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Title: An NDA system for automated inline weapons component dismantlement

Abstract

The Automated Retirement and Integrated Extraction System (ARMS) is a new development and demonstration glove-box line planned for installation at TA-55. The mission of ARIES is development of advanced technologies for disassembly of retired plutonium weapons components. ARIES is subdivided into the following subsystems: Receiving (airlock to system controlled atmosphere), Disassembly (parts are separated into hemishells), Plutonium Consolidation, Americium Removal, Decontamination (removal of trace plutonium from nonplutonium parts), and Nondestructive Assay (NDA). The ARIES NDA subsystem consists of four computer-based NDA instruments (calorimeter, gamma-ray isotopic system, segmented gamma scanner, and an active/passive neutron multiplicity counter); a robot to load and unload the instruments; and a host computer to sense and control the instrument status, schedule measurements, archive the results of the assays, and direct the activities of the robot. The NDA subsystem will be fully integrated into the ARIES process line and will provide assays of nuclear material that are inherently safer and more efficient than nonautomated systems.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10178032
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-93-2503; CONF-930749-38
ON: DE93018374
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 34. annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management,Scottsdale, AZ (United States),18-21 Jul 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; GLOVEBOXES; DESIGN; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; DECOMMISSIONING; ARMS CONTROL; VERIFICATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT; REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATION; COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS; RADIATION DETECTION; 420203; 350300; 450200; HANDLING EQUIPMENT AND PROCEDURES; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS AND EXPLOSIVES

Citation Formats

Sampson, T E, Cremers, T L, Martz, J C, and Dworzak, W R. An NDA system for automated inline weapons component dismantlement. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Sampson, T E, Cremers, T L, Martz, J C, & Dworzak, W R. An NDA system for automated inline weapons component dismantlement. United States.
Sampson, T E, Cremers, T L, Martz, J C, and Dworzak, W R. 1993. "An NDA system for automated inline weapons component dismantlement". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10178032.
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abstractNote = {The Automated Retirement and Integrated Extraction System (ARMS) is a new development and demonstration glove-box line planned for installation at TA-55. The mission of ARIES is development of advanced technologies for disassembly of retired plutonium weapons components. ARIES is subdivided into the following subsystems: Receiving (airlock to system controlled atmosphere), Disassembly (parts are separated into hemishells), Plutonium Consolidation, Americium Removal, Decontamination (removal of trace plutonium from nonplutonium parts), and Nondestructive Assay (NDA). The ARIES NDA subsystem consists of four computer-based NDA instruments (calorimeter, gamma-ray isotopic system, segmented gamma scanner, and an active/passive neutron multiplicity counter); a robot to load and unload the instruments; and a host computer to sense and control the instrument status, schedule measurements, archive the results of the assays, and direct the activities of the robot. The NDA subsystem will be fully integrated into the ARIES process line and will provide assays of nuclear material that are inherently safer and more efficient than nonautomated systems.},
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year = {Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
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