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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):F.P. Roberts, R.J. Sorenson, R.J. Kofoed
Abstract:Proliferation resistance engineering (PRE) concepts have been developed to counter the threat of proliferation of nuclear weapons in an…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):George Weisz
Abstract:I would like to open ray remarks by adding my welcome to all of you to the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. W. Morrison, E.D. Blakeman
Abstract:Real time material accountability for a pulse column in a chemical reprocessing plant has been investigated using a simple two state Kalman…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. H. Ehinger, M.L. Madeen, J.M. Crawford
Abstract:Current federal regulations for nuclear materials control require consideration of operating data as part of the quality control program…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H. Ottmar
Abstract:The present status of the non-destructive plutonium isotopic analysis technique using high-resolution gamma spectrometry is evaluated in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):John H. Pender
Abstract:The continuing stream of changes in safeguarding requirements, and perturbations in the Government's philosophy toward safeguards, in the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.M. Lessler, A.S. Ahluwalia
Abstract:A study has been performed for Battelle's Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation (ONWI) to compare three spent fuel disposal alternatives with…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):U. Miranda, H.W. SCHLEICHER
Abstract:The legal and constitutional framework for the implementation of nuclear safeguards in the European Atomic Energy Community is outlined,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Francis X. Haas, Rex D. Gaskins
Abstract:This paper describes the safeguards instrumentation planned for the plutonium Waste Processing and Recovery Facility under construction at…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D. Engi, L.D. Chapman
Abstract:Nuclear safeguards systems provide physical protection and control of nuclear materials. The Safeguards Network Analysis Procedure (SNAP)…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:2
Author(s):Hans E. Hansen
Abstract:The Plutonium Protection System (PPS) is an integrated safeguards system developed by Sandia Laboratories for the Department of Energy's…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael L. Evans, Richard Strittmatter, M.P. Baker, J.W. Tape, M. Jain
Abstract:A selected set of nondestructive assay instruments for an international safeguards system at uranium enrichment plants is currently under…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:2
Author(s):Norbert Ensslin, James E. Stewart, Joe Sapir
Abstract:We have developed self-multiplication correction factors for the nondestructive assay of plutonium oxide or metal in thermal or fast…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C.N. Smith, J.G. Partlow
Abstract:The measurement control program is one of the nine Fundamental Nuclear Material Control principles which form the overall system currently…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:3
Author(s):Antonio J. G. Ramalho Antonio J. G. Ramalho, W. Eric Payne
Abstract:Equipment and procedures currently used by the IAEA to take and analyse the results of spent fuel measurements based on high resolution…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Y. ASAKURA, Austin L. Prindle, R. Gunnink, J.B. Niday, A.L. Van Lehn
Abstract:We describe a computer-based gamma ray spectrometer system using a germanium detector for rapid nondestructive measurement of isotopic and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Leon Green
Abstract:Safeguards implemented by IAEA is essential if the peaceful use of nuclear power is to be continued in the framework of the non-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.R. Rogers, K.W. Foster
Abstract:The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering the use of maximum-loss performance criteria as a means of controlling SNM in nuclear…
Type:JNMM
Volume:8
Issue:1
Author(s):Frank Shu, Joe Watson, Kathryn Eike Dudding, Peter Meenan
Abstract:This paper describes the design and development of an automated LEID, limits of error of inventory difference, computation process. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. STEWART
Abstract:The paper outlines the brief history of a Working Group composed of nuclear fuel plant operators, safeguards research workers and…