Integrated international safeguards concepts for fuel reprocessing
This report is the fourth in a series of efforts by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, to identify problems and propose solutions for international safeguarding of light-water reactor spent-fuel reprocessing plants. Problem areas for international safeguards were identified in a previous Problem Statement (LA-7551-MS/SAND79-0108). Accounting concepts that could be verified internationally were presented in a subsequent study (LA-8042). Concepts for containment/surveillance were presented, conceptual designs were developed, and the effectiveness of these designs was evaluated in a companion study (SAND80-0160). The report discusses the coordination of nuclear materials accounting and containment/surveillance concepts in an effort to define an effective integrated safeguards system. The Allied-General Nuclear Services fuels reprocessing plant at Barnwell, South Carolina, was used as the reference facility.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA); Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36; AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 5486371
- Report Number(s):
- LA-8955; SAND-81-1311; ON: DE82008974
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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