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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.A. Al-Ayat, B. Judd
Abstract:This paper summarizes a quantitative tool developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to aid the NRC in establishing Material…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James E. Lovett
Abstract:Most studies of near-real-time materials accountancy have related either to the development of the necessary measurement technology or to…
Type:JNMM
Volume:9
Issue:2
Author(s):Joerg H. Menzel, John P. Boright John P. Boright, Leonard M. Brenner
Abstract:US views on international safeguards at uranium enrichment plants have evolved over a number of years. This paper attempts to assemble in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Bruce Varnado, Roy A. Haarman
Abstract:As a part of the review of amended security plans, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is using systematic analytic techniques to…
Type:JNMM
Volume:9
Issue:1
Author(s):James M. de Montmollin James M. de Montmollin
Abstract:Note on the Definition of Safeguards: a word with many meanings; general and specific to the nuclear industry. Because of the confusion…
Type:JNMM
Volume:7
Issue:4
Author(s):John W. Leake, Kenneth P. Lambert
Abstract:A comparison is made between the Variable Dead Time Counter (V.D.C.) and Shift Register neutron coincidence systems for the assay of ru.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.D. Scott
Abstract:Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory (HEDL) has established a formal training program for nuclear material (NM) custodians. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.A. Schneider, N.S. Wing, K.O. Johnson
Abstract:A measurement control program for a low enriched conversion-fabrication plant for LWR fuels is described. The program is used to control…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Eccleston, H.O. Menlove, M.W. Echo
Abstract:A nondestructive neutron interrogation svstem, being developed to assay the 235u content in bulk waste solids and high enriched spent fuel…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:3
Author(s):George H. Winslow, Frank O. Bellinger
Abstract:A model has been developed which describes the enhancement of the response over the sum of the responses of individual highly enriched…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E.J. Dowdy, A.A. Robba, R.D. Hastings, S.W. France
Abstract:An operationally simple, portable, microprocessorbased, unattended reactor power monitor was developed for International Atomic Energy…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:1
Author(s):George H. Winslow, Frank O. Bellinger, Jerry F. Staroba, Lonnie Edwards
Abstract:A segmented gamma-ray scanner has been found to be usable for a type of a sample totally at variance with that for which it was designed…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Frank O. Bellinger, R. B. Perry, C.T. Roche, J.J. Vronich
Abstract:Argonne National Laboratory is decommissioning a facility used to fabricate reactor fuel elements. The equipment is contaminated with alpha…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Dennis L. Mangan
Abstract:The design of a portal developed as part of an advanced international containment and surveillance system concept for fast critical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W.T. Mee
Abstract:A material control and accountability system to assist in detecting diversion of special nuclear materials (SNM) was being considered by…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.J. Brouns, J.A. Merrill
Abstract:The current method of testing the inventory difference (ID) for each material balance period is not a very powerful procedure for detecting…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Henry F. Atwater, P.E. Fehlau, E.R. Shunk, J.T. Caldwell
Abstract:Special nuclear materials vehicle monitors, including gateside vehicle monitors, hand-held personnel-vehicle monitors, and a new tunnel…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John W. Kane
Abstract:Activated denial concepts are being developed and systems tested that can, on command, thwart or delay an adversary from accomplishing an…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Cuypers
Abstract:The objectives, activities and results of the ESARDA working groups are illustrated. Several working groups are oriented towards the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard F. Davis
Abstract:Computer-based systems are being used in an increasing number of nuclear materials management and safeguards applications. The goal of the…