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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.T. Gill, Robert E. Ellefson, V.M. Rutherford
Abstract:Aluminosilicate zeolite (molecular sieve) materials are employed widely to remove condensable gases from tritium-containing gas streams. By…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Edward V. Badolato
Abstract:Two major crises of 1986 — the Chernobyl nuclear accident and international terrorism have had the effect of making what we all do even…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S. Storch, T. Staake
Abstract:A cask has been developed and licensed for the transport and storage of spent pebble bed reactor fuel that combines both safety and economy…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):W.A. Pryor, J.L. Frazier
Abstract:The slightly enriched product UF6 shipped from the enriching plants for the world's nuclear power plants must be protected in order to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Riley D. Carver
Abstract:The AVLIS program pioneers the large scale industrial application of lasers to produce low cost enriched uranium fuel for light water…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A.L. Biaggio, J.R. López Vietri
Abstract:After a brief description of the physical and chemical properties of UF and of the products of its hydrolysis, U02F2 and HF, the problem of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):C.M. Hopper
Abstract:A recent nuclear criticality safety analysis of the Department of Transportation (DOT)Specification 6M fissile material pac!cage is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J.D. Berger, B.C. Gneiting, T. L. Sanders
Abstract:USE OF ROBOTICS FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE SHIPPING AND RECEIVING. Radioactive waste shipping and receiving facilities presently planned for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tom E. Allen
Abstract:The physical protection planner is faced with a myriad of decisions to make in developing a security system that will meet his goals. Goal…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. C. d'Agraives, E. Mascetti, G. Dal Cero, A. Volcan
Abstract:The VAK III system uses ultrasonic in situ verifiable seals aimed at the safeguarding of LWR fuel assemblies. Developed at JRC-Ispra, it…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. F. Hafer, D. Stirpe
Abstract:To determine the detection sensitivity of a materials accounting system to the loss of Special Nuclear Material (SNM) requires (1)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Patrick A. Sena
Abstract:The ground vehicle is one of the most effective tools available to an adversary force. Vehicles can be used to penetrate many types of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Rosen, R.B. Pope, H. Koponen, R. R. Rawl
Abstract:The International Atomic Energy Agency has recently issued the 1985 Edition of Safety Series No. 6. The changes made in the Regulations,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William A. Higinbotham, Leslie G. Fishbone
Abstract:At present the IAEA designs its safeguards approach with regard to each type of nuclear facility so that the safeguards activities and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E.J. Halteman
Abstract:The nature of nuclear waste makes its quantification a statistical problem. Moreover, for the detection of low levels of plutonium in waste…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Carleton D. Bingham, Warren J. McGonnagle
Abstract:The authors have undertaken an indepth comparison of mass- and gamma-ray spectrometric measurements of currently available plutonium…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. B. Perry, Walter W. Strohm, Sidney Fiarman
Abstract:The second physical inventory verification (PIV) exercise for IAEA inspectors was conducted at a U.S. MOX fabrication facility (WHC) under…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. J. Canty, Arnold Rezniczek, G. Stein, R. Gerstler, E. Muench
Abstract:Many of the problems associated with the implementation and evaluation of IAEA safeguards are of an artificial, self-imposed nature…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. G. Fleissner, C.P. Oertel
Abstract:A high count rate, high throughput gammaray system for plutonium isotopic measurements has been developed and tested in a production…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David A. Smith
Abstract:This computer program simulates a user-defined 'lighting configuration. It has been developed as a tn»o3 to aid in the design of exterior…