Item identification system for material accountancy glove boxes

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6774749

Johnson, C S; Hale, W R; Martinez, R L ^[1]; Ohtani, T; Takahashi, S; Seya, M ^[2]; Bourrett, S; Klosterbauer, S; Painter, J ^[3]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
2. Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan)
3. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)

The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) has installed an Item Identification System (IIS) or their Material Accountancy Glove Boxes (MAGB) in its Plutonium Fuel Production Facility at Tokai-Mura, Japan. PNC entered into an agreement with the US Department of Energy to have Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) develop the specialized hardware to be used in this application. LANL developed a MAGB Counter which is used to monitor glove boxes during interim inspections and physical inventories. The counter detects when a sample has been placed in a glove box and begins a measurement on the sample. During the measurement process, the counter will send a trigger signal to a Video Surveillance Unit which was developed by SNL. The signal will cause a video recording to be made of the identification number of the sample being measured. This paper discusses the installation and performance of the Item Identification System. 2 refs., 6 figs.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6774749
• Report Number(s): SAND-90-0769C; CONF-9007106-17; ON: DE90013842
• Resource Relation: Conference: Institute of nuclear materials management conference, Los Angeles, CA (USA), 15-18 Jul 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION PLANTS
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
ACCOUNTABILITY
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
EQUIPMENT INTERFACES
GLOVEBOXES
INSPECTION
INSTALLATION
JAPAN
MEMORY DEVICES
PNC
SURVEILLANCE
TRIGGER CIRCUITS
ASIA
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
EQUIPMENT
FUEL FABRICATION PLANTS
JAPANESE ORGANIZATIONS
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PULSE CIRCUITS
TESTING
055000* - Nuclear Fuels- Safeguards
Inspection
& Accountability
050700 - Nuclear Fuels- Fuels Production & Properties
440100 - Radiation Instrumentation
990300 - Information Handling
990200 - Mathematics & Computers