Conveners
Technical Session 2E: Experiences in Laboratory Analyses and Data Interpretation
- R. Chiappini (France)
- E. Van Zalen (Netherlands)
Prof.
G. Nikolaou
(Greece)
08/07/2014, 14:00
Oral
The identification of unknown nuclear material found undeclared away from designated locations in the nuclear fuel cycle, is an important task in the frame of nuclear forensics. Nuclear forensics is concerned with the timely interception of illicit nuclear material and the determination of its trafficking route from diversion to interception. This could then lead to measures taken in order to...
Dr
I. Hutcheon
(United States of America)
08/07/2014, 14:20
Oral
As part of the effort to strengthen international cooperation in nuclear forensics and nuclear security, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s national laboratories at Livermore (LLNL) and Los Alamos (LANL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (Necsa) in 2011 to collaborate on establishing, maintaining and strengthening nuclear...
Dr
V. Stebelkov
(Laboratory for Microparticle Analysis, Russian Federation)
08/07/2014, 14:40
Oral
Investigation of individual microparticles can be useful for nuclear forensics goals in several cases:
• Determination of characteristics of nuclear material out of regulatory control, when material is not seized, but some trace amounts of material are found anywhere, including crime scene;
• Determination of the transfer rout of material, which is or was found out of regulatory...
J. Wacker
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
08/07/2014, 15:00
Oral
Most of the US’s plutonium and highly enriched uranium was produced for our nuclear weapons program. The plutonium is nominally characterized as containing ~93% 239Pu and the HEU as containing ~93% 235U. However, these two isotopes alone are not sufficient to uniquely characterize either of these two elements. For both HEU and Pu, additional isotopes may be required, coupled with chemical...
