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Type:JNMM
Volume:16
Issue:4
Author(s):K.K.S Pillay
Abstract:The residual amount(s) of fissionable materials remaining in process equipment after the runout of bulk materials processed is referred…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert F. Hartman
Abstract:The challenge of making training decisions with a high degree of confidence as to the results of those decisions face every DOD, Federal,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bill Hensley
Abstract:This paper discusses the Master Safeguards and Security Agreement (MSSA) and Protection Program Planning (PPP) orders of the Department…
Type:JNMM
Volume:17
Issue:1
Author(s):Rudolf Avenhaus, M. J. Canty, E. Leitner, R Weh, H.-J. Hein
Abstract:A characteristic of the process flow sheet of the Wackersdorf plant is the serial arrangement of (usually) three tanks for the decoupling…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Don L. Jewell
Abstract:The Department of Energy's (DOE) Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) Orders were revised during this past year. The primary…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jonathan Sanborn, W. R. Kane, B. Keisch
Abstract:DOE Order 5633.3, Control and Accountability of Nuclear Materials, includes specific perfoi— (nance requirements that a facility's…
Type:JNMM
Volume:16
Issue:4
Author(s):R.R. Picard
Abstract:The derivation of technically defensible holdup estimates is described. Considerations important in the planning of measurement campaigns…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan Sicherman
Abstract:Material accountability (MA) activities focus on providing after-the-fact indication of diversion or theft of special nuclear material (SNM…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Harold E. Burkhalter, Jay C Sessions
Abstract:The Department of Energy (DOE) has established qualification standards for protective force personnel employed at nuclear facilities [10…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Adamson, A.R. Camarata
Abstract:The SIR is a product of the internal process of planning, implementation, evaluation, feedback within the Secretariat, improvement and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William A. Higinbotham, Leslie G. Fishbone, Bernard Keisch, David M. Gordon
Abstract:We have developed a cost-benefit-risk methodology for evaluating material-accounting upgrades at key measurement points in nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. C. Seiler, A. A. Moghissi
Abstract:The selection of a particular route for the transport of hazardous materials places the population along that route at a certain level of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kenneth M. Sprouse
Abstract:Achieving uniform concentration within liquid holding tanks can often times be a difficult task for the nuclear chemical process industry…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Larry E. Fischer
Abstract:This paper describes the technical approach used in the Modal Study performed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to evaluate…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Suzanne T. Smith, Richard M. Tisinger
Abstract:Using the Los Alamos Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (LAVA) methodology, we developed a model for assessing risks associated with nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mary Lynn Garcia
Abstract:An unattended video surveillance unit, the Modular Integrated Video System (MIVS), has been developed by Sandia National Laboratories for…
Type:JNMM
Volume:17
Issue:1
Author(s):R. Haas, Y. Haurie, H.J. Metzdorf, H. Reuters
Abstract:EURATOM is developing presently a modular monitoring system in order to enhance containment and surveillance measures in nuclear plants.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroyoshi Kurihara
Abstract:The IAEA requires constant development of safeguards instruments, procedures and techniques to improve the efficiency and effectiveness…
Type:JNMM
Volume:17
Issue:1
Author(s):Barry J. Jones
Abstract:Materials Accountancy (NRTMA) is vastly superior to conventional accountancy in the following respects: • more timely detection of abrupt…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William K. Paulus
Abstract:Security forces that can neutralize an attack force are essential to effectively safeguard special nuclear material (SNM) against theft or…