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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David L. Heath, R. Dee Sherrill
Abstract:The Deactivation and Decommissioning(D&D) mission at RFETS presents unique Material Control and Accountability (MC&A)challanges.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Eric Gosset, J.C. Drevillon
Abstract:France, as a State Party to the INFIRC/274 convention, has embodied measures in its national regulations in order to reflect toe…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.J. Hicks, Alain Bouchard, Ann M. Bouchard
Abstract:CPA--Cost and Performance Analysis--is an architecture that supports analysis of physical protection systems and upgrade options. ASSESS (…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph V. Cordaro, Michael K. Holland
Abstract:The Savannah River Site has the analytical measurement capability to perform high-precision plutoni- um concentration measurements by…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. Landat, B. Hunt
Abstract:PIMM is a Pressure Instrument Measurement Module. This prototype instrument results from the continued R&D carried out in our…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. J. Decman, S.J. Luke, Joseph Glaser, J. Hernandez
Abstract:In October 1996, the Department of Energy (DOE) and MINATOM agreed to use portable non-destructive assay (NDA) equipment to measure the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):N. Whiting, Willi Theis
Abstract:The International Atomic Energy Agency's Department of Safeguards, with support from US National Laboratories and Portsmouth Gaseous…
Type:JNMM
Volume:27
Issue:2
Author(s):Q.S. (Bob) Truong Q.S. (Bob) Truong, Richard Keeffe, Phillip Baines, Jean-Pierre Paquette
Abstract:This paper describes an investigation of the potential use of commercial satellite imagery in the International Atomic Energy Agency's…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Q.S. (Bob) Truong, Phillip Baines, R. Keefe
Abstract:This paper provides an update of our on-going investigation of the potential use of commercial satellit imagery in the International Atomic…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James R. Wilson
Abstract:During the probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) for the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear waste repository, a problem came up that could not…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James R. Wilson
Abstract:This paper summarizes a climate-prediction model funded by the DOE for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Several articles in the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ronald Augustson, V. I. Yuferev, S. S. Zhikharev, P. Singh, Don Wentz, G. Skripka, N. Mikijchuk, G. Lomtev, I. Zhukov, Michael M. Curtis, Brian Scott, T. P. Malone, Joel C. Lewis, Y. Yakimov, N. Obolochkov, G. Komarov, V. Punin, E. Chapman, M. Windham, Y. Dyomin
Abstract:As part of the Department of Energy-Russian program for strengthening nuclear material protection, control, and accounting (MPCXA), it was…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hideo Nishimura, S. Usuda, K. Watanabe, M. Magara, Y. Hanzawa, K. Yasuda, M. Takahashi, K. Gunji
Abstract:In order to establish environmental sample analysis techniques for the strengthened safeguards in Japan, the authors have commenced to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John A. Blasy, Kenneth E. Apt, Dimitry Bukin, Vitaliy Zuev, Alevtin M. Karpov, Gennady Tsygankov, Bill Labiak, David Curtis
Abstract:This paper describes that portion of the Nuclear Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A) program that is directed…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Olson, Jeff Bedell, Zander Hollander, Richard Goorevich
Abstract:This paper reviews the emergence of particle accelerator technology as a potential nuclear weapons proliferation concern, describes how…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nancy Jo Nicholas, John Puckett, Thomas L. Williams, Diana G. Langner, Thomas E. Shea, Douglas Smathers, Jean Aragon, Jack C. Bartberger
Abstract:In the decommissioning of the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS), excess fissile material will be packaged and shipped to K-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William C. Potter
Abstract:I feel very nervous as I find myself in agreement with most of the priorities outlined by Ken Sheely and other members of the MPC&A…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):L. Pillette-Cousin
Abstract:In addition its comprehensive nuclear industry, France also has to deal with hundreds of holders of nuclear materials in the industrial,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Barham, Charles Sanders, Thomas A. Gafford
Abstract:Using the adage that \"hindsight is 20/20\" it might be profitable to stop and review Material Control and Accounting (MC&A) activities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.J Traina, P.B. Mason, Steven Goldberg
Abstract:Thermal ionization and electron-impact gas mass spectrometry are primary methods of measurement for the determination of isotopic…