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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:This paper describes an International Safeguards Accountancy System as an integration of three basic subsystems. These subsystems are: 1)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Sample sizes are discussed for variables measurements necessary for independent verification of a material balance using the statistical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A systematic analysis of a physical protection system (PPS) is discussed. As background for this discussion, an approach for addressing…
Type:JNMM
Volume:9
Issue:4
Abstract:The implications of the inspector-operator adversary situation in international safeguards are discussed within the context of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Personnel portal monitor was developed for IAEA safeguards at the fast crtical facility FCA. The main components of the portal are, 1) the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:For nuclear materials management and safeguards, accurate determinations of fissile material in reprocessing input solutions belong to the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The objectives and elements of the overall global system for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons are described. The role of the system…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:During the past two years the concept of using C/S measures for safeguards has been extended as a result of work in a number of countries.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A method for the performance assessment of penetration monitoring systems has been developed within the Containment and Surveillance…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Within the nuclear community, shipperreceiver differences generate considerable concern. Current methods of resolving these differences are…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Seal systems for c/s instrumentation used at present need considerable technical and personal expenditure for installation and verification…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:This paper describes the results of applying the Aggregated Systems Model (ASM), a tool developed under the auspices of the Nuclear…
Type:JNMM
Volume:10
Issue:2
Abstract:The data under consideration consist of measurements performed on each of n items by two measurement methods. The problem is to obtain…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The VISA (Vulnerability of Integrated Safeguards Analysis) method, developed in 1976-77 for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has been…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:We have developed a pulsed thermal neutron interrogation system and have demonstrated a sub-1-nCi/g assay sensitivity for high density TRU…
Type:JNMM
Volume:9
Issue:2
Abstract:A portion of a physical protection system utilizing closed-loop control of activities in the plutonium nitrate storage and loadout area…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Generally, the scope of a safeguards evaluation model can efficiently address one of two issues: (1) global safeguards effectiveness or (2…
Type:JNMM
Volume:9
Issue:2
Abstract:A transportable system to perform calorimetric assay has been developed for use by U.S. DOE inspectors. This paper describes the system…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Nondestructive assay (NDA) procedures have been developed to measure the 235U and total U content of scrap and waste material from a…
Type:JNMM
Volume:9
Issue:2
Abstract:Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently built for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a high abundance sensitivity,…