Advanced-safeguards systems development for chemical-processing plants. Final report for FY 1980
- ed.
The program is installing a computer system to test and evaluate process monitoring as a new Safeguards function to supplement the usual physical security and accountability functions. Safeguards development sensors and instruments installed in the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP) provide information via a data acquisition system to a Safeguards analysis computer. The monitoring function can significantly enhance current material control (accountability) and containment surveillance capabilities for domestic and international Safeguards uses. Installation of sensors and instruments in the ICPP was more than 75% complete in FY-1980. Installation work was halted at the request of ICPP operations near the end of the year to eliminate possible conflict with instrument calibrations prior to plant startup. Some improvements to the computer hardware were made during FY-1980. Sensor and instrument development during FY-1980 emphasized device testing for ICPP monitoring applications. Pressure transducers, pressure switches, a bubble flowmeter, and load cells were tested; an ultrasonic liquid-in-line sensor was developed and tested. Work on the portable, isotope-ratio mass spectrometer led to the comparison of the HP quadrupole instrument with a small magnetic instrument and to the selection of the quadrupole.
- Research Organization:
- Exxon Nuclear Idaho Co., Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-79ID01675
- OSTI ID:
- 6443904
- Report Number(s):
- ENICO-1079
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Instrument installation design criteria safeguards test and evaluation system
Process instrument monitoring for SNM solution surveillance
Related Subjects
055001* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Safeguards
Inspection
& Accountability-- Technical Aspects
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
ACCOUNTING
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DETECTION
FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS
IDAHO CHEMICAL PROCESSING PLANT
ISOTOPE RATIO
MASS SPECTROMETERS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR MATERIALS DIVERSION
SAFEGUARDS
SPECTROMETERS
SURVEILLANCE
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS