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IAEA Regional Offices Study
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Bryce Farabaugh, Jenn Hart, Olympia Hunt, Robert Marek, Katie Spence
Abstract:During the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had to adapt and draw on all available resources to ensure…
IAEA Safeguards Criteria
Everything You Might Like to Know but Didn’t Know Who to Ask
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James A. Larrimore
Abstract:The IAEA Safeguards Criteria 1991-1995 started their life in 1991, initially for a five-year period. As it turned out, the Safeguards…
ICEBERG : An Informatic Platform Processing Nuclear Material Accounting Data
for French Non Proliferation Commitments
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sarah Breton
Abstract:A proper accounting system is among the pillars that structure the Euratom safeguards implementation. Accounting declarations from nuclear…
Illicit Trade and Sanctions Evasion in Strategic Goods:
Constructing a Crime Script from Court Documents
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher Nelson
Abstract:Crime scripts have been used to break down complex criminal acts into sequences of actions and decision points, which used to identify…
Image analysis to support DCVD verification
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Erik Branger, S. Grape, Markus Preston
Abstract:The Digital Cherenkov Viewing Device (DCVD) is one instrument available to authority inspectors for verifying spent fuel assemblies in wet…
IMPLEMENTATION OF A PERFORMANCE-BASED INSPECTION
REGIME FOR NUCLEAR SECURITY IN BRAZIL
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):L.F. BLOOMFIELD TORRES, B. McGINNIS, J.S. MONTIERO FILHO, N. MUT-TRACY, R. NATHA
Abstract:On October 15, 2021, the Brazilian Congress enacted Law No. 14.222 that created the Autoridade Nacional de Segurança Nuclear (ANSN). This…
Implementation of a System of Gamma Imagers for Measuring
Plutonium Holdup
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kyle Schmitt, Jacob Daughhetee, Philip Gibbs, Alex Laminack, Jonathan Mitchell, Valerie Nwadeyi, Klaus Ziock
Abstract:The Surplus Plutonium Disposition (SPD) project is an effort to dilute and dispose of many tons of weapons grade plutonium. This work will…
Implementing Safeguards by Design for an Advanced Reactor
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas Wood, Jo Anna Bredenkamp, Thomas Grice
Abstract:Despite strong IAEA support for and increasing industry interest in Safeguards by Design (SbD), no definite model for its implementation…
IMPROVEMENT IN CODED-APERTURE IMAGE QUALITY USING CONTINUOUS
MASK ROTATION
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven T Brown, Reid Sobota, David I. Goodman, James R. Mason, David Tefft, Ammon N. Williams, Janine N. Lambert, David L. Chichester
Abstract:Holdup is the residual nuclear material inside process equipment at nuclear facilities and it is routinely measured for materials…
Improvement of Laboratory Capabilities
for Safeguards Measurements of Nuclear
Material
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. Buda, K. Casteleyn, J. Horta-Domenech, A. Sanchez-Hernandez, E. Zuleger
Abstract:The Directorate-General Energy (ENER) fulfils the safeguards obligations stipulated by the Article 77 of EURATOM treaty for European…
Improvements to nuclear data in service of Intentional Forensics
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Amber Lauer-Coles, D.A. Brown, A. Cuadra, A. Mattera
Abstract:The Intentional Forensics (IF) venture seeks to identify and perfect tagging technologies for nuclear fuel provenance and tracking. These…
Including Safeguards in the Radioactive Waste Planning Process
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nicholas Smith, Rebecca Robbins, Jeremy J Whitlock
Abstract:When States create or assess their radioactive-waste program, they must be able to examine the entirety of the process, from generation to…
Increasing Non-proliferation through Collaboration between NWS and
NNWS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Fadhlur Rahman Alfaruqi
Abstract:The Russian invasion of Ukraine can generate momentum either to motivate a country to start a nuclear weapon program or, on the opposite…
INSIGHTS FROM THE SECURITY OF ADVANCED REACTORS WORKSHOP
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Aaron Fjeldsted, Jonathan Balog, Madison Gitzen, Christopher Balbier, Josef Bauer, Branko Kovacevic, Matthew Zerphy, Joseph Rivers
Abstract:The Nuclear Security and Physical Protection Technical Division of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) and The…
INSPECTA 1.0: IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES FOR ON-DEVICE
SPEECH AND VISION TASKS
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nathan Shoman, Philip Honnold, Heidi Smartt, David Hannasch
Abstract:Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has become ubiquitous in our day-to-day lives, powering common conveniences such as…
Inspecta 1.0: Incorporating Spot Robotic Support
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Zahi Kakish, Kyle Williams, Shiloh Elliot, Sagan Cox, Heidi Smartt
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories has designed and is developing Inspecta (International Nuclear Safeguards Personal Examination and…
Institutionalizing Safeguards by Design: Opportunities and Challenges for Newcomer
Countries
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Juanita Ayivor, Ann Mensah, Alex Osei-Agyemang
Abstract:With the expansion and evolving of Nuclear Power Plant technologies to more newcomer countries comes further burden on international…
Integration of Nuclear Safety and Security in Research Reactors using a Monte Carlo
Simulation aided Analytical Hierarchy Process
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jason T. Harris, Theodore Thomas
Abstract:All operations involving nuclear and radioactive materials require exercising principles of nuclear safety and security. The goal of both…
Integration of the H3D-M400 detector and Spot robot for automated area
survey missions
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lohith Annadevula, Odera Dim, Steven Glozek, Yonggang Cui, Warren Stern, S.K. Aghara
Abstract:Area survey and search/confirmation of nuclear/radioactive sources in public areas are challenging and time-consuming tasks. When…
Intentional Forensics: Tagging Strategies for Rapid Nuclear Material
Provenance Assessment
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Spencer M. Scott, Naomi Marks, Ashley E. Shields, Matthew S Wellons, David Brown, Nicholas Condon, Jeremy Osborn, Rebecca Chamberlain
Abstract:Intentional Forensics is the strategy of deliberately introducing benign and persistent material signatures during nuclear fuel…