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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Bot, Bernd Richter, Reinhard Messner
Abstract:An integrated safeguards system with multi-camera and multi-detector support is being developed by the Canadian Safeguards Support Program…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. E. Glass, T. L. Towne
Abstract:Sandia was presented with an opportunity in 1993 to design containers for the long term storageandtransportoffissilematerial.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E. Kuhn, Jill Cooley, M. Ryjinski
Abstract:Currently, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has over two and a half years of implementation experience with environmental…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven P. Kadner, Mike Ondrik, W. Doyle, E. Kehl
Abstract:The implementation of new safeguards methodologies in the former Soviet republics creates a need for an equipment management system. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeffrey C. Gross, Keith M. Wines
Abstract:As environmental concerns over radioactive waste disposal continue to rise, the importance of Californium shufflers as a versatile waste…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.W. Swindle, L.J. Keith
Abstract:A keystone in the IAEA environmental sampling program has been the establishment and operation of a Class 100 clean laboratory for the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Albert M. Liebetrau, David W. Engel
Abstract:Tanks in nuclear facilities are typically equipped with bubbler probe systems to measure liquid content. When gas is forced through the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. T. Vo
Abstract:Safeguards applications require the best spectrometer systems with excellent resolution, stability, and throughput. Instruments must…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Y.Y. Liu, R. D. Carlson, S. J. Primeau, Michael E. Wangler
Abstract:A method has been developed for evaluating ganuna radiation shielding of shipping casks that are used to transport nuclear waste with ill-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.Michael White, M. Ondrik, S. Kadner, V. Thompson, S. Pepper
Abstract:As the environment for conducting Safeguards grows increasingly hostile in some areas, the need to utilize reliable and secure…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. K. Halbig, K. D. Ianakiev, P. Staples, J. Audia, Y. Bai
Abstract:We have evaluated and compared some of the relevant operating characteristics of NaI and plastic scintillators for use in various…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):C.F. Tso, B. Droste, Viktor Ballheimer, Peter Zeisler, P. Donelan, R. Hüggenberg
Abstract:The paper presents results of the Phase 1 investigations of the joint German-UK research project \"Evaluation of Safety of Casks Impacting…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Akamatsu, Hiroaki Taniuchi, T. Fujimoto, M. Ouchi
Abstract:IAEA transport regulations require the 9m drop test for type B packages. This drop test is required to confll1ll the integrity at impact in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):D Raffestin, R. Gelder, J. S. Hughes, F. Lange, F. Rancillac, François Armingaud, T Schneider, G. Schwarz, K. B. Shaw
Abstract:According to the IAEA transport regulations, all packages with a transport index exceeding I (and less than 10) or with a surface dose rate…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):F. Lange, H-J. Fett, E. Hörmann, Marina Röwekamp, R. Cheshire, B. Elston, G. Slawson, D Raffestin, T Schneider
Abstract:The return of vitrified high level waste arising from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel at Sellafield to continental Europe, e.g.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Douglas Reilly, Gevaldo Almeida, Fabio C. Dias, Richard Siebelist, Eduardo B. Melo
Abstract:An evaluation was made of the NDA uranium enrichment measurements performed by the inspectors during the 2nd Workshop for the Training of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Y. Momma, Mitsuo Matsumoto, M. Takani, S. Shirai, O. Umegaki, Y. Irisa, K. Maruoka, K. Sakai, H. Nishioka, O. Kadota
Abstract:Epoxy-resin based neutron shielding material, NS-4-FR, is used for spent fuel transport and/or storage cask. In this paper the outline of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroaki Taniuchi, F. Matsuda
Abstract:Both of dose rate measurements of TN 12/2 package and calculations by Monte Carlo code MORSE in SCALE code system and MCNP were performed…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Marie-Edith Robin, G. Gaillard, C. Aubin
Abstract:Framatome, the foremost world.nuclear fuel manufacturer, has for 25 years been delivering fuel elements from its three (3) factories (…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.D. McElroy, M.F. Villani, D. Davidson, B. Gillespie
Abstract:Canberra Industries participated in the EM30 sponsored Mixed Waste Focus Area (MWFA) NDA System Capability Evaluation Project in late 1997…