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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephanie A. Jones, Randy F. Lucero
Abstract:A boxed waste assay system, developed by BNFL Instruments Inc. (BII), was installed at the Waste Receiving and Packaging (WRAP) facility in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hugh A. Benton, V. Pasupathi
Abstract:Over the repository lifetime, the high level waste packages will perform various functions that will change with time. During the 100-year…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. R. Hatcher, Sara Scott, Bruce Erkkila
Abstract:Upgrades to both physical protection and material controls and accountability (MC&A) are progressing at many nuclear facilities in the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hyun-Tae Kim, Hyun-Tae Kim
Abstract:When a sample is taken without replacement from a finite population which is suspected to have defects, the probability that sample will…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Stephen Ortiz, Gerald L. Harbour
Abstract:This paper presents the concept of a comprehensive nuclear material management and control system. A comprehensive nuclear material…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Guye Strobel, Bill Maurer
Abstract:Experience using a computerised information assessment tool for international safeguards information data at the International Atomic…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Masahiro Kikuchi, Shojchiro Masuda
Abstract:A large scale reprocessing facility such as the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant(RRP) should introduce the Near Real Time Material Accountancy(…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.C. Miller, T.H. Prettyman, David J. Mercer, N. Ensslin, D.R. Mayo, P.A. Russo, M. S. Krick, R. C. Byrd
Abstract:A system for detecting neutrons composed of an array of boron-loaded plastic scintillators optically coupled to bismuth germanate inorganic…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas H. Prettyman, Donald A. Close, Phyllis Russo, R. Cole, A.P. Meier, H.Y. Huang
Abstract:Gamma-ray spectroscopy for portable and unattended assay of nuclear materials requires rugged, reliable, room-temperature detectors that…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Gromoll
Abstract:Today, no arms control agreement requires nuclear warheads to be eliminated. Existing agreements provide for the reduction of deployed…
Type:JNMM
Volume:25
Issue:4
Author(s):Stephen J. Scothern, John Howell
Abstract:A prototype model-based diagnostic aid has been developed to help with the safeguarding of nuclear material in liquor storage facilities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E.R Johnson, P.M. Saverot
Abstract:The storage of plutonium from dismantled weapons will be required by both the U.S. and Russia until such time as a final disposition…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E.R Johnson
Abstract:U.S. policy on reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and recovery and recycle of the contained plutonium has been based on the belief that…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Krick, S.C Bourret, A. Romero
Abstract:A multi-function electronic pulser has been implemented as a nuclear instrument module for the checkout and debugging of neutron…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark M. Pickrell, Thomas H. Prettyman, Tracy R. Wenz, Phillip M. Rinard, T.L. Burr
Abstract:Along with the new term \"data fusion\" have come several new or revived data analysis methods. Applications of data fusion include…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B.A. Hunt, G. Coldwell, D. Landat, H. Yanagisawa
Abstract:The mass/volume laboratory at the JRC, Ispra Establishment is a unique large full scale facility incorporating a variety of tanks of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. Schwalbach, W. Kloeckner, M. T. Swinhoe
Abstract:Euratom has obtained an extensive experience of installed instrumentation in a variety of nuclear facilities within the 15 member states of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. A. Mason, W. Hage, J. G. Fleissner, B. Pedersen
Abstract:Neutron Multiplicity Counting (Neutron Triple Correlation Analysis) is increasingly employed in the measurement of plutonium containing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V. Bolgarin, A.G. Bushmakin
Abstract:Slightly over one year ago, a hesitant journey began by Nuclear Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) specialists from…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K.R. Whitehouse, Peter A Clark, Nolan H. Merrill
Abstract:The last two decades have witnessed a remarkable transition in the nuclear industry in terms of the quality and safety of its operations…