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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroyoshi Kurihara, Hiroshi Tsuboi
Abstract:Japan has been accepting the IAEA safeguards since beginning of its development on peaceful uses of nuclear energy. At the beginning Japan…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Takeshi Osabe, Katsuyoshi OKAMURA
Abstract:One of the main objectives of the safeguards inspection is to verify the material balances in the MBA. Along with the physical inventory…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.G. Langner, N. Ensslin, William C. Harker, M. S. Krick, L. A. Foster
Abstract:This paper describes a series of neutron multiplicity measurements of large plutonium samples at the Los Alamos Plutonium Facility. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Edwin S. Lyman
Abstract:The practical difficulties in achieving effective safeguards on large bulk-handling facilities are illustrated by the operating history of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sara Scott, Benny J. Martinez, Konstantin Dorofeev, Vasily V. Zhidkov, R.T. Perry
Abstract:The Russian/US Mining and Chemical Combine (Gorno-Kimichesky Kombinat, GKhK, also referred to as Krasnoyarsk-26) Material Protection,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):WILLIAM H JAMES
Abstract:The U.S. Department of Energy (HQ) commissioned Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), in 1993, to develop a prototype of a PC based client…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Nobel, K.W. Neufeld
Abstract:Instrumentation is very important for practical realization of nonproliferation and arms control international agreements. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lee Refalo, David Immel
Abstract:The approach developed for implementation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards for the Actinide Packaging and Storage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. J. Oras, R. H. Towell, Michael E. Wangler
Abstract:Both the American National Standard for Radioactive Materials - Leakage Tests on Packages for Shipment (ANSI Nl4.5) - and the ISO 12807:…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J.R. López Vietri, A.J. Bianchi, C.A. Menossi
Abstract:This paper points out the relevant regulatory issues related to the licensing process of a Type B(U) package design (hereinafter called…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John J. Robichaux
Abstract:The Local Area Network Material Accounting System (LANMAS) application is a standardized approach to comply with the DOE Order 5633.3B,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven E. Smith, R. Ceo, M. Barham, G. Sokolov, Misha Kartashov, Galina Y. Ruphina
Abstract:Quantification of the residual nuclear material remaining in process equipment has long been a challenge to those who work with nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K.L. Coop, Charles L. Hollas, Robert J. Estep, Sheila Melton, David K. Miko
Abstract:We present a model for self shielding in lumps of fissile material in active-neutron assays. The model combines the formula for self-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):T. Kitano, D. Ito, T. Matsumura
Abstract:As initial enrichment and bumup of fuel assemblies in nuclear power reactors increases, taking bumup credit is now proceeding in LWR spent…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. Murakami, Z. Starovich, N. Islam, R. Olsen, G. Zuccaro-Labellarte
Abstract:Kazakhstan is planning to condition and transfer the spent fuel into canisters from the BN-350 fast breeder reactor. These canisters will…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. Roubertie, P. Le Gousse
Abstract:Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) cylinders are used world-wide to transport natural UF6 or reprocessed UF6. To ensure fuD security of these…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):W. Lemeshewsky, C. Macaluso, P. Smith, B. Teer
Abstract:The Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) in !}le United States Department of Energy (DOE) has the responsibility under…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William D. Stanbro, William A. Averill, Stephen T. Boerigter, Thomas L. Rising, Joseph W. Jackson
Abstract:This paper provides the introduction of a new analytical environment for the analyses of complex systems. The environment has been dubbed T…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Scott McAllister, Mac Forehand, Lonnie Moore, Michael Carroll, Michael Ford, John DeMeyer
Abstract:The Urals Electrochemical Integrated Plant is one of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy‘s nuclear material production sites…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. L. Heinberg, V. N. Samoilov, B. A. Shestakov, Alexander V. Checker, Viktor M. Dobrianskii, Paula J. Cowley, James A. Stottlemyre
Abstract:The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, has designed and implemented a computerized nuclear materials accounting…