Conveners
Technology Foresight and Emerging Technologies I
- Said Abousahl (EU)
- Nikolay Khlebnikov (Russian Federation)
Technology Foresight and Emerging Technologies I
- Said Abousahl (EC)
- Nikolay Khlebnikov (Russian Federation)
Nicholas Smith
(Argonne National Laboratory)
22/10/2014, 14:10
oral
The safeguards envelope of an aqueous reprocessing plant can be extended beyond traditional measures to include surveillance of the process chemistry itself. By observing the concentration of accountable species in solution directly, a measure of real time accountancy can be applied. Of equal importance, select information on the process chemistry can be determined that will allow the...
Dina Chernikova
(Chalmers University of Technology)
22/10/2014, 14:30
oral
A new approach to environmentally safe unique identification of long-term stored copper canisters is suggested in this paper. The approach is based on the use of a tungsten-based insert placed inside a copper cask between a top iron lid and a copper lid. The insert/label is marked with unique code in a form of binary number, which is implemented as a combination of holes in the tungsten plate....
Tomas Martinik
(Uppsala University & Los Alamos National Laboratory)
22/10/2014, 16:00
oral
The Differential die-away technique (DDA) is currently being investigated within the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative Spent Fuel project as one of the non-destructive assay techniques for spent nuclear fuel characterization and verification. This technique is based on active interrogation of the spent fuel assembly (SFA) by neutrons from an external, off-the-shelf, neutron generator. As...
Mongezi Nangu
(South African Nuclear Energy Corporation)
22/10/2014, 16:20
oral
In nuclear safeguards it is required that thorium content in safeguarded material should be quantified and reported as appropriate. As such the South African State System of Control and Accounting (SSAC) on discovering a number of safeguarded waste drums which contained considerable quantities of thorium decided to initiate a project to properly quantify their thorium content using a high...
Astrid Jussofie
(GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH)
22/10/2014, 16:40
oral
Germany’s current situation of nuclear power supply and SF management derives from two decisions that are now embodied in the German legislation: (1) 13th Amendment of 06th August 2011 to the Atomic Energy Act. Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear energy until end of 2022 led to an enforced shut-down of 8 from a total of 17 nuclear power plants. (2) Law on Site Selection from 23rd July 2013...
Paul Thompson
(AWE)
22/10/2014, 17:00
oral
AWE provides technical expertise to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) on the verification of nuclear-related treaties or arms control agreements. This Nuclear Treaty Verification programme is divided into two parts: an element that monitors for nuclear testing in support of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation; and an element that conducts research to provide advice on the...
