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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David A. Satko
Abstract:The Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other federal and state agencies are dramatically increasing their…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rolf Arlt, Ernie Card, George Healey
Abstract:An in-situ remotely controlled irradiated fuel bundle verification system has been developed for use in the irradiated fuel storage bay at…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James D. Walrod
Abstract:Two critical elements of most security systems are surveillance and intrusion alarm assessment. These elements are implemented largely with…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Belinda Garcia, R. C. Bearse, R. M. Tisinger, Paul Henslee, B. Jackson, J. Ballmann
Abstract:The Argonne Unified Safeguard (ARGUS) System (1) is currently being demonstrated as a functioning integrated materials monitoring/tracking…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. MASUI, Akira KUROSAWA, Yusuke Kuno, S. Sato, K. Abe, T. AKIYAMA
Abstract:Plutonium in a spent fuel dissolver solution of a reprocessing plant has usually been determined by isotopic dilution mass spectrometry (…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Richter, G. Stein, S. L. Schneider, R. L. Martinez, K.J. Gartner, M. Heske, P. Ammann, J. Janssens, A. Terrasi
Abstract:The VACOSS-MIVS-Interface System is a joint development undertaken by Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque and KFA Forschungszentrum…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.A. Basso, J.R. Coady
Abstract:Spent-fuel bundle counters, developed by the Canadian Safeguards Support Program (CSSP) for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),…
Type:JNMM
Volume:19
Issue:1
Author(s):N. Khlebnikov, A. FATTAH
Abstract:The practice of not reprocessing spent fuel (the "once-through" cycle) poses one of the requirements of spent fuel management. States…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Richter, G. Stein
Abstract:Spent fuel elements from nuclear power stations might be directly emplaccd in geological formations. In the Federal Republic of Germany,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dennis L. Mangan, J. Christian Kessler
Abstract:During the 1970s concern over potential sub-national threats to civil nuclear activities led the IAEA to convene several meetings of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S.-T. Hsue, O. Cromboom
Abstract:Two intrinsic densitometry techniques for determining plutonium concentrations (and isotopic distributions) that require no. external…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Patricia W. Baird, Sandra Priest
Abstract:During the summer of 1989 Charleston, South Carolina was devastated by Hurricane Hugo. On October 17, 1989 the San Francisco area was the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Victoria Longmire, J.R Hurd, Teresa L. Cremers, S.M. Long, W.A. Sedlacek, A.M. Scarborough
Abstract:Impure plutonium metal is routinely processed by molten salt extraction (MSE) to reduce the amount of americium in the metal product.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Ohtani, S. Takahashi, J. Painter, S. C. Bourrett, C. S. Johnson, M. Seya, R. L. Martinez, William R. Hale, S. Klosterbauer
Abstract:The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) has installed an Item Identification System (IIS) for their Material…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yoshinobu Seki, Tsuneo Watanabe
Abstract:Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel Co. (MNF) in Japan has operated its Tokai fuel manufacturing plant since 1972 and supplied more than 7,700 PWR fuel…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mary T. Magleby
Abstract:Under Federal law, the Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for safe disposal of Greater-Than-Class C Low-Level Waste (GTCC LLW)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William C. Bartels
Abstract:Safeguards and security initiatives and issues within the DOE program are managed, integrated and coordinated by interactions between OSS…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Billy D. Black, David G. Skogno
Abstract:Many facilities across America are concerned with the threat of airborne intruders. Many of these sites are near enough to airports to be…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Gary P. Wills
Abstract:The measurement control program includes control of the analytical procedures, analyst training and qualification, and mass and balance…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Masahiro Kikuchi, Isao Kobayashi, Yuji Sato, Y. Hisamatsu
Abstract:In a powder-type bulk material handling facility there may be unmeasured plutonium powder caused by holdup in equipment or scattering in a…