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Fissile Material Minimization through Packaging & Removal of Weapons Usable Plutonium Fuel Materials
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The pace of fuel cycle research with plutonium materials worldwide has decreased significantly over the last two decades and a number of…
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The United States have already announced around 20 reactor shutdown and many more in the next 10 year. Financial constraints on plant…
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The U.S. Department of Energy, including the National Nuclear Security Administration, require flexible storage for a variety of small…
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The safety evaluation of cask components made of ductile cast iron includes investigations to prevent brittle fracture. Generally, ductile…
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In order to guarantee the good behavior of components important for safety in all conditions of transport, a specific attention should be…
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The nuclear landscape today faces an uncertain future. The predicted “nuclear renaissance” has failed to materialize in the United States,…
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The goal of this work is to characterize sources of spectral variation of the gamma-ray emissions of a filled uranium hexafluoride (UF6)…
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The reactivity of critical and near-critical fissile systems is a quantity of interest in nuclear nonproliferation, criticality safety, and…
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The GE Model 2000 Radioactive Material Transport Package (GE2000) was developed at Vallecitos Nuclear Center and is designed to transport…
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In this work a genetic algorithm is used to determine the neutron energy flux spectra of a nuclide source from a scintillation detector…
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A server-based geofence program has been developed for the ARG-US TRAVELER to enable establishment of a virtual geographic boundary for a…
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The U.S. Department of Energy produced a variety of unique isotopes in production reactors at the Savannah River Site, supporting actinide…
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The US National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Radiological Safety has initiated the formation of a government and industry…
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In 2015, the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Mechanical Engineering Department began offering a 9-credit, regionally accredited Graduate…
Guide for Employing High-Resolution Gamma Spectroscopy for 252Cf Source Age and Isotopic Composition
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Californium-252 is commonly used as calibration source for neutron coincidence and neutron multiplicity counting in nuclear safeguards.…
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This paper provides an overview of the actual surveillance requirements of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, ENSI, relating to…
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The Department of Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute are conducting a large scale, long term, dry storage cask research and…
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SNL in collaboration with PNNL, BAM (Germany), and ENSA (Spain) conducted two 30 cm drop tests of a 1/3 scale cask. The tests took place in…
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This year, the detailed characterizations of four irradiated curium target rod segments are being completed at the Oak Ridge National…
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In the US, most of the existing or proposed radioactive waste storage and disposal sites are located in the West. Western states'…