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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James M. de Montmollin
Abstract:The IAEA Director General convened an Expert Group in December 1978, to study proposals for implementing some form of IPS. The Group…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert W. Kupp
Abstract:Separated and decontaminated plutonium — out of a reactor, in a bottle, tank or canister - represents an easy target for diversion into…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Martin S. Zucker, Tsahi Gozani, Henry Bernatowicz
Abstract:Fast coincidence techniques based on detection of fissions are oft3n used to passively or actively assay SU'1. Severn! commercial…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Ninagawa, J. Ninagawa, J. Ninagawa, H. Kuroda, H. Kuroda, H. Kuroda, S. Yuzawa, S. Yuzawa, S. Yuzawa, A. Kobe, A. Kobe, A. Kobe
Abstract:PNC has carried out the reliability tests as a part of its R & D programs on the physical protection systems for its nuclear facilities…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David J. McCloskey
Abstract:The second Workshop on Power Plant Security, sponsored by the American Nuclear Society (ANS), was held during April 24-27, 1983, with very…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H. Gruemm
Abstract:The basic concepts of IAEA safeguards - political purposes, technical objectives and main procedures - are contained in the relevant…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Stein, M.J. Canty
Abstract:A critical examination of current tendencies in quantification, assessment und enhancement of the effectivness of international safeguards…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert F. Burnett
Abstract:In discharging its responsibility to assure the protection of the public health and safety from exposure to radiation, the NRC focuses on (…
Type:JNMM
Volume:12
Issue:2
Author(s):John L. Jaech
Abstract:In used in designing IAEA inspections are given, along with their bases. Specifically, Sections 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 provide the bases for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. Hoffman, R.P. Tyler
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories uses an automated inventorycontrol system to account for nuclear material. This system provides advantages in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jerry J. Cadwell
Abstract:Recent Supreme Court decisions, which interpret the 200-year-old Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, are used to provide a brief…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T.V. Rebagay, R.S. Lee, G.A. Huff
Abstract:A method for the simultaneous d e t e r m i n a t i o n of americiura and plutonium in reprocessing solutions using an automated on—line c…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jack T. Markin, J.C. Pratt, P.E. Fehlau, T. Scurry, Jr.
Abstract:Radiation monitors for nuclear safeguards and security depend on internal control circuits to determine when diversion of special nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.C. Pratt, T.H. Kuckertz, J.T. Caldwell, D.A. Close, F.J. Schultz, W.E. Kunz, K.W. Haff
Abstract:During the past year, we tested and evaluated the performance of an assay system that accommodates 55-gal. drums of transuranic waste at…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Terry Zimmerman
Abstract:One of the many promising new applications for microprocessors is in the area of online air monitoring for hazardous levels of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alan M. Bieber, Bernard Keisch, Sylvester Suda, C.W. Lower, Bernard Gesslness
Abstract:An automated data acquisition system using barcoded labels was developed for an error propagation exercise to determine the limit of error…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):L. Scheinman
Abstract:The International Atomic Energy Agency is widely understood to be an essential element of an effective international nonprol if er at ion…
Type:JNMM
Volume:12
Issue:2
Author(s):T. E. Sampson T. E. Sampson, Ray Gunnick
Abstract:We discuss methods for the propagation of errors in the determination of plutonium isotopic composition and specific power by gammaray…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):E.M. Meredith
Abstract:The Safeguards Accountability Network (SAN) established at Rocky Flats in 1983 is a culmination of e f f o r t s by R o c k w e l l and DOE…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Darryl J. Downing, David J. Pack
Abstract:Starting in March, 1982, the DOE Office of Safeguards and Security sponsored an error propagation exercise at the Feed Materials Production…