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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:When Kernkraftwerk Gosgen (KKG}, Switzerland, specified its needs for a dual purpose cask for spent fuel assemblies, it had to solve a…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relative severity of regulatory impacts onto an essentially rigid target to impacts at higher…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:We examined the accuracy and sensitivity levels for three variations on the TGS method: the original TGS method using a high-purity…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:One of the most difficult issues faced by negotiators of disarmament treaties is arranging for joint verification of extremely sensitive…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:In the 1980s, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiated a project to develop a safe and efficient transportation system for defense…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Laboratories whose mission focuses on the development of analytical protocols for the detection of materials considered to be signatures…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:A new approach has been devised in this work, to deal with the problem of finding puncture resistance of lead shielded shipping casks. This…
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Abstract:The IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials require the consideration of temperatures of -40 °C for Type B package…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A new neutron multiplicity counter has been designed, fabricated, characterized, and installed to assay impure plutonium metal buttons from…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Facing the difficulties met in the United States to obtain a dw-able certificate of approval for the existing overpacks, COGEMA wished to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:With the aim to transport fresh MOX fuel assemblies by air starting in 2001, COGEMA asked Transnucleaire to develop a global transportation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Constellation Technology Corporation has developed a small, self-contained gamma-ray intensity counter which is well suited for use in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:This paper reviews the cooperative work planned and accomplished by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Russia/Newly Independent States (…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:A ship-to-ship collision probability in transiting Suez Canal has been studied using the theoretical safety approach and an analytical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Nuclear waste assay is becoming one of the most important issues in the fields of safeguards and waste management and disposal. Waste drums…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:The U.S. Department ofTransportation (DOT) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission {NRC) have jointly prepared a comprehensive set of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Field experience with the tomographic gamma scanner to assay nuclear material suggests that the analysis techniques can significantly…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Low Level Waste packages are transported from each Japanese nuclear power plants to Rok:kasho-Mura by exclusive ship. These packages are…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:The radiological risks of transporting radioactive materials can be determined using probability safety assessment (PSA) techniques and has…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Luch, a MINATOM facility 35 km south of Moscow, has been engaged in both scientific research and uranium processing for 50 years. Since the…