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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:In early 1972 at the request of the Division of Nuclear Materials Security, 65 samples of plutonium were pulled from an AEC contractor…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:he £f fuei rocj assay system designed to measure the total fissile content of LWR fuel rods was described previously! along with some…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The determination of random error components in a measurement process is frequently accomplished by a statistical testing procedure known…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Whenever it is necessary to take a physical inventory for the purpose of establishing the amount of special nuclear material contained in…
Type:JNMM
Volume:1
Issue:2
Abstract:The approach commonly used to find the variance of material unaccounted for (MUF) involves expressing MUF as a linear combination of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The purpose of this report is to present a description of the desipn and of the operating characteristics of a calorimeter which was built…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Anybody at all familiar with the operation of a nuclear fuel fabrication plant knows that it is quite presumptious to set up a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Good afternoon. Usually one is a bit apprehensive when he finds himself as the first speaker in the afternoon. The warm, full feeling is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The Mobile Nondestructive Assay Laboratory (MONAL, Fig. 1) was devel- oped by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to test and demonstrate…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:As the Chairman of the Nuclear Materials Safeguard. Committee of the Atomic Industrial Forum, I am pleased to have the opportunity to…
Type:JNMM
Volume:1
Issue:1
Abstract:When considering activities utilizing nuclear materials, one usually thinks in terms of in-production, in-reactor, or in-recovery; i.e., a…
Type:JNMM
Volume:1
Issue:1
Abstract:The growth of the nuclear power industry will be dependent upon the ability to economically utilize plutonium. With the present emphasis…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:afeguards has been defined as \"a collective term that comprises those measures used to guard against the diversion of material such as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:A multi-channel analyzer and Nal-photomultiplier tube were used to measure the J5U enrichment in low enriched U02 pellets. A selection of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:This paper describes the Nuclear Materials Information System developed and operated by the Nuclear Division of Union Carbide Corporation…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:In 1969 the fuel discharged from Yankee Cores V and VI was reprocessed at the chemical reprocessing center of Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:As fabrication, reprocessing, and residue streams of a nuclear plant tend to stabilize so do the procedures governing quality and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The problem of determining uncertainties on measured quantities of nuclear materials leads directly to the question of estimating the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Next spring we at Philadelphia Electric company plan to insert the initial core of fuel into the first of four 3295 thermal megawatt…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:This past year has not seen the dramatic events in international safeguards which the previous year saw; events such as the formulation of…