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