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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:During the last several years, effort has increased to improve existing seals and to develop new seals for international safeguards. Sandia…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Evaluating the performance of a process monitoring system in detecting improper activities that could be related to material diversion…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A variety of practical training exercises have been prepared as part of an effort to develop the training program for IAEA safeguards…
Type:JNMM
Volume:10
Issue:2
Abstract:Areas which require physical protection systems are usually those in which very valuable material, potentially dangerous material, or…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:RACT By combining the measurements obtained by calorimetry and gamma-ray spectroscopy, calorimetric assay provides a nondestructive method…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:he problem of evaluating the performance of a physical protection system occurs at several points in the life cycle of such a system, and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The assay of nuclear material holdup in fuel manufacturing plants is a laborious but often necessary part of completing the material…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:RACT NRC's proposed Self-Test procedures for implementing the MC&A reform amendments for SSNM manufacturers present a number of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Traditionally, the safeguards community has concentrated on hardware-oriented R&D solutions. Given the experience involving human error…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Nuclear material accountancy is used in IAEA safeguards as a measure of fundamental importance, with containment and surveillance as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The present status of IAEA safeguards is primarily the result of events which took place during the last decade. It is the starting point…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The safeguards programme administered by the IAEA must provide assurance to the international community that agency safeguards has the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The PNB Load Cell Scale is a preloaded, Narrow-Band calibration mass comparator. It consists of (1) a frame and servo-mechanism that…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A solution assay instrument (SAI) has been developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and installed in the plutonium purification and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A modern large scale reprocessing facility (1500 MTU/yr) presents a unique challenge to meet current safeguards objectives for timely…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Exxon Nuclear's low enriched uranium fuel fabrication plant is the first U.S. bulk handling facility selected for IAEA inspection under the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A Computerized Nuclear Materials Control and Accounting System such as is installed and operating at the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A study was conducted for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to determine the applicability of the Matrix Analysis of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A controversial but potentially beneficial MC&A strategy that has not been widely attempted in the past is Self-Test. In this strategy…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The generic requirements loss detection, and response to alarms of a contemporary material control and accounting (MC&A) philosophy…