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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Puckett, K. Ystesund, Steven P. Kadner, Elizabeth Turpen, M. White
Abstract:DOE, Aquila Technologies, LANL, and SNL recently launched collaborative efforts to create a NonProliferation Networked Safeguards…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles Nakhleh, Jane Poths, Bryan L. Fearey, William D. Stanbro, R.T. Perry, Willam B. Wilson
Abstract:The use of environmental sampling is a major component of the improvements of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards being carried…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Frank Lamb, David J. Dreher
Abstract:At Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS), a glovebox and equipment holdup measurement program called “Untoward Areas” was…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sin-Tao Hsue, Michael Collins
Abstract:A new method for analyzing absorption edges in K-Edge Densitometry (KED) spectra is introduced. This technique features a nonlinear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William J. Desmond,
Abstract:The United States (US), in general, and the Department of Energy (DOE), specifically, have years of experience in addressing and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):George Michael Fuller, Alexander Ustugov
Abstract:The paper presents the material balance flow chart for fissile nuclear materials (FNM) at the plant. The following Material Balance Areas…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jeanette S. Cockrell, David A Young
Abstract:The Nuclear Material Control and Accountability Assessment methodology must be a process that facilitates continuous improvement. This…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William J. Toth
Abstract:The Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) is located in the central region of Siberia, approximately 2000 miles East of Moscow. TPU is a large…
Type:JNMM
Volume:25
Issue:3
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, V.K. Pare, E.D. Blakeman, B. Damiano, T.E. Valentine, L.D. Phillips, R.B. Banner, D.B. Bopp, T.R. Chilcoat, J. DeClue
Abstract:Nuclear weapons identification system (NWIS) signatures have been used successfully to confirm that B33 trainer parts, shipped from…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, T.E. Valentine, J.A. Mullens, J.K. Mattingly, S.S. Hughes
Abstract:Nuclear weapons identification system (NWIS) signatures have recently been used for confirmation of nuclear weapons components in storage…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas Pollog, Scott Vance
Abstract:A spent nuclear fuel verification plan has been developed and issued by DOE=s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM).…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Carol R. Raeder
Abstract:In July 1995, the Office of Safeguards and Security (OSS) established the Fissile Material Assurance Working Group. This working group…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bruno Pellaud, Myron Kratzer, Gotthard Stein, Hiroshi Matsuoka, John Bardsley, Hiroshi Kurihara
Abstract:In their opening statements, panel members covered a number of topics related to the Strengthened Safeguards System (SSS), including…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas H. Prettyman, Phyllis Russo, M.A. Hoffbauer, P.N. Luke
Abstract:Large-volume, CdZnTe, gamma-ray spectrometers (up to 2 cm3) that operate at room temperature with excellent resolution and peak shape have…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hugh A. Benton
Abstract:The Management and Operating Contractor for the DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management is developing designs of waste packages…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James Sprinkle, T. Gafford, Boris Kuznetsov, Constantine Grabelnikov, R. Ceo, G. Tittemore, A. Atkins, M. Barham, J.A. Carter
Abstract:During the past three years the Ulba Metallurgical Company (Ulba) has been working to implement a safeguards program to meet the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.H. Beddingfield, H.O. Menlove
Abstract:We have developed a new method to measure the reactivity and fissile content of highly radioactive nuclear materials. The fissile content…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Mihalczo, John T. Mihalczo, T.E. Valentine, T.E. Valentine, J.A. Mullens, J.A. Mullens
Abstract:Previous experience with the use of Nuclear Weapons Identification System (NWIS) time and frequency signatures has shown that their large…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.R Hurd, J.R Hurd, David J. Mercer, David J. Mercer, G.W. Veazey, G.W. Veazey, T.E. Ricketts, T.E. Ricketts, R.K. Nakaoka, R.K. Nakaoka
Abstract:Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS) is currently considering the use of vitrified transuranic (TRU)-waste forms for the final…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.F. Villani, R.L. Lucero, M. Schanfein, Thomas Bonner, Dorothy Davidson, L.O. Ticknor, John T. Caldwell, M. Newell, R Maez, J. Martinez, M. Padilla, G.G. Seaman, G. Auchampaugh,
Abstract:Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Plutonium Facility is fulfilling its role of a Department of Energy (DOE) Defense Programs nuclear “…