The Sandia/Arzamas-16 Magazine-to-Magazine Remote Monitoring Field Trial Evaluation
Sandia National Laboratories and the Russian Federal Nuclear Center-All Russian Research Institute for Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) (also known as Arzamas-16) are collaborating on ways to assure the highest standards of safety, security, and international accountability of fissile material. For these collaborations, sensors and information technologies have been identified as important in reaching these standards in a cost-effective manner. Specifically, Sandia and VNIIEF have established a series of remote monitoring field trials to provide a mechanism for joint research and development on storage monitoring systems. These efforts consist of the ''Container-to-Container'', ''Magazine-to-Magazine'', and ''Facility-to-Facility'' field trials. This paper will describe the evaluation exercise Sandia and VNIIEF conducted on the Magazine-to-Magazine systems. Topics covered will include a description of the evaluation philosophy, how the various sensors and system features were tested, evaluation results, and lessons learned.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 9005
- Report Number(s):
- SAND99-1765C; TRN: US0102738
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: INMM 40th Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ (US), 07/25/1999--07/29/1999; Other Information: PBD: 12 Jul 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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