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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jerry O'Leary, Edward C. Watkins
Abstract:Many sites within the Department of Energy complex have legacy nuclear material control and accounting (MC&A) systems that are rapidly…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nancy Jo Nicholas, Obie P. Amacker, Jr., J.M. Whitaker, R. Dowe Dabbs, Amy B. Whitworth, Tom Bonner
Abstract:In February 1997, the Department of Energy (DOE) Intemational Safeguards Division sponsored an Institute of Nuclear Materials Management…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Davidson
Abstract:A single act of terrorism aimed at the nuclear industry could have disastrous effects on not only the plant or operator concerned but also…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.W. Swindle, L.J. Keith
Abstract:As a result of decisions made by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Board of Governors on Programme 93+2, the IAEA’s…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mary P. Rodriguez
Abstract:The Rocky Flats Environmental technology Site will be installing a prototype Plutonium Stabilization and Packaging System (PuSPS) during…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sara Scott, William M. Buckley, Sylvester Suda, Michael M. Curtis, Konstantin Dorofeev, Vasily V. Zhidkov, James Lee, Howard Kerr
Abstract:The cooperative RussianlUS Mining and Chemical Combine (Gomo-Khimichesky Kombinat, GKhK, also referred to as Krasnoyarsk-26) Materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert N. Ceo, K.A. Thompson, G. Kuzmycz, C. Roche, T. Ewing, C. McWilliams, A. Olson, R. Chen
Abstract:AIMAS (Automated Inventory/Material Accounting System) is a PC-based application that is being developed as part the U. S. assistance…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P.M. Rinard, M. S. Krick, T. Kelley, C.M. Schneider, P.A. McClay, R.W. Saylor
Abstract:An inventory with a large number of diverse items containing mixtures of uranium and plutonium has been measured with two nondestructive…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Abhold, Douglas Reilly, H. Menlove, Luis Rovere, E. Gryntakis, Olga Mafra Guidicini, Gevaldo Lisboa de Almeida, Richard Sieblist, Osvaldo Calzetta Larrieu
Abstract:The Fork detector has normally been used to measure gamma rays and neutrons from irradiated fuel assemblies to verify the consistency of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.E. Valentine, Jose March-Leuba, J.A. Mullens, J.K. Mattingly, J.T. Mihalczo
Abstract:This paper describes a non-intrusive measurement technique to monitor the mass flow rate of fissile material in gaseous or liquid streams.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lorilee Brownell, William Cutchins
Abstract:As the United States continues to place excess fissile materials under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, well planned…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P. Ward-Whate, David Bot
Abstract:Under IAEA Criteria, loss of surveillance of spent nuclear fuel could lead to a requirement that a significant portion of the fuel be re-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lynn Preston
Abstract:DOE-STD-3013-96, \"Criteria for Preparing and Packaging Plutonium Metals and Oxides for Long-Term Storage,\" describes requirements for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sharon M. DeLand, Donald R. Funkhouser
Abstract:The MIMS is being developed as a cost-effective means of performing safeguards in unattended remote monitoring applications. Based on…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Gerard Le Bastard, Michel Poulloux
Abstract:As we enter a new millennium, one question still lies partially unanswered. How to address two major challenges which are lasting economic…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Morten Bremer Maerli, Byron Gardner, David Lambert, Michael P. O'Brien, Nikolai Bondarev, Victor Elizarov
Abstract:Since 1994, the United States and the Russian Federation have had demonstrated success in a nuclear weapons non-proliferation program…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Wan Sou Park
Abstract:The Republic of Korea concluded an INFCIRC/153 type Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA in 1975. During 1996, the IAEA spent around 270 PDIs…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven P. Kadner, K. Ferguson, W.S. Roman, Mike Ondrik, S. Kraus, A. Nadezhdinskii
Abstract:Recent developments in digital video and digital processing of recorded images have resulted in significant changes to the overall approach…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.E. Valentine, J.A. Mullens, J.T. Mihalczo, J.E. Breeding, G.W. Turner, J.A. McEvers, M.C. Smith, Thomas Gafford
Abstract:This processor, which is the basis of the Nuclear Weapons Identification System (NWIS), is a five input channel system capable of sampling…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.E. Valentine, J.A. Mullens, J.T. Mihalczo, T. Gafford, J.E. Breeding, G.W. Turner, J.A. McEvers, M.C. Smith, D.E. McMillen
Abstract:A high-speed time event processor has been developed to obtain signatures in active neutron interrogation measurements. The processor…