Development of an enrichment monitor for the Portsmouth GCEP

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5659449

Strittmatter, R B; Stovall, L A; Sprinkle, Jr, J K

We have developed a gas-phase UF/sub 6/ enrichment monitor for use by the International Atomic Energy Agency at the Portsmouth Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant. The enrichment monitoring system provides a method for effective nuclear materials accountability verification while reducing the effort for both the facility operator and the inspector. The experience with an inplant prototype monitor, the facility and operational constraints, and the constraints related to international safeguards inspection are described in terms of the impact on the monitor design.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5659449
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-83-3298; CONF-831106-14; ON: DE84003788
• Resource Relation: Conference: Topical meeting on safeguards technology - the process safeguards interface, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, 28 Nov 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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