Year
1977
Abstract
A nuclear fuel reprocessing complex with a continuous flow process and remotely operated facilities is dependent on its network of instrumentation and laboratory data for process control, materials accounting, and safeguards measurements. Effective and responsive nuclear materials management in this environment requires at its disposal a network of computers and communications equipment if it is to fulfill its objectives. This network which will process and evaluate approximately 200 samples per day requiring 800 analytical determinations, as well as monitor several hundred process parameters, requires data processing capabilities to provide these functions. This computerized processing network at BNFP consists of two systems, the Laboratory Data System, and the Materials Accounting and Control System, and is called AGMAC (Allied-General Materials Accounting and Control System). This paper describes the hardware associated with this system, provides the background for its development, and discusses the various phases of implementation.