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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lawrence H. Harmon
Abstract:The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), now under development near Carlsbad, New Mexico, will provide a research and development facility…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B. Gessiness, G.K. Porter
Abstract:The successful conclusion of the Error Propagation Exercise, started 2 years ago at NLO, Inc.'s Feed Materials Production Center, Fernald,…
Type:JNMM
Volume:13
Issue:2
Author(s):Jonathan Sanborn
Abstract:In a measurement control situation where periodic measurements of known quantities (standards) are interspersed among production…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Franklin
Abstract:This paper presents new statistical results for the finite population sampling distribution of the D statistic. These results are of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert A. Williams
Abstract:Accounting for special nuclear material contained in fabricated nuclear fuel rod items has been completely automated at the Westinghouse…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dennis L. Mangan, R.M. Curlee
Abstract:With the advent of system concepts to protect against sabotage by an insider, the capability to reliably provide, in a tampersafe way,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W.T. Mee, S.W.Y Combs
Abstract:The nuclear materials control and accountability program in the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant has been placed on a computerized system identified as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Violet M. Hunt, Barbara Greer
Abstract:This paper describes both the general methodology used to study the current needs for a measurement control and evaluation system at Rocky…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Sanatani
Abstract:A co-ordinated research programme on the Application of Isotopic Correlation Techniques (ICT) to International Safeguards has just ended in…
Type:JNMM
Volume:11
Issue:4
Author(s):D. Sellinschegg
Abstract:The CUMUFR (cumulative sum of standardized MUFresiduals) statistic is proposed to examine materials balance data for deviations from the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert L. Carlson, W.J. Bair
Abstract:In November 1980, Westinghouse Hanford Company installed the initial version of the Safeguards Active Response Inventory System (SARIS). It…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John W. Kane, Martin R. Kodlick
Abstract:The major components of a security system include detection, assessment, access delay, and response. For the security system to be…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.C. Pratt, W. Bernard, C. Garcia, M.C. Lucas, C.E. Moss, E.J. Dowdy
Abstract:Our gamma-ray spectrometer system, designed for field use, offers high efficiency and high resolution for safeguards applications. The…
Type:JNMM
Volume:11
Issue:4
Author(s):A. Bilyk
Abstract:To assess the scope of nuclear activities subject to safeguards in the future, the System Studies Section of the Department of Safeguards…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Henry F. Atwater, J. D. Atencio, J.T. Caldwell, W. Bernard, J.M. Bieri, S.W. France, R.D. Hastings, E.R. Shunk, W.E. Kunz, G.C. Herrera
Abstract:The Advanced Nuclear Technology Group of the Los Alamos National Laboratory recently designed and built a combined passive- and active-…
Type:JNMM
Volume:11
Issue:4
Author(s):Jonathan Sanborn
Abstract:This paper addresses the question of detecting falsifications in material balance accountancy reporting by comparing independently…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.F. Lumb, F.H. Tingey, M. Messinger
Abstract:This paper describes an extension of the AMASS methodology which was previously presented at the 1981 INMM annual meeting. The main thrust…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W.T. Mee
Abstract:The age old method of physically taking an inventory of materials by listing each item's identification number has lived beyond its…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan M. Bieber, A.N. Keswani
Abstract:Bar codes similar to those used in supermarkets can be used to reduce the effort and cost of collecting nuclear materials accountability…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James M. de Montmollin, R. M. Smith
Abstract:The function of IAEA safeguards should be seen in the context of the Agency's responsib i l i t y to enhance the contribution of nuclear…