Safeguard Application Options for the Laser-Based Item Monitoring System (LBIMS)
Abstract
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are developing a Laser-Based Item Monitoring System (LBIMS) for advanced safeguards at nuclear facilities. LBIMS uses a low-power laser transceiver to monitor the presence and position of items with retroreflective tags. The primary advantages of LBIMS are its scalability to continuously monitor a wide range of items, its ability to operate unattended, its low cost of implementation, and its inherent information security due to its line-of-sight and non-broadcasting operation. The primary proposed safeguard application of LBIMS is described in its name: item monitoring. LBIMS could be implemented in a storage area to continuously monitor containers of nuclear material and the area in which they are stored. The system could be configured to provide off-site notification if any of the containers are moved or removed or if the area is accessed. Individual tags would be used to monitor storage containers, and additional tags could be used to record information regarding secondary storage units and room access. The capability to register small changes in tag position opens up the possibility of several other uses. These include continuously monitoring piping arrangements for design information verification or recording equipment positions for other safeguards systems, such as trackingmore »
- Authors:
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- ORNL
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 939648
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2008/086
NN4003010; MDGA517; TRN: US0806894
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; AUTOCLAVES; COMMUNICATIONS; CONTAINERS; DESIGN; IMPLEMENTATION; LASERS; MONITORING; MONITORS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; OPENINGS; SAFEGUARDS; SECURITY; STORAGE; VALVES; VERIFICATION
Citation Formats
Laughter, Mark D. Safeguard Application Options for the Laser-Based Item Monitoring System (LBIMS). United States: N. p., 2008.
Web. doi:10.2172/939648.
Laughter, Mark D. Safeguard Application Options for the Laser-Based Item Monitoring System (LBIMS). United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/939648
Laughter, Mark D. 2008.
"Safeguard Application Options for the Laser-Based Item Monitoring System (LBIMS)". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/939648. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/939648.
@article{osti_939648,
title = {Safeguard Application Options for the Laser-Based Item Monitoring System (LBIMS)},
author = {Laughter, Mark D},
abstractNote = {Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are developing a Laser-Based Item Monitoring System (LBIMS) for advanced safeguards at nuclear facilities. LBIMS uses a low-power laser transceiver to monitor the presence and position of items with retroreflective tags. The primary advantages of LBIMS are its scalability to continuously monitor a wide range of items, its ability to operate unattended, its low cost of implementation, and its inherent information security due to its line-of-sight and non-broadcasting operation. The primary proposed safeguard application of LBIMS is described in its name: item monitoring. LBIMS could be implemented in a storage area to continuously monitor containers of nuclear material and the area in which they are stored. The system could be configured to provide off-site notification if any of the containers are moved or removed or if the area is accessed. Individual tags would be used to monitor storage containers, and additional tags could be used to record information regarding secondary storage units and room access. The capability to register small changes in tag position opens up the possibility of several other uses. These include continuously monitoring piping arrangements for design information verification or recording equipment positions for other safeguards systems, such as tracking the opening and closing of autoclaves as part of a cylinder tracking system or opening and closing valves on a sample or product take-off line. Combined with attribute tags, which transmit information from any kind of sensor by modulating the laser signal, LBIMS provides the capability to wirelessly and securely collect safeguards data, even in areas where radio-frequency or other wireless communication methods are not practicable. Four application types are described in this report: static item monitoring, in-process item monitoring with trigger tags, multi-layered integration with trigger tags, and line-of-sight data transfer with attribute tags. Field trials for each of these applications are described.},
doi = {10.2172/939648},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/939648},
journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008},
month = {Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008}
}