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Type:JNMM
Volume:6
Issue:2
Abstract:This paper deals with the general topic of estimating biases, making bias corrections, and expressing the uncertainty in a result for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The accountability system being designed for automated fuel fabrication facilities will provide real-time information on all Special…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A nuclear fuel reprocessing complex with a continuous flow process and remotely operated facilities is dependent on its network of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:An approach to the development of performance based regulations (PBR's) is described. Initially, a framework is constructed that consists…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Safeguards based on performance criteria can provide a more direct measure of effectiveness than the traditional approach of safeguards by…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A passive gamma assay system has been developed for an accurate analysis of \"calcined ash\" samples containing 235U. The method emphasizes…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A proposal for the certification of Nuclear Materials Custodians and middle level Nuclear Materials Managers is described. A certification…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Our next speaker, Dr. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., received his B.S. degree from Princeton in 1958. This was followed by post-graduate work at…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The measurement of special nuclear materials in various areas of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is based on a combination of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A controllable unit method of material control identifies errors for corrective action, locates areas and time frames of suspected…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Absorption-edge densitometry is a matrix independent, nondestructive assay (NDA) technique that is being developed to measure special…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Because an existing Nal-based system cannot analyze transuranic (TRU) and fission product contaminated combustible waste simultaneously at…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:In a fuel processing facility, material may become unaccounted for in different process stages, such as blending, pelletizing, sintering,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Availability, defined as the ratio of time a computer system is functioning normally to the total time it is in demand, is a measure of the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Alarms must be assessed to determine the cause of the alarm and what response action is required. Some information on cause can be derived…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The system described was designed, developed, and installed on short time scales and primarily utilized off-theshelf military and…
Type:JNMM
Volume:6
Issue:1
Abstract:At least for the next few years, uranium will remain as the dominant fuel used in the nuclear power industry. Natural uranium contains a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A safeguards closed-loop control system for plutonium nitrate transfer and sampling operations is described. This system, currently being…
Type:JNMM
Volume:6
Issue:1
Abstract:Commonly, estimates of measurement precisions are derived from several sources. These may include data routinely generated by an ongoing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) is currently involved in the conceptual design of safeguards for generic facilities in the back…