Achievement of safeguards development at the plutonium fuel production facility

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:6676710

Mishima, T ^[1]

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1. Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuels Development Corp., Ibaraki-ken (Japan)

The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) in Japan has constructed a mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility, the Plutonium Fuel Production Facility (PFPF), to supply fuel for the prototype fast breeder reactor (FBR) Monju and experimental FBR Joyo with a 5-t MOX production capability. In 1986, voluntary cooperation began between PNC and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to provide technical support for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the development of an automated nondestructive assay (NDA) system for spent-fuel assemblies, and it evolved into a bilateral agreement between PNC and the US Department of Energy (DOE) in 1988. The PFPF safeguards approach established is in routine use between international and domestic safeguards inspections today.

• OSTI ID: 6676710
• Report Number(s): CONF-921102--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States) Journal Volume: 66
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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055002* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Safeguards
Inspection
& Accountability-- Nontechnical Aspects
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
ACCOUNTING
ACTINIDES
AGREEMENTS
ASIA
BREEDER REACTORS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ELEMENTS
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EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS
FAST REACTORS
FBR TYPE REACTORS
FUEL FABRICATION PLANTS
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
JAPAN
JAPANESE ORGANIZATIONS
JOYO REACTOR
LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS
METALS
MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION PLANTS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PLUTONIUM
PNC
POWER REACTORS
REACTORS
RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS
SAFEGUARDS
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
US DOE
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