Safeguards in the chemical separation area of a reprocessing plant

Conference · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1990 · Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States)

OSTI ID:5664392

Marsh, R D ^[1]

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1. British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., Risley (United Kingdom)

This paper reports that in view of the importance of safeguards in large reprocessing plants, the government of Japan, in 1987, offered additional financial support to the International Atomic Energy Agency. This support was formalized by the inauguration, in October 1988, of a major international initiative, LASCAR (Large Scale Reprocessing). The objective of LASCAR is to assist the IAEA, through the provision of information and expert advice, in the development of effective and efficient safeguards for commercial scale reprocessing plants. The participants comprise the safeguards inspectorate, IAEA and Euratom, and five States (Germany, France, Japan, UK and USA) who operate, or intend to operate, large reprocessing plants, or who are actively engaged in developing safeguards techniques for such plants. LASCAR activities are managed at two levels. Once per year senior official s of the participating organizations meet in plenary session under the chairmanship of the host country, to agree on the general direction. The second level involves studies which are carried out by working groups meeting twice per year, each one under a permanent chairman. working Group 2B, under UK chairmanship, was given the task of studying safeguards in the chemical separation area, that is from the point in the process line immediately after input accountancy measurement up to accountancy measurement of the final products.

• OSTI ID: 5664392
• Report Number(s): CONF-910774--
• Journal Information: Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States), Journal Name: Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States) Vol. 20; ISSN NUMMB; ISSN 0362-0034
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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