SELECTED NONDESTRUCTIVE ASSAY INSTRUMENTATION FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SAFEGUARDS SYSTEM AT URANIUM ENRICHMENT PLANTS

Year
1979
Author(s)
Michael L. Evans - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Richard Strittmatter - Los Alamos National Laboratory
M.P. Baker - Los Alamos National Laboratory
J.W. Tape - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
M. Jain - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
A selected set of nondestructive assay instruments for an international safeguards system at uranium enrichment plants is currently under development. These instruments are of three types: in-line enrichment meters for feed, product, and tails streams; area radiation monitors for direct detection of high-enriched uranium production, and an enrichment meter for spent alumina trap material. The current status of the development of each of these instruments is discussed, with supporting data, as well as the role each would play in a total international