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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Markku Koskelo, Valentin Timoshin
Abstract:The Np-237 concentration in three plutonium test solutions has been determined by gamma spectrometry with the MGA [1] program incorporated…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark M. Pickrell
Abstract:We report on the design of a uranium oxide canister counter that will be used for measurement of the uranium output stream. An initial…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. FATTAH, William M. Murphey, Bruce W. Moran
Abstract:The International Atomic Energy Agency approaches applicable to spent fuel at (IAEA) is currently pursuing development of an conditioning…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rena Whiteson, Robert H. Ryan
Abstract:The laboratory-to-laboratory programs of cooperation between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Institutes of the Russian Federation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Eugene Dykov, Matti Tarvainen
Abstract:Safeguards verification measurements are a significant part of the full scope safeguards implementation. Ukraine has acceded to the treaty…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard F. Davis, A. Alonso-Munoz, Samuel Callahan, Gregory Davis, Daniel Johnson
Abstract:TheU.S. Department of Energy’s (DOES) ongoing efforts to improve its physical and personnel security systems while reducing its costs,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.E. Valentine, J.K. Mattingly, J.T. Mihalczo
Abstract:If devel~ a nondestmctive method would be useful for veriljing canister contents without requiring the canister to be opened. This paper…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G.J. Young, B Burrows, S. Kaiser, S. Kaiser, M.P. Young
Abstract:In 1994 Sellatleld delivered its first MOX fuel from the new MOX Demonstration Facility (MDF). The much larger Sellr&eld MOX Plant (SMP…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K.L. Coop, Charles L. Hollas
Abstract:Self-shielding of interrogating thermal neutrons in “lumps” of fissile material can be a major source of error in transuranic waste assay…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hellen M. Hunt
Abstract:Peer review is an established standard for publication of scientific papers, yet peer review alone is insufficient to reasonably assure…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):N. Barrie Mcleod
Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to provide an estimate of the ALARA benefits and the reduction in numbers of shipments of spent nuclear fuel…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H. Kschwendt, Y. VOLODIN, N. REDIN
Abstract:In 1993 the Euratom Safeguards Directorate initiated a cooperation with Gosatomnadzor of Russia and with Minatom of Russia in the field of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.W. Newton, R.M. Davis, W.C. White, R.C. Cherry
Abstract:President Clinton announced in March 1995 the permanent withdrawal of 200 tons of fissile material from the United States (US) nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Michael Whitaker, Kenneth B. Sheely
Abstract:Remote monitoring provides a more timely and comprehensive way to meet national and international requirements for monitoring nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.E. Valentine, J.K. Mattingly, J.T. Mihalczo
Abstract:Any measurement capable of directly estimating the fissile material content of a nuclear assembly has obvious utility in safeguards,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. John Luke, Douglas A. Leich, David A. Knapp, Mark Rowland, Dan Klem, Ralph Royce
Abstract:The purpose of this study was to develop a new portable detector system for the measurement of uranium enrichment of Uranium Oxide and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Erja Kainulainen
Abstract:Finland has safeguards support programmed for Ukraine and for the Baltic Countries Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Bilateral projects of the…
Type:JNMM
Volume:25
Issue:1
Author(s):Jared S. Dreicer, Debra Rutherford
Abstract:The proliferation risk of a facilty depends on the material attractiveness, level of safeguards, and physical protection applied ot the…
Type:JNMM
Volume:24
Issue:4
Author(s):Myron Kratzer
Abstract:The concept of limiting the spread of fuel cycle activities of a "sensitive" nature and surrounding those that are built by some type of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Seiji Uchikoshi, Yuichi Watanabe, Yuji Matsuda, Akio Kawai, Toshiyuki Tamura, Ken-Ichi Nagayama, Hidehiko Shimizu
Abstract:A Large Scale Tank Calibration (LASTAC) facility, which has an experimental tank with the same volume and structure as the input…