Material control and accountability by process simulation with small talk

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6963176

O'Rourke, P E; Soper, P D

A demonstration material control and accounting (MCandA) system has been written in Smalltalk for the IBM PC-XT computer using the methods environment from Digitalk, Inc. The system is designed to track uranium through a processing facility. The advantages of using a Smalltalk based process simulation to represent the data and code for material control and accounting systems are: (1) the facility operators understand the objects and transfer rules because they understand their process, (2) the MCandA system can be easily modified to reflect changes in facility operation, and (3) the MCandA system can be rapidly developed. Smalltalk is also an attractive language for development of expert systems which would stand alongside the MCandA system. The expert systems would be used to determine the cause of descrepancies. Our goal is an MCandA system which will detect an inventory difference as soon as it occurs and advise the facility operators of possible actions they should take. 3 refs.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 6963176
• Report Number(s): DP-MS-86-087; CONF-860654-52; ON: DE88014795
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Inspection
& Accountability-- Technical Aspects
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
ACCOUNTING
ACTINIDES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DETECTION
ELEMENTS
MANAGEMENT
METALS
NUCLEAR MATERIALS DIVERSION
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
SIMULATION
URANIUM