ATTRIBUTE VERIFICATION SYSTEMS WITH INFORMATION BARRIERS FOR CLASSIFIED FORMS OF PLUTONIUM IN THE TRILATERAL INITIATIVE

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2001

OSTI ID:975779

Langner, D C ^[1]; Hsue, S -T ^[2]; MacArthur, D W ^[3]; Nicholas, N J ^[4]; Whiteson, R ^[5]; Gosnell, T B ^[6]; Koening, Z ^[7]; Wolford, J K ^[8]; Aparo, Massimo; Kulikov, Iouri; Puckett, J M ^[9]; Whichello, J ^[10]; Razinkov, S ^[11]; Livke, A ^[12]

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1. Diana C.
2. Sin-Tao
3. Duncan W.
4. Nancy J.
5. Rena
6. Thomas B.
7. Zachary
8. James K.
9. John M.
10. Julian
11. Sergei
12. Alexander

A team of technical experts from the Russian Federation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the United States has been working since December 1997 to develop a toolkit of instruments that could be used to verify plutonium-bearing items that have classified characteristics in nuclear weapons states. This suite of instruments is similar in many ways to standard safeguards equipment and includes high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometers, neutron multiplicity counters, gross neutron counters, and gross gamma-ray detectors. In safeguards applications, this equipment is known to be robust and authentication methods are well understood. However, this equipment is very intrusive, and a traditional safeguards application of such equipment for verification of materials with classified characteristics would reveal classified information to the inspector. Several enabling technologies have been or are being developed to facilitate the use of these trusted, but intrusive safeguards technologies. In this paper, these new technologies will be described.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE
• OSTI ID: 975779
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-01-5567; IAEA-SM-367/17/02
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
IAEA
MULTIPLICITY
NEUTRONS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PLUTONIUM
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
SAFEGUARDS
SECURITY
SPECTROMETERS
VERIFICATION