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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.A. Mason
Abstract:There is a continuing requirement for high precision calorimetry measurements of large volume plutonium samples. The present paper…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Robert A. Johnson, S. A. Porter, M.L. Caviness
Abstract:Several different transportation packaging designs will be utilized for making shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lothar Koch, P. Richir, K. Mayer, H. Ottmar, Bruno Brandalise
Abstract:The analysis of nuclear material plays a key role in safeguarding these materials. The Institute for Transuranium Elements has been…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Lenail, N. Neyret
Abstract:Transport is a vital element of and for the nuclear industry. Contrasting to new multimedia technologies, it continues to use classical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hugh A. Benton, J. Wesley Davis, Thomas A. Thornton
Abstract:The M&O Contractor to the U.S. DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management is developing designs of waste packages that will…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John L. JACKSON, John L. Sichler
Abstract:Elimination of unneeded nuclear materials from inventory is the single, most effective tool a site can employ to reduce safeguards and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Ueki, N. Nariyama, A. Ohashi, S. Nagayama, T. Fujita
Abstract:As a neutron shielding material of a high-burnup spent fuel shipping cask, a kind of epoxy resin, NS-4-FR, has been employed in Japan. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jonathan Sanborn, Lisa Owens
Abstract:The United States has completed negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on its Safeguards Protocol; this U.S.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Nambu, K. Nakama
Abstract:Recycling of nuclear fuel is the basic policy of Japan. Domestic transport of nuclear materials is assigned to the exclusively dedicated…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Frank-Michael Börst, A. Rimpler, H. Scheib
Abstract:Several types of dual purpose casks for transport and interim storage of spent fuel elements (SFE) and vitrified high-active waste (HAW)…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S. Karigome, Y. Matsuura, Y. Hirata, Y. Saita, K. Hakozaki
Abstract:In the current transportation of LL W to disposal facilities in Japan, the transport container wasdesigned for the loading condition of 5…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. Fajman, L. Barták
Abstract:The state regulatory body responsible for the approvals of transport, storage and disposal packages for transporting, storing or disposing…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. Roland, A. Hanson
Abstract:The DOE's multipurpose canister (MPC) concept is a versatile concept. that has been created in order to help DOE perform its legal duty of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rena Whiteson, Robert P. Landry, Andrew Zardecki, Mike Boor, Benny J. Martinez, Linda K. Anderson, Jeanne M. Hurford
Abstract:Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed E/Z MAS, a new generation nuclear material accountability application based on the latest…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rena Whiteson, Robert P. Landry, Andrew Zardecki, Mike Boor, Benny J. Martinez, Linda K. Anderson, Jeanne M. Hurford
Abstract:Nuclear facilities that handle and process nuclear materials are required to track their nuclear holdings and to keep adequate records that…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):P. J. Nigrey, T. G. Dickens
Abstract:We have developed a Chemical Compatibility Testing Program for the evaluation of plastic…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S.T. Belyaev, S.A. Shvetsov, S.A. Perevozchlkov, B.S. Kalisnichenko, A.N. Polivanov, L.A. Makarenko, R.M. Minasyan, N. Yu. Semenkova, M.M. Kozodoevo, N. M. Kozodoeva, P. Gulko
Abstract:EKOR - a  unique radiation-resistant silicon-organic foam-type elastomer is presented as a new material for transportation, containment,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Rhodes
Abstract:Karl Compton, the American physicist who was for many years president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, liked to tell a story…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ruth Duggan, Cal Jaeger, William K. Paulus
Abstract:Engineered Surety Using the Risk Equation (EnSURE) is a new approach being developed by Sandia National Laboratories for determining and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.E. Valentine, J.T. Mihalczo, R.B. Perez, J.K. Mattingly
Abstract:Higher order statistical analyses have been developed to enhance measurements performed on subcritical fissile assemblies driven by an…