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30 Years Of ABACC - A Regional Safeguards System In The Framework Of International Safeguards And Nuclear Cooperation For Peaceful Purposes
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Marco A. Marzo, Elena Maceiras, Sonia Fernandez Moreno, Ana Maria Vaz de Araujo, Maria Cristina Lourenco, Fabio C Dias
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The creation of ABACC and the Common System of Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (SCCC), a regional safeguards system with unique…
30 Years Of Abacc- The Role Of State Authorities In Supporting Its Activities
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Leonardo A Pardo, Gabriela Acosta, Gustavo D Diaz, Agostina Serrano Betancour, Lilia C Palhares, Geraldo Renha Jr., Marcos Sodre Grund, Luiz Mello
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The confidence-building process between Argentina and Brazil during the 1980s led to a unique safeguards’ agreement: the Agreement between…
5 Year In-core Behavior Of Gamma Thermometer Technology: Proof Of Prototype Life Expectancy
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Andrew R. Kebert, Christopher Freeman
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5 Year In-Core Behavior of Gamma Thermometer Technology: Proof of Prototype Life ExpectancyThis paper summarizes the findings following a 5…
A "Challenge Problem" Approach To Training A New Generation Of Experts In Arms Control
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Nina D Rosenberg, Morag K Smith
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How do we recruit, train, and empower the next generation of arms control specialists? As LANL’s Program Director for Nuclear…
A Collaborative Partnership To Develop A Unique Security Solution For The Protection Of Industrial Irradiators Against Radiological Theft Or Sabotage
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michal Kuca, Andrew Thompson, Martin Comben
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Cobalt-60 used in panoramic irradiators for industrial and research applications can be an attractive theft or sabotage target. Sandia…
A Computational And Experimental Investigation Of Multiplicity Counting With Continuous Fission Chamber Signals
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lajos Nagy, Gergely Klujber, Yasunori Kitamura, Tsuyoshi Misawa, István Barth, Imre Pazsit, Máté Szieberth
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As presented at earlier INMM conferences, one can extract the singles, doubles and triples detection rates of multiplicity counting from…
A Data-driven Approach To Understanding Gender Disparities In Nuclear Engineering
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Katherine M. Bachner, Steve Amundson, Odera Dim, Payton Bartz, Leon Ratz
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Nuclear engineering is an important educational and professional component of many key initiatives of the U.S., including energy and…
A Deep Learning Method For Spatio-temporal Detection Of Atypical Activity In Ngss Camera Data
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Reed Smith, David Alexander Hannasch, Michael Hamel, Maikael Thomas, Maria Camila Gaitan-Cardenas
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This paper presents a deep learning-based method for detecting and visualizing atypical activity in video sequences to assist in the review…
A Flexible And Modular Fast Neutron Multiplicity Counter For Correlated Nuclear Data Research
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven A. Dazeley, Viacheslav A. Li
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We describe a new form of flexible multiplicity counter to address gaps in fission nuclear data by measuring a broad range of correlated…
A Gamma-compensated Helium-4 Ion Chamber For Spent Nuclear Fuel Monitoring
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Oskar Fick Searfus, Matthew L Osborne, Igor Jovanovic
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Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is an intriguing problem from a safeguard instrumentation perspective: for safety reasons, it must be packed with…
A Large Safeguards-informed Hybrid Imagery Dataset For Computer Vision Research And Development
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Zoe Gastelum, Timothy Shead, Ahmad Rushdi
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The scarcity of large, labelled data sets is a barrier to the development of computer vision models in many domains. In international…
A Measurement Campaign In Support Of Technologies For Disarmament Verification
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Alessandro Borella, Ricardo Rossa, Klaas van der Meer, Guido Vittiglio, Gerald Kirchner, Manuel Kreutle
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The performance of measurement technologies play an important role in view of developing a verification strategy in a nuclear disarmament…
A Multilevel Approach To Addressing Emerging Technologies In Nuclear Security
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ian Andrews
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Abstract INMM 62nd Annual Meeting August 21-26, 2021, Vienna, Austria A Multilevel Approach to Addressing Emerging Technologies in Nuclear…
A Near Real Time System (NRTS) To Semi-automatically Verify The Activities In The Interim Spent Fuel Facility (isf2) At Chornobyl In Ukraine
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Angelo Antonio Alessandrello, Stephan Bertl, Federica Mingrone
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The IAEA has developed a new safeguard verification software tool called the “Near Real Time System” (NRTS). NRTS is safeguard data…
A New Compact And Portable Un/attended Fork Detector Monitor (mini-ufdm) For Verification Of Spent Fuel
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Elisa Rapisarda
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) uses Unattended Monitoring Systems (UMS) to support safeguarding nuclear material in…
A New Tool For The Evaluation Of Environmental Samples: Development Of Software For Morphological And Elemental Data Evaluation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kenneth Vilece, Michael Schoeppner, Amy Larson, Mika Nikkinen, Claude F. Norman, Marc Lafitte, Jacques G Baute
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The collection of environmental swipe samples by nuclear safeguards inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), sample…
A Novel Detection Approach To Preventing Theft Of Nuclear Materials Using Deep Learning-based Object Detection And Human Pose Estimation
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Yuki Yokochi, Shi Chen, Kazuyuki Demachi
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According to the Incident and Trafficking Database (ITDB) of IAEA, nuclear security incidents occur in the world about once every three…
A Novel Fiber-Bragg-Grating-Based Unique Identifier For Use In Tags And Seals
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Klaus-Peter Ziock, Phil Evans, Ali Passian, William Ray, James R Younkin
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Tags and seals are important tools used in safeguards regimes for the control of nuclear materials. Vital to a successful tag or seal is…
A Nuclear Material Accounting Simulation Model For Reprocessing Facility
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Lixin Bu, Hongbin Liu, Lixia He
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In order to evaluate the function of NRTA (Near Real Time Accounting) in the reprocessing facility, a simulation model is built, which is…
A Quantitative Unattended System To Assay Uranium In Waste
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Anthony Belian, Lee A ReFalo
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Nuclear material under IAEA Safeguards is required to be verified before being transferred to difficult to access locations such as…