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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Victoria I. Kurtz
Abstract:The purpose of the Visual Artificially Intelligent Surveillance (VAIS) System is to test the feasibility of using image processing…
Type:JNMM
Volume:18
Issue:2
Author(s):Kenji Seyama, Hiromasa Nakano, Mitsuaki Kajiyoshi
Abstract:Japan became affiliated with the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material on November 27,1988. Prior to that time and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.L. Smith
Abstract:Viable methods for packaging greater-than-class C (GTCC) low-level wastes and for transporting those wastes from the waste generator sites…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Neil R. Zack
Abstract:This paper discusses a safeguards system that could be employed for a hypothetical nuclear material processing or production facility. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jonathon E. Nyquist, Micheal S. Blair
Abstract:Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed an Ultrasonic Ranging and Data System (USRADS) to track a radiation surveyor in the 1'ield, to…
Type:JNMM
Volume:18
Issue:3
Author(s):S.B. Degweker, M. Srinivasan, C.G Panchal
Abstract:The well known High Level Neutron Coincidence Counting technique for the non-destructive determination of plutonium in sealed packages…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Frank J. Conrad, B.T. Kenna, D.W. Hannum
Abstract:There have been tremendous developments in the field of explosives vapor detection within the last few years. The instruments that were…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Lamont, R.S. Strait, R. Saleh
Abstract:When special nuclear material (SNM) inventory differences or other safeguards anomalies occur, nuclear materials managers are responsible…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Douglas Fisher
Abstract:Various Department of Energy Orders and Directives require that the development and operation of nuclear material accounting systems be…
Type:JNMM
Volume:18
Issue:3
Author(s):M. Lehr, C.J. Ealing, B.K. Agarwal
Abstract:In March of 1988 NRC gave Topical Report approval for the first dry vault storage system to be submitted for nonsite specific design…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):F.J. Schultz, M.A. Smith, D.C. Hensley
Abstract:Waste characterization is the process whereby physical properties and chemical composition of waste are determined. Waste characterization…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Eccleston, J.R. Phillips, Jack T. Markin, Glenn Hammond, M.P. Baker, W.R. Hansen, Leonard M. Brenner
Abstract:During the last two decades, the Department of Energy's Office of Safeguards and Security (DOE/OSS) has supported the research and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John T. Caldwell, J. Michael Bieri, R.D. Hastings
Abstract:Recently the Department of Energy and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have emphasized the transfer of state-of-the-art non destructive…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dennis L. Mangan, D. Drayer, F.J. Walford, C.S. Sonnier
Abstract:1.1 In this paper we identify the procedural requirements which would have to be met in order that facility operators could complete sore…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael F. Heaney
Abstract:Never in its history has the United States been embroidered in as many diverse bilateral and multilateral arms control negotiations as are…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.A. AI-Ayat, T. D. Cousins, E.R. Hoover
Abstract:The Analytic System and Software for Evaluating Safeguards and Security (ASSESS) has been released for use by DOE Field Offices and their…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. G. R. Smith, P. Chare, R. Schenkel, H.G. Wagner
Abstract:The Euratom Safeguards Directorate has over the past five years evaluated, field-tested, purchased, calibrated and implemented in routine…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):K. Ystesund, K. Young, J. Janov, E. Yellin, A. Perlinski, D.E. Rundquist, T. Mukaiyama, M. Gaillour
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute have designed an…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W.W. Rodenburg, S.J. James
Abstract:The Automated Calorimeter Testing System (ACTS) is a portable measurement device that provides an independent measurement of all critical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John P. Clark, Sherrod. L. Maxwell III
Abstract:Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry (IDMS) is a method frequently employed to measure dissolved, irradiated nuclear materials. A known…