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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The question posed by the title of this paper is rhetorical in nature. The answer to the question can be stated as follows: Commercial…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:It is a pleasure to be here today to discuss some of the steps that can be taken to revitalize the nuclear option, with emphasis on…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The purpose of a tank calibration equation is to obtain an estimate of the liquid volume that corresponds to a liquid level measurement.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The IAEA is currently bringing into routine use safeguards equipment based on new technology. In many cases, bringing this new equipment to…
Type:JNMM
Volume:11
Issue:4
Abstract:A study was made of alternative designs for the portal detection of special nuclear material. Changes in the detector, signal-processing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The material control and accounting system in place in the nuclear fuel facility of the General Electric Wilmington Manufacturing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Considerable emphasis has been given in recent years to the threat of sabotage or theft by an insider at nuclear facilities, a threat…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A portable nondestructive measurement system has been developed and used to measure neutron and gross gamma-ray emission from irradiated…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:This paper describes a method of taking gas-phase or, equivalently, vapor-phase samples from cylinders containing solid or liquid UF6 for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Facilities that require outdoor perimeter sensor fields to furnish perimeter penetration alarms can often benefit by the inclusion of…
Type:JNMM
Volume:12
Issue:2
Abstract:IAEA safeguards are suffering from an erosion of confidence, at a time when the number of safeguarded facilities is growing rapidly,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:This paper concerns the design and development of a centrally located security monitoring and assessment system for processing alarms at…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A number of events have occurred in the commercial nuclear industry which may have involved intentional actions by insiders. What are these…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:General Electric has developed an intelligent microprocessorbased machine vision system that is character font independent and is capable…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:In 1978 the Director General of the IAEA established an Expert Group to prepare proposals for the international management and storage of…
Type:JNMM
Volume:11
Issue:4
Abstract:The effectiveness of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards depends not only on the quality of IAEA inspection and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The capability of an existing segmented gammaray system is being expanded to greatly enhance its usefulness. A multienergy gamma-ray scan/…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Near-Real-time materials accountancy as applied to reprocessing plants involves two major elements, measurement of the in-process physical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant Inventory Control and Accountability System (ORICAS) utilizes state-of-the-art hardware, software,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Availability of adequate supplies of energy at an affordable cost is essential to continued growth of the world's economics. The tie…