Approach to IAEA verification of the nuclear-material balance at the Portsmouth Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant (GCEP)
This paper describes a potential approach by which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) might verify the nuclear-material balance at the Portsmouth Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant (GCEP), should that plant be placed under IAEA safeguards. The strategy makes use of the attributes and variables measurement verification approach, whereby the IAEA would perform independent measurements on a randomly selected subset of the items comprising the U-235 flows and inventories at the plant. In addition, the MUF-D statistic is used as the test statistics for the detection of diversion. The paper includes descriptions of the potential verification activities, as well as calculations of (a) attributes and variables sample sizes for the various strata, (b) standard deviations of the relevant test statistics, and (c) the sensitivity for detection of diversion which the IAEA might achieve by this verification strategy at GCEP.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Union Carbide Corp., Oak Ridge, TN (USA). Nuclear Div.; Goodyear Atomic Corp., Piketon, OH (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 6743237
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-31914; CONF-821119-2; IAEA-SM-260/87; ON: DE83000715
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International symposium on recent advances in nuclear materials safeguards, Nienna, Australia, 8 Nov 1982
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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