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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A key issue in designing and evaluating nuclear safeguards systems is how to validate safeguards effectiveness against a spectrum of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the physical protection research and development lead laboratory for the U.S.…
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Abstract:Determination of the detection sensitivity of a materials accounting system to the loss of special nuclear material (SNM) requires (1)…
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Abstract:Error propagation/variance calculations are used for establishing alarm limits for materials balance closures. Variance calculations may…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A Safeguards Control and Communication System (SCCS) has been developed for a facility based on existing modular SCCS software for another…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:This paper describes the vital area determination programs being conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to support the Nuclear…
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Abstract:The Security Manager charged with the responsibility of designing Safeguards and Security Systems at Department of Energy facilities must…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories has developed a remote sensor package that provides a low-cost, convenient way of monitoring item movement.…
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Abstract:The Department of Energy (DOE) Standards and Criteria (S&C) provide the framework upon which Office of Security Evaluations (OSE)…
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Abstract:Safeguards had its beginning in the early 1940s and has continued to grow through the stormy years in dealing with nuclear materials. MC…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:'SAFPAK' AND 'SAFKEG' PACKAGES - A NEW RANGE OF HIGH INTEGRITY PACKAGES FOR Pu AND U IN SOLID OR LIQUID FORM. The paper outlines the need…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The Los Alamos Plutonium Facility contains more than sixty unit processes and handles a large variety of nuclear materials, including many…
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Abstract:There is an increasing demand for effective methods of nuclear materials accountancy. In order to keep accounts for any material balance…
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Abstract:For the independent verification of UF6 cylinder masses by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at uranium enrichment facilities,…
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Abstract:We have adapted the Los Alamos MASS1 account ing system for use on an IBM PC/AT t at the Fuels Manufacturing Facility (FMF) at Argonne…
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Abstract:A sound measurement control (MC) program should be an Integral part of every nondestructive assay measurement system used for the assay of…
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Abstract:Safeguards for LWRs are based on annual inventory verifications, supplemented by surveillance cameras to verify that there have been no…
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Abstract:In reprocessing plants leached hulls and dissolver sluges represent rather important intermediate level a-waste streams. Control of the…
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Abstract:The Westinghouse Hanford Company (WHC) has recently completed construction of the Fuel Cycle Plant (FCP) at Richland, Washington. At start-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Shipments of spent fuel to the Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) facility may be minimized by developing a new generation of truck and…