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UPLIFTING NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS IN AFRICA – DESCRIPTION OF
PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT TO AFCONE BY THE EUROPEAN
COMMISSION, REPUBLIC OF FINLAND AND STUK.
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): O. LÅNG, Tapani P. Honkamaa, Elina Martikka, E. AGBORAW, Van ZYL DE VILLIERS
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The African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (African NWFZ) Treaty (the Pelindaba Treaty) was opened for signature in Cairo, Egypt, on 11 April…
Use of Risk Insights in Support of Security and Safeguards Operation and Design
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Ricky Summitt
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The use of Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) to risk-inform existing nuclear power plant (NPP) licensing bases has been proven…
USE OF SATELLITE IMAGERY IN SUPPORT OF ON-SITE INSPECTIONS:
LESSONS FROM A FIELD EXERCISE
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Jaewoo Shin, Veronika Bedenko, Pavel Podvig
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In March 2023, the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) conducted a field experiment, simulating an on-site inspection…
Using an NMAC System Enhanced for Nuclear Security
to Mitigate the Insider Threat
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Martha Williams, Noah Pope, Lia Brodnax
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Nuclear security systems are designed to protect against theft or other unauthorized removal of nuclear material from nuclear facilities.…
Using Fully Automated Combat Simulation
to Support Security by Design
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Author(s): Dan McCorquodale, Matthew Talbot
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Modeling and simulation tools are used extensively to support design and operational decisions at nuclear facilities across many domains.…
Using gamma-ray microcalorimeters to lower uncertainty in non-destructive analysis
measurements through improvement of nuclear reference data
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): A. Wessels, D.T. Becker, D. A. Bennett, M.H. Carpenter, M. Croce, J.W. Fowler, J.D. Gard, J. Imrek, K.E. Koehler, J.A.B. Mates, D.J. Mercer, N.J. Ortiz, C.D. Reintsema, D.R. Schmidt, K.A. Schreiber, D.S. Swetz, J.N. Ullom, L.R. Vale, D. T. Vo
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Increased accuracy in nuclear non-destructive analysis measurements will improve safeguarding of nuclear facilities. Superconducting…
Using INPRO Methodology for a Sustainability Assessment of
Advanced and Innovative Small Modular Reactors
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Rauf Bikmurzin, Carolynn Scherer, Brian Boyer
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Deploying small modular reactors (SMRs) is a highly promising concept with the possibility of reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as…
Using machine learning for the detection of missing fuel pins in spent nuclear
fuel assemblies based on measurements of the gradient of the neutron flux
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Moad Aldbissi, Paolo Vinai, Ricardo Rossa, Alessandro Borella, Imre Pazsit
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One of the main tasks in nuclear safeguards is the inspection of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) assemblies to detect possible diversions of…
Utilizing digital twins for nuclear safeguards and security
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Ryan Stewart, Ashley Shields, Samuel Bays, Christopher Ritter, Gustavo Reyes, Mark Schanfein
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Near-term nuclear industry innovations in reactor design and construction create new challenges in applying nuclear safeguards and…
Utilizing Multi-modal Synchrotron Methods for Nuclear Forensic
Applications
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Simerjeet K. Gill, Mehmet Topsakal, Ericmoore Jossou, David Brown, Spencer M. Scott, Matthew Wellons
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Constraining the origin and intended use of nuclear materials by rapid, high-sensitivity and highthroughput chemical and structural…
Validation of detection efficiencies of NaI(Tl) scintillation detector in the
energy range of 80–1332 keV
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Author(s): S. Bhattacharya, Archana Yadav, Arpita Datta, Sudatta Ray, Unnati Gupta, Alpana Goel, A.K. Jain
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Amity Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (AINST), Amity University Uttar Pradesh (AUUP) in technical collaboration with the…
Validation of Iron and Coulometry Systems at LANL’s RLUOB Facility
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Lisa Colletti, E. Miller Wylie, Marki Martinez, Journey Nolan, Erin Sintay, Elmer J. Lujan
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In August of 2020, C-AAC successfully installed equipment at Los Alamos’s Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building (RLUOB) to…
Verification Regimes: Challenges of Knowing and Deciding within Knowledge
Infrastructures
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Linda Ostermann, Julian Johannes Schäfer, Malte Göttsche, Stefan Böschen
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Knowledge is an integral part of verification regimes. Knowledge cannot be seen as pure factual truth that arises directly from data, but…
Verifying the Absence of Nuclear Weapons – Results of a Field
Exercise
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Pavel Podvig
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One of the first steps toward nuclear disarmament will include separation of nuclear weapons from their delivery systems. In this…
VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF A PHYSICAL PROTECTION SYSTEM
DESIGN USING A MULTI PATH ANALYSIS AND MOVING CRITICAL DETECTION
POINTS
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Melih Ozkutuk, Sunil Chirayath
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The probability of interruption (PI) offered by physical protection systems (PPS) at nuclear facilities against an adversary attacking the…
Vulnerable Position Identification
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Author(s): Patrick Lynch
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In 2020, a multi-discipline team sponsored by the U. S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Office…
WEB-GRAPE INTERNET BASED SERVICE AS AN INTERACTIVE TOOL THAT ALLOWS FOR POST-PROCESSING AND VISUALISATION OF ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT MODELLING SIMULATIONS: CURRENT STATUS AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): Jolanta Kusmierczyk-Michulec, Wolfgang Sommerer, Megan Slinkard
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The Atmospheric Transport Modelling (ATM) operational system deployed and used at the CTBTO produces source receptor sensitivity (SRS)…
‘Enhancing Capabilities for Nuclear Verification — Resource Mobilization Priorities for the IAEA Department of Safeguards’
Type: Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Author(s): David Peranteau, Jenni Rissanen, Carrie Matthews, Jo Dee Martinez, Damian Meckbach, Elizaveta Akifyeva
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The Department of Safeguards is responsible for delivering the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) nuclear verification mission,…
49-4 - Book Review - Restricted Data
Type: JNMM
Volume: 49
Issue: 4
Author(s): Mark L. Maiello
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49-4 - Book Review - Restricted Data
A deep learning approach for safeguards-relevant change detection using Sentinel-2 imagery
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Author(s): Lisa Beumer, Irmgard Niemeyer
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Satellite imagery represents a key source of information for the implementation and verification of nuclear non-proliferation, arms control…