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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tsahi Gozani
Abstract:Portal monitors (PM) provide one of the most effective detection mechanisms at access portals of nuclear facilities. They are especially…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James A. Powers
Abstract:A methodology has been developed for the evaluation of the safeguardability of alternative nuclear fuel cycles. These fuel cycles are…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H. Bueker, R. Buttler
Abstract:In order to meet the requirements of international (IAEA and EURATOM) and national supervisory authorities for improved nuclear material…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:1
Author(s):Takeshi Osabe
Abstract:Japan ratified the NPT and concluded a Safeguards Agreement under the NPT between Japan and IAEA in March 1977. In consequence of this,…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:1
Author(s):John L. Jaech
Abstract:The problem of estimating errors of measurement when two or more measurement "methods" are used to measure each of n items has been…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.R. Whetstone, S.M. Baker
Abstract:Facts and falacies of process tank calibration concern minimization of modeling error associated with a tank and the use of redundancy to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G.A. Westsik
Abstract:An annual process equipment holdup inventory measurement program for a Plutonium processing plant was instituted by Rockwell Hanford…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard J. Gigliotti, Captain Frank Bolz, Jr.
Abstract:With the increasing possibility of terrorist action directed against a nuclear facility, there exists a need for preparing security…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B.F. Disselhorst, J. Razvi
Abstract:Uranium-235 measurement control for high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) fuel manufacture can involve more than 20 categories of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Frank Houck
Abstract:I would first like to say that it is a pleasure to address members of the Institute on the subject of the safeguards of the International…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan M. Krichinsky, W.J. Armento, W.D. Box, J.R. Parrott
Abstract:The principal objective of ORNL-ESP is to demonstrate process monitoring as it might be accomplished by inspectors of any nuclear fuel…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:1
Author(s):Owen Gailar, Robert Kramer
Abstract:In a previous paper a method was described by which the correlation between the isotopic concentration for TJ computer program and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A.M. Ross, R.N. Paul
Abstract:This paper describes the commissioning and daily management of INMACS, the Integrated Nuclear Material Accounting and Control System used…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. Buchler
Abstract:The work of a safeguards inspector of the IAEA is described in its professional, technical and personal aspects. The prerequisities for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.W. Jeter, L.T. Hagie, E.F. Kurtz
Abstract:A unique method is being developed to indirectly measure the mass of liquid in a tank. This method (the Bob Displacement Technique), which…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:2
Author(s):Sanda Onnen, Volker Jarsch
Abstract:A minicomputer-based system for nuclear materials control is presented. Significant properties of the system are interactive data entry…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C.E. Johnson
Abstract:The U. S. DOE is evaluating process monitoring as part of a total nuclear material safeguards system. A monitoring system is being…
Type:JNMM
Volume:7
Issue:4
Author(s):Richard A. Schneider, Roy Nilson
Abstract:Today materials accounting in the low enriched conversion-fabrication sector of the LWR fuel cycle is of increased importance. Low…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.L. McDaniel, J.E. Glancy, L. Huszar
Abstract:SAI has developed an analysis method called MAIT, an acronym for \"Matrix Analysis of the hisider Threat\" which evaluates a specific…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W.R. Severe, C. C. Thomas, Jr.
Abstract:A measurement control program has been developed for the nondestructive assay (NDA) instruments used in the Los Alamos Scientific…