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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Paul J. Persiani
Abstract:In the international non-proliferation regime of concern, the denatured uranium (i.e., low enrichments in 235U or 233U) fuel cycles should…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):P.M. Rinard, H.O. Menlove, J.K. Sprinkle, E.L. Adams
Abstract:A passive-active neutron shuffler for 55-gal. drums of waste has been characterized using more than 1500 active and 500 passive assays on…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):L.P. McRae, E.A. Kern, P.B. O'Callaghan, D. Yearsley
Abstract:Advances in computer hardware and software technology at the microcomputer level provide attractive alternatives to the current family of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):G. E. Whitesides
Abstract:The computational methods that are available to criticality safety specialists provide them with the ability to extend their knowledge…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rudolf Avenhaus, M.J. Canty
Abstract:The optimal test procedure, for the situation in which deliberate falsification of reported data cannot be excluded, is derived in the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.W. Peterson, E.J. Bentz Jr., C.B. Bentz
Abstract:In the early days of development of commercial nuclear power reactors in the U.S., the overall length and uranium loading of the fuel…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Wei-Min Chia, Song-Feng Wang
Abstract:The strategy of Taiwan Research Reactor Renewal plan is to reoove the old reactor block withOne Piece Reactor Rerooval (OPRR) method for…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K.K Lo, M.E. Gavin, J.F. Tanaka
Abstract:Ontario Hydro operates 18 heavy water moderated reactors generating 13.2 GW of electrical power. For purification of the heavy water used…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Shigebumi Aoki
Abstract:Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen! It is a great pleasure and rare proud for me to declare the lOth International Symposium on Packaging…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Kirchner
Abstract:For the countries which have chosen reprocessing, closing the fuel cycle implies in particular to take back the resulting vitrified high…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Adelia Sahyun, Gian Maria Sordi, F.L. Biazini Filho, C.R. Romero Filho
Abstract:The aim of this paper is to optimize the shielding thickness to transport fission products from IPEN to a laboratory in charge of the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. E. Glass, K. W. Gwinn
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories has an ongoing program to characterize the environments encountered during normal surface transport of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. H. Hummer, J. L. Kuklinski
Abstract:The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is in the process of bringing all of its facilities into compliance with present environmental…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A.R. York II, M.A. Kincy, J.M. Freedman, D.L. Humphreys
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories is developing packagings for the safe air transport of radioactive material (RAM). Air transport packagings…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):G. Beone, G. Forasassi, A. Mione, A. Orsini
Abstract:ENEA is the main Italian Board involved in the temporary disposal of radioactive wastes produced by its own laboratories and national…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):DeNise Anspach, Jonathan Anspach, John A. Abbott, Paul A. Wayne
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories has conducted studies which show that an automated personnel tracking and material monitoring system will…
Type:JNMM
Volume:20
Issue:4
Author(s):Howard Menlove
Abstract:Techniques have been developed to improve the accuracy and sensitivity for the nondestructive measurement ofplutonium in scrap and waste…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):John Closs
Abstract:During the early days of nuclear plant operations In the United States, Northern States Power Co. (NSP) built and operated the Pathfinder…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James Lacombe
Abstract:A study was conducted to assess the capabilities of an exterior passive infrared (PIR) intrusion detection sensor. The study involved a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kay E. Ondracek
Abstract:With dwindling security monies, change in mission, increased emphasis on safe, cost-effective practices and the advent of new regulations,…