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Intra-site Secure Transport Vehicle
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven H. Scott, Marvin Plugge
Abstract:During the 1980's many facilities involved in handling nuclear material realized a need to enhance safety and security for movement of…
INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF DUCTILE CAST IRON AND CAST STEEL FOR TRANSPORT CONTAINERS WITH PLASTIC FLOW SHOCK ABSORBERS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.J.S. Smith, I L S Gray, R W T Sievwright, J C Miles, B Egid, P. Donelan
Abstract:UK Nirex Ltd is responsible for the development of facilities for the disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive waste in the…
Investigation of the Applicability of Safeguards Technologies to Evolving Arms Control and Nonproliferation Scenarios
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.G. Langner, H.O. Menlove, N. Ensslin, H.A. Smith, M. S. Krick, G.E. Bosler., K.E. Apt
Abstract:PAPER NOT AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT: hstablished nuclear safeguards technologies can play an important role in arms control and non-proliferation…
Is Ductile Cast Iron Ductile at -40C ?
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Urabe, K. Furuta
Abstract:Casks for transportation and storage of spent nuclear fuels, fabricated from ductile cast iron (DCI) have now attracted strong interest in…
Item Monitoring at Nuclear Fuel Services
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Terry W. Lewis
Abstract:Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS) of Erwin, Tennessee is the developer of innovative loss detection techniques for Strategic Special…
Japanese Version Transport/Storage Packaging \"TN24\"
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Kakunai, T. Iida, K. Tsuda, H. Akamatsu
Abstract:Since 1983, Kobe Steel has been engaged jointly with the French company Transnucleaire in the development of \"TN24\", a dry-type transport…
JRC Technical Support Programme to EURATOM Safeguards
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Cuypers, D. Landat, W. Kloeckner, D. Van der Eecken, R. Schenkel
Abstract:The Joint Research Center of the Commision of the European Communities is providing a technical support to the EURATOM Safeguards…
Line Security Upgrade Considerations: Alarm Communications
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Calvin D. Jaeger, Alan Y. Liang
Abstract:An alarm multiplexer communication system provides the integral functions for indoor or outdoor intrusion detection and reporting. Such a…
lnspection of Packages and Loading before Transport of Nuclear Fuel Materials
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S. Kobayashi, K. Igarashi, M. Kinoshita, M. Hirata
Abstract:In Japan the domestic transpOrtation of nuclear fuels. such as uranium fluoride. uranium oxide, fuel assembly and spent fuel. shows steady…
Long-term Sealability of Spent Fuel Casks
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):O. Kato, A. Kosaki, C. Ito, S. Ozaki, S. Iitsuka
Abstract:In Japan, fuel reprocessing is recognized as one of the policies of the nuclear fuel cycle. But, in the future, the discharge of spent fuel…
LOW-LEVEL RADWASTE TRANSPORTATION IN TAIWAN
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. F. Lo, C. C. Huang
Abstract:Currently there are three nuclear power plants in operation in Taiwan, including six nuclear power units; the total power output amounts to…
MACH A COmputer Tool to Assess a Protection System
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.P. Gayral, M. Gluais, M. Bena
Abstract:The Direction of Military Applications of the French COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE has undertaken the \"MACH Program\" in order to…
Maintaining Countinuity of Knowledge on Safeguards Samples
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.B.M.N. Islam, Mark Baumann, F. Franssen, J. L. Schoeneman, C.S. Sonnier
Abstract:The conclusions of the vulnerability test on VOPAN [1] (Verification of Operator's Analysis) as conducted at Safeguards Analytical…
Matrix and Position Correction of Shuffler Assays by Application of the Alternating Conditional Expectation Algorithm to Shuffler Data
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P.M. Rinard, Mark M. Pickrell
Abstract:The 252Cf shuffler assays fissile uranium and plutonium using active neutron interrogation and then counting the induced delayed neutrons.1…
Measurement of Temperature of 48Y-cylinder Exposed to Sun
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Tsukiyama, K. Sato, N. Watabe, S. Ozaki
Abstract:According to the IAEA' 85 regulation para .543, when the temperature of a Type B package is evaluated under normal conditions of transport…
Measurement of the Assay Precision of the Active Neutron Multiplicity Technique
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M.C. Miller, D.G. Langner, N. Ensslin, M. S. Krick, D.W. Miller
Abstract:This paper describes a measurement of the precision of the new active-neutron-multiplicity assay technique, which is currently under…
Measurement of Trace Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239, 240 in Waste Tank Material at the Savannah River Site
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sherrod. L. Maxwell III, Roger N. Mahannah
Abstract:At the Savannah River Site (SRS), large quantities of radioactive liquid waste are evaporated to reduce volume before eventual processing…
Measurement of Uranium Concentration Utilizing Rosemount Pressure Transmitters
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Brian L. Faidley, Nancy C. Kenner
Abstract:A system for measuring uranium concentration has been developed utilizing Rosemount pressure transmitters. The system originated with the…
Measurement Techniques For Verifying Burnup
Type:JNMM
Volume:20
Issue:3
Author(s):Ronald I. Ewing, Sidney R. Bierman
Abstract:Measurements of the nuclear radiation from spent reactor fuel are being considered to qualify assemblies for loading into casks that will…
Measurement Technology At Selected DOE Facilities: A Status Report
Type:JNMM
Volume:20
Issue:4
Author(s):Wanda G. Mitchell
Abstract:There are to be target values established for Department of Energy (DOE) facilities which perform accountability measurements for nuclear…