTOPIC RATIO DISTRIBUTIONS AT IMS RADIONUCLIDE
STATIONS USING EMISSIONS FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES WITH DECAY
CORRECTION BASED ON THE ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT TIME
DISTRIBUTIONS FOR ONE YEAR
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yuichi KIJIMA, Robin Schoemaker, Boxue LIU, Joshua Kunkle, Anne Tipka, Jolanta Kumierczyk-Michulec, Martin Kalinowski
Abstract:
The isotopic ratios of radioxenon can be useful for the discrimination between CTBT-relevant radioxenon detections related to nuclear…
Investigating material attractiveness of minor actinides fuel for waste
transmutation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Débora M. Trombetta, Erik Branger, Markus Preston, Sophie Grape
Abstract:
Radiotoxicity of nuclear waste is dominated by fission products in the first ~500 years, while for longer times long-lived transuranic…
Investigation on Structural Incorporation of Dopants into Uranium Oxide
Structure Considering the Development of New Composite Reference
Microparticles
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shannon Potts, Philip Kegler, Giuseppe Modolo, Simon Hammerich, Martina Klinkenberg, Irmgard Niemeyer, Dirk Bosbach, Stefan Neumeier
Abstract:
In the Safeguards laboratories of Forschungszentrum Juelich an aerosol-based process to produce uranium oxide reference microparticles has…
JAEA-JRC Collaborative Development of Delayed Gamma-ray
Spectroscopy for Nuclear Safeguards Nuclear Material Accountancy
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.C. Rodriguez, Kamel Abbas, David Bertolotti, C. Bonaldi, M. Fujimoto, W. Geerts, M. Koizumi, M. Macias, S. Nonneman, S. Oberstedt, B. Pedersen, F. Rossi, P. Schillebeeckx, S. Suzuki, T. TAKAHASHI
Abstract:
The Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security (ISCN) of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) initiated a…
JAEA/ISCN Delayed Gamma-ray Spectroscopy Inverse Monte Carlo
Development Status
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.C. Rodriguez, F. Rossi
Abstract:
The Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security (ISCN) of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) is…