THE DOE TARGET VALUE PROGRAM AND PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

The DOE Target Value (TV) Program proposes performance targets for safeguards measurements for use throughout the DOE nuclear material measurement community. The quality of measurement performance, coupled with the quality of other components of the nuclear materials safeguards system, defines an overall safeguards level of performance that can be stated as the probability of detection of a given event. TVs define a state-of-practice that is, or should be, attainable under routine laboratory conditions using currently available measurement methods for materials in the nuclear fuel cycle. TVs are presently defined for product or nearproduct quality materials. Process, scrap or recycle materials have more process/mater Laispecific impact on measurement quality and TVs for these materials, as yet, have not been defined. A tabular comparison is presented of measurement performance quality from the literature, from several measurement evaluation programs and from Target Values developed by a Working Group of the European Safeguards Research and Development Association (ESARDA) and endorsed by ANSI/ INMM Committee N.15 Subcommittee on Measurement Control.