Test and training facilities at JRC, Ispra for safeguards inspectors

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States)

OSTI ID:5592783

Cuypers, M; Dworschak, H; Foggi, C; Guardini, S; Hunt, B; Landat, D ^[1]

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1. Commission of the European Communities, Ispra (Italy). Joint Research Centre

For the implementation of safeguards in modern and automated nuclear facilities, a large variety of sophisticated verification techniques are being used. The safeguards Authorities are confronted with the need to test the performance of these techniques, to periodically calibrate instruments and test measurement and inspection procedures and last but not least provide effective training to their inspectors. In this framework, JRC has started several years ago a program for establishing test and training facilities. They are PERLA for non destructive assay, LASCO for containment and surveillance, Tank Measurement Lab (TAME) for volume and weight measurement and PETRA for studies of safeguards for reprocessing plant and active waste. PERLA and LASCO are operational and already used by safeguards inspectors, TAME and PETRA will become operational in 1992. The paper describes the characteristics and functions of the different facilities, their actual use and future plans of development.

• OSTI ID: 5592783
• Report Number(s): CONF-910774-; CODEN: NUMMB
• Journal Information: Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States), Vol. 20; Conference: 32. Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) annual meeting, New Orleans, LA (United States), 28-31 Jul 1991; ISSN 0362-0034
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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