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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Daiichiro Ito, Mitsuro Matsumoto, Hideki Takatsuki, Hiroyuki YANAGI
Abstract:It is crucial that emergency responses be readied in advance to protect the public against accidents which may occur in the transport of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Claudio A. Gariazzo, Adam D. Williams, Philip A. Beeley, Alexander Solodov, Amir H. Mohagheghi
Abstract:To mark the end of the initial agreement that founded the Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute (GNEII), the institute is…
Type:JNMM
Volume:44
Issue:2
Author(s):John Lepingwell, Teshome Bayou Temesgen, Jose Araujo
Abstract:The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Department of Safeguards cooperates with state and regional authorities responsible for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Henry Gao, M. Desta
Abstract:Since the 1960s, Canada's nuclear power reactors have used over 2.5 million fuel bundles. Each year, about 5,000 fuel bundles per power…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Goodman, J. Stephen Adams, Ph.D., Dunbar Lockwood, Peter Sprunger, Matthew K. Sharp
Abstract:The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards system faces a number of serious challenges. First, the Agency is applying…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alain Lebrun, M. Moeslinger, T. Pochet, James Ely
Abstract:The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has recently deployed advanced On-Line Enrichment Monitors (OLEM) to monitor the enrichment…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Steven Ross, Ralph Best, Philip Jensen, Nicholas Klymyshyn, Paul McConnell, W.L. Uncapher, Sylvia Saltzstein, Ken Sorenson, Brady Hanson, William Shust, David Garrido Quevedo, Jeff England, Russ Walker, Stan Gurule, Ruben Pena
Abstract:The objective of the shock and vibration testing program is to quantify mechanical loads on fuel assembly components that would occur…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Peter Mason
Abstract:A new organization, the NBL Program Office, has been formed with the purpose of ensuring that nuclear material measurements are performed…
Type:JNMM
Volume:44
Issue:2
Author(s):E. Bonner, T. Burr, T. Krieger, C. Norman, K. Zhao, D.H. Beddingfield, T. Lee, M. Laughter, W. Geist
Abstract:In order for the Department of Safeguards to provide credible assurance that states are honoring their safeguards obligations,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Howard L. Hall, John D. Auxier II, Michael B. Shattan
Abstract:Environmental sampling in the context of nuclear safeguards has seen expanded use and authority in recent years, given the recent Joint…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Vangeline Parami, Shazia Fayyaz, Meherun Nahar, Mykola Kurylchyk, Christopher Bajwa
Abstract:1. BackgroundWith the increasing volume of domestic and international transport of radioactive material, each State should establish…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Dr. Rainer Nöring, Dr. Sascha Klappert
Abstract:According to the German Atomic Energy Act, the safe storage of the irradiated nuclear fuel in transport and storage casks inside interim…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nathan C. Rowe, Donald Kovacic, Angela Lousteau, Louise Worrall, Ram Venkataraman
Abstract:The Safeguards and Security Laboratories at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) provide nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Patrick D. Lynch, Howard L. Hall, Joseph R. Stainback IV, PhD, Stephen Dahunsi, John D. Auxier II, Matthew T. Cook, Ferlin McGaskey
Abstract:The current demand for electricity and concern of the climate change in emerging countries has led to the rise in the number of nations…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Anna Wikmark
Abstract:Despite today’s increasingly more reliable operation of nuclear power plants, failed fuel rods exist in all Swedish nuclear power plants.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rossitza Homan, Tamara Brown
Abstract:Over the last two decades a number of United States Government (USG) programs have established international partnerships and facilitated…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):A. Favalli, C. Dubi, Stephen Croft, A. Ocherasvili, B. Pedersen
Abstract:In standard practice of Neutron Multiplicity Counting (NMC), the first three fac- torial moments of the event triggered neutron count…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Daisuke Tsumune, Takaki Tsubono, Kazuhiro Misumi
Abstract:The requirement for a 200 m water submersion test for irradiated fuel packages was originally added to the 1985 edition of the Regulations…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):João G.M. Gonçalves, K. Luetzenkirchen, W. Janssens, S. Abousahl, Zdenka Palajova, Paul Meylemans
Abstract:The European Commission does its research and development activities and provision of expert and technical support to the IAEA with the aim…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):W. Geist, D. Henzlova, A. Favalli, Vlad Henzl, Stephen Croft, Katrina Koehler, T. Cutler, B. Parker
Abstract:Current passive neutron multiplicity counting (PNMC) assay methodology is based on the measurement of correlated rates up to the third…