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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. Kurakami, I. Kurita
Abstract:Japan gives a good deal of encouragement to development of an advanced thermal reactor (ATR) to secure long-term energy source. And,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steve Kadner
Abstract:Video based safeguards equipment such as the Modular Integrated Video System (MIVS)1 are dependent on mains power with only short,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):T. Nagashima, M. Wataru, Hidetsugu Yamakawa, K. Nakajima
Abstract:There are various structures of packagings for radioactive-materials according to the quantity and nature of the radioactive-material…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Tsuda, F. Matsuda, Hiroaki Taniuchi, T. Yuhara, T. Iida
Abstract:A wide range of materials, including polymers and hydrogen-occluded alloys that might be usable as the neutron shielding material were…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Masavula Kuribara, K. Nemoto
Abstract:Cerenkov glow image observation from boiling-water reactor(BWR) and pressurized-water reactor (FWR) irradiated fuel assemblies is used for…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. Lambert, C. W. Pennington, G. V. Guerra
Abstract:Since the passage of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), nuclear utilities have recognized that spent fuel storage was to be a growing…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Yamada, T. Sagawa, T. Sakurai, S. Karigome, T. Noura
Abstract:Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) performs studies using TRU materials which are transported from United States and other…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph D. Rivers
Abstract:The Department of Energy (DOE) requires that its facilities conduct performance tests to demonstrate that important safeguards and security…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Tetsuya Nakao, Goro Minakami, Hiroaki Taniuchi, Kyosuke Fujisawa, Yukio Matsukawa, S. Mimura
Abstract:Spent fuels have had to be transported from nuclear reactor to reprocessing factory. As it is increasingly the high-bum-up type of spent…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark W. Noakes, Bradley Richardson, Barry Burks, Gerald R. Sandness
Abstract:Detection, characterization, and excavation of buried objects and materials are important steps in the restoration of subsurface disposal…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Shirai, C. Ito, H. Ryu
Abstract:Since a cask is vertically oriented during loading in cask-storage, it is necessary to investigate the integrity of the cask against tip-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):O. Tsumura, S. Shimizu, M. Murata, Y. Tanaka, M. Maruoka, I. Sato, K. Suzuki
Abstract:The DCI to be used in manufacturing spent fuel transport and storage casks will be extremely thick (500mm). As a part of the study program…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jesse Bozone
Abstract:The recent introduction of computer assisted surveillance equipment, the associated use of fiber optics in containment seals, and the need…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Gowing, Ian J Hunter, Anthony R Cory, M. Ohashi
Abstract:The development and design by Nuclear Transport Limited (NTL) of the BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels plc) Vitrified Residue Flask for returning…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. M. Grenier, R. J. Meyer, Walter J. Mings
Abstract:GA is nearing the completion of the final design of two legal weight truck spent fuel shipping casks, the GA-4 Cask for PWR fuel and the GA…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.N. Cooley, J. Michael Whitaker, W. L. Belew, A. Teufner
Abstract:A training video has been produced to address the activities performed by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to verify…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. Diersch, Robert Gartz, Konrad Gluschke, D. Methling
Abstract:GNB is introducing two representatives of the new CASTOR cask generation based on the proved, tested and already licensed CASTOR base…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.H. Watmough, A.J. Cooper, R.W. Croxford
Abstract:British Nuclear Fuels plc has for some years been engaged in the transportation of irradiated nuclear fuel from LWR sites in Japan and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles S. Johnson, William R. Hale
Abstract:PAPER NOT AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT: The benefits to processing video images in a digital format for surveillance applications can only be…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Neil R. Zack, William D. Stanbro, Ron L. Hawkins
Abstract:Diversion path analysis (DPA) is a technique that evaluates the safeguards measures currently in place at a facility and determines whether…