The use of Penetration Monitoring in Safeguards Systems

Year
1981
Author(s)
S. Kaiser - Commission of the European Communities
M.E. Bleck - Sandia National Laboratories
Abstract
A method for the performance assessment of penetration monitoring systems has been developed within the Containment and Surveillance Subgroup of the International Working Group on Reprocessing Plant Safeguards. The paper examines the use of this method and concludes that the technique is extremely useful in containment and surveillance system design and could also be valuable in operational safeguards systems providing the information generated were used with the care appropriate to the inherent assumptions.