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Type:JNMM
Volume:21
Issue:2
Author(s):Lawrence A. Bruckner
Abstract:In a previous paper, factors involved in the choice of frequency of instrument measurement control checks were presented. Unfortunately,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Terry K. Taylor, James Fish
Abstract:The USAF is pursuing the automation of entry control through the implementation of the AECS program. The AECS will minimize human…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Arthur Birch, E.W.L. Seager, Greg Basillio, Natalie Barchenko
Abstract:International terrorism will require world powers to upgrade their internal security in the 1990's and into the twenty-first century in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ronald R. MacDonald
Abstract:The estimates of requirements for additional storage capacity for spent nuclear fuel from commercial LWRs in the United States are examined…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jack L. King
Abstract:The development of an expert system (NMAX) and its applications to nuclear material accountancy at the International Atomic Energy Agency…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William K. Paulus, Junko Mondragon
Abstract:The ASSESS Neutralization Analysis module (Neutralization) is part of Analytic System and Software for Evaluation of Safeguards and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles D. Harvel
Abstract:The derivation of applicable Limits of Error for Inventory Differences(LEIDs) has been a long-term challenge for some material storage…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Teresa L. Cremers, Thomas E. Sampson, Joseph C. Martz
Abstract:The Automated Retirement and Integrated Extraction System (ARIES) is a new development and demonstration glove-box line planned for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Denis Aubin
Abstract:Back in 1978, Hydro-Quebec, owner/operator of Gentilly 2, a single unit CANDU 600 MW nuclear power generating station, came to an agreement…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jack Parker, Thomas E. Sampson, Thomas A. Kelley
Abstract:For the 1992INNM meeting, we reported on the general characteristics of an automated system—then under development—for measuring both the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.C. Miller, Robert N. Ceo, W. Harker, N. Ensslin, M. S. Krick, P.A. McClay, Wendell Belew, P.K. May, R.D. McElroy
Abstract:This paper analyzes initial in-plant measurements made by active neutron multiplicity counting, a new technique currently under development…
Type:JNMM
Volume:21
Issue:2
Author(s):Leslie G. Fishbone, Theodor Teichmann
Abstract:In order to examine the effect of different inspection strategies on inspection effort, an analysis was carried out of the zone approach…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sylvester Suda, Cindy Murdock
Abstract:A standard reference does not exist for evaluating and expressing systematic and random uncertainty, thus, there is no basis for comparing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. K. Halbig, George W. Eccleston, S. F. Klosterbuer, Jo Ann Howell
Abstract:Automated analysis using pattern recognition and neural network software can help interpret data, call attention to potential anomalies,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):F. Werkoff, N. Preston
Abstract:The international safeguards applied to civilian nuclear installations include physical tests and verifications of nuclear material…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Blackledge
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories has the qualification evaluation responsibility for the design of certain components intended for use in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John Carlson, John Bardsley, John Hill
Abstract:Current proposals for strengthening and streamlining NPT safeguards include various measures to give the Agency a capability to detect the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Patrick Leahy, Timothy Draelos
Abstract:Transparent and secure process monitoring systems may become an important tool in the dismantlement schemes in support of bilateral and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Merle C. Deardorff, Robert E. Woerner
Abstract:The gain of a portable low resolution BGO detector-PMCA measurement system, used to make holdup measurements in a manufacturing plant…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jon R. Hurd, Steven M. Long
Abstract:This paper addresses a series of studies undertaken while fulfilling the measurement requirements for certification of a 55-gallon…