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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shin-ichi Kumakura
Abstract:The short Notice Random Inspections (SNRI) are proving to be a practical method to make betyter use of the inspection resources while…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B.A. Hunt, D. Landat
Abstract:In the safeguarding of nuclear facilities more efficient utilisation of resources has oriented research applications to make use of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert J. Estep, David K. Miko
Abstract:Monte Carlo randomization of nuclear counting data into N replicate sets is the basis of a simple and effective method for estimating error…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.J. Estep, Charles L. Hollas, Sheila Melton
Abstract:Research using the Combined Thermal/Epithermal Neutron (CTEN) instrument has been ongoing at Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):X. Rincel, Jacques Regnier, D. Lebaillif
Abstract:Recycling is the only way to reduce the plutonium stockpile and now the only available reactors for this operation are LWRs; years of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael O’Brien, Byron Gardner, Mac Forehand, David Caskey, Nikolai Bondarev, G. Tittemore, V. Maltsev, David Lambert
Abstract:The United States and the Russian Federation entered into a cooperative agreement in 1994 that resulted in a nuclear weapons non-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James D. Williams, Fred Morris, Douglas R. Manatt, David Kostorowski, Ronald B. Melton, William J. Hunteman
Abstract:Certification as it relates to the Material Protection Control & Accountability (MPC&A) program in Russia, is the process of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Baumann, N. Nicole Nelson-Jean, William J. Toth, Carrie Smarto, Katherine Garner, Michael Haase
Abstract:The U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear MAterial Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) program has been working since 1994 with 40…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alexander W. Riedy, Thomas A. Shelton, James M. Viebrock
Abstract:I early March 1998, the U.S. Government approved a plan in cooperation with the U.K. and Georgian Governments to rapidly retrieve and…
Type:JNMM
Volume:27
Issue:4
Author(s):Thomas A. Shelton, Alexander W. Riedy, Stanley D. Moses, Helen M. Bird
Abstract:In early March 1998, the United States government approved a plan in cooperation with the United Kingdom and Georgian governments to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W. Kloeckner, Peter Chare, D. Van der Eecken
Abstract:Euratom is continuously searching to improve the means to attain its safeguards objectives. This is reflected both in the initiatives and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Zane W. Bell, J.A. Williams, R.L. Clark, J.K. Mattingly
Abstract:Uranium and plutonium storage present different challenges to radiation detectors. The former does not generate significant numbers of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. G. Turner, M. T. Swinhoe
Abstract:Measurements are routinely carried out on individual spent fuel assemblies, but when they are packed for storage into large containers they…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard O. Menlove, D.H. Beddingfield, N.H. Johnson
Abstract:A new 3He neutron proportional tube design has been developed to extend the operability of 3He tubes for neutron counting in mixed neutron/…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kenneth B. Sheely, Mary Alice A. Hayward
Abstract:During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union amassed vast stockpiles of plutonium (Pu) and higly enriched uranium(HEU), the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Herve Recroix, Christian Passard, A. Lyoussi, F. Jallu
Abstract:An important program is currently in progress at several laboratories over the world for the development of sensitive, practical non-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Greg K. Becker, Michael J. Connolly
Abstract:An assessment of current nondestructive assay (NDA) technologies with respect to the capability to accommodate low-level and transuranic (…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David M. Gordon, Neil R. Zack, Marshall D. Kohen, Joseph D. Rivers
Abstract:The Nonproliferation Support Program in the DOE Office of Safeguards and Security is tasked with assisting DOE facilities with…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John L. JACKSON, Warren R. Strong
Abstract:In September 1998, SNL/NM transferred over 2.2 metric tons of non-irradiated low-enriched Uranium (LEU) reactor fuel to Framatome Cogema…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kenneth Luongo
Abstract:NCI is important because it seeks to address the central issues which underlie the nuclear proliferation dangers i Russia. These are that…