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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):O. Roussel, P. Morlier
Abstract:Wood has been used for years in the making of containers for transport of nuclear materials because of the good compromise offered by wood…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Steve Barlow, Neil A. Carr, T.N. Walker
Abstract:United Kingdom Nirex Limited (Nirex) has been established to develop and operate a deep underground repository for the disposal of the UK'…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P.M. Rinard, Neil R. Zack, Kenneth Thomas, Bruce Erkkila, Cal Jaeger
Abstract:The disposition of plutonium that is no longer required for our nation’s defense is being structured to mitigate risks associated with the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Bliss, R.A. Craig, D.S. Barnett, Richard Seymour
Abstract:Standard 3013 establishes safety criteria for storage of plutonium metals and plutonium oxides at DOE facilities. It is intended that…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. A. Koski
Abstract:The test described in this paper is intended to measure the typical accident environment for a radioactive materials package in a fire…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroki TAMAKI, T. Natsume, K. Maruoka, T. Yokoyama
Abstract:An advanced dry storage system design with highly improved storage efficiency of spent nuclear fuel has been developed. The new concept \"…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rena Whiteson, Tresa Yarbro, Karen W. Hench
Abstract:The Automated MC&A Database Assessment project is aimed at improving anomaly and error detection in materials control and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Nobel, R.L. Coldwell
Abstract:The problem of accurately detecting extremely low levels of plutonium is rapidly gaining increasing importance in applications of nuclear…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A. J. Trennel
Abstract:The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to establish a medical isotope project tlrat would ensure a reliable domestic supply of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. D. ARLT, M. Aparo
Abstract:CdZnTe and CdTe detectors are uniquely suited for in-the-field international Safeguards verification measurements of nuclear material. This…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):D.J. Ammerman, R. Geinitz, D. Thorp, M. Rivera
Abstract:There is a large backlog of plutonium contaminated materials at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site near Denver, Colorado, USA.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.H. Prettyman, W.C. Sailor
Abstract:Response functions generated using an accurate physical model of CdZnTe detectors were used to assay 239Pu and to measure 241Pu/239Pu…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stein Deron, D. L. DONOHUE, R Wellum, R.E. Perrin, P. DeBievre
Abstract:measurements required to support its program of environmental sampling for safeguards. To assure the quality of these measurements, the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Y. Ouchi, R. Yamanaka, J. Kurakami, I. Kurita, T. Ito
Abstract:Japan had aimed to develop an Advanced Thermal Demonstration Reactor (A TOR) in parallel with a Fast Breeder Prototype Reactor \" MONJU\",…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Nunome, T. Saegusa, K. Kuriyama, K. Seki
Abstract:Up to date, Natural Uranium Hexafluoride (hereinafter called as to UF6) is transported from overseas uranium conversion plants to Tokyo…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Takashi Miyazawa, S. Kido, Y. Tezuka, S. Tanaka, M. Aritomi
Abstract:Revised IAEA Regulations of the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials (IAEA, 1996) adds some new requirements for the transport of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John A. Rennie, J. Steven Hansen, T.K. Li, T. Kelley
Abstract:A novel technique, isotope dilution gamma-ray spectrometry (IDGS), has been recently developed for the simultaneous measurement of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John A. Rennie, J. Steven Hansen, T.K. Li, T. Kelley
Abstract:A novel technique, isotope dilution gamma-ray spectrometry (IDGS), has been recently developed for the simultaneous measurement of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Ohtani, Howard O. Menlove, Mark E. Abhold, Koichi Asakura
Abstract:Remote monitoring is one of the important elements to strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) safeguards system. With…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mary Lynn Garcia
Abstract:The Southwest Surety Institute was formed in June 1996 by Arizona State University (ASU), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NM…