Development of an enrichment monitor for the Portsmouth GCEP

Strittmatter, R B; Stovall, L A; Sprinkle, Jr, J K

Title: Development of an enrichment monitor for the Portsmouth GCEP

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We have developed a gas-phase UF/sub 6/ enrichment monitor for use by the International Atomic Energy Agency at the Portsmouth Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant. The enrichment monitoring system provides a method for effective nuclear materials accountability verification while reducing the effort for both the facility operator and the inspector. The experience with an inplant prototype monitor, the facility and operational constraints, and the constraints related to international safeguards inspection are described in terms of the impact on the monitor design.

Authors:: Strittmatter, R B; Stovall, L A; Sprinkle, Jr, J K

Publication Date:: Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 5659449

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-83-3298; CONF-831106-14
ON: DE84003788

DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-36

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Topical meeting on safeguards technology - the process safeguards interface, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, 28 Nov 1983

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; CENTRIFUGE ENRICHMENT PLANTS; ACCOUNTING; IAEA SAFEGUARDS; GAS CENTRIFUGATION; NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; RADIATION MONITORS; URANIUM 235; URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE; ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CENTRIFUGATION; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FLUORIDES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; HEAVY NUCLEI; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPE SEPARATION; ISOTOPE SEPARATION PLANTS; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; MONITORS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; SAFEGUARDS; SEPARATION PROCESSES; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM FLUORIDES; URANIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 055001* - Nuclear Fuels- Safeguards, Inspection, & Accountability- Technical Aspects; 050502 - Nuclear Fuels- Uranium Enrichment- Centrifugation- (-1989)

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                    Strittmatter, R B, Stovall, L A, and Sprinkle, Jr, J K. Development of an enrichment monitor for the Portsmouth GCEP.  United States: N. p., 1983. 
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                    Strittmatter, R B, Stovall, L A, and Sprinkle, Jr, J K. 1983.  
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