Symposium on International Safeguards: Linking Strategy, Implementation and People - IAEA CN-220

Session

Automation and Instrumentation Data Analysis in Safeguards Verification

10 IDA

21 Oct 2014, 14:00

M Building

Conveners

Automation and Instrumentation Data Analysis in Safeguards Verification

• Alexey Anichenko (CTBTO)
• Zhongqi Wang (China)

Automation and Instrumentation Data Analysis in Safeguards Verification

• Alexey Anichenko (CTBTO)
• Zhongqi Wang (China)

152. Evolution of RAINSTORM

Christoph Brunhuber (IAEA)

21/10/2014, 14:10

oral

The IAEA began using remote monitoring in 1997 as a means of optimizing inspection efforts while simultaneously improving the timeliness of safeguards information. Use of remote monitoring has gradually expanded over the last 15+ years. To manage the complexity of this vast network of diverse instruments, in 2012 the IAEA Department of Safeguards initiated an effort to define a set of...

154. Joint Partnership – a New Software Development Paradigm

Andreas Smejkal (Euratom)

21/10/2014, 14:30

oral

A joint development partnership between Euratom and the IAEA was established in 2013 for the standard software iRAP (Integrated Review and Analysis Program), an automated analysis tool for Non-Destructive Analysis data. The application includes a database system which allows inspectors to perform an efficient, easy and quick review of huge amounts of safeguards relevant data especially in...

224. Evaluation of a Surveillance Review Software based on Automatic Image Summaries

Cristina Versino (European Commission - Joint Research Centre)

21/10/2014, 14:50

oral

Surveillance streams from safeguards instruments contain thousands of images. Inspectors review them in order to find safeguards-relevant events. Statistically a very small fraction of the images is expected to be safeguards-relevant. For this reason inspectors need a tool which helps them to focus their attention directly to the relevant parts of the surveillance stream. The current approach...

136. The Development of Advanced Processing and Analysis Algorithms for Improved Neutron Multiplicity Measurements

Peter Santi (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

21/10/2014, 15:10

oral

One of the most distinctive and informative signatures of special nuclear materials is the emission of correlated neutrons from either spontaneous or induced fission. Because the emission of correlated neutrons is a unique and unmistakable signature of nuclear materials, the ability to effectively detect, process, and analyze these emissions will continue to play a vital role in the...

75. Can Nuclear Installations and Research Centres Adopt Cloud Computing Platform?

Ameer Pichan (Curtin University, Australia)

21/10/2014, 16:00

oral

Cloud Computing is arguably one of the recent and highly significant advances in information technology today. It produces transformative changes in the history of computing and presents many promising technological and economic opportunities. The pay per use model, the computing power, abundance of storage, skilled resources, fault tolerance and the economy of scale it offers, provides...

150. Sustaining IAEA Neutron Coincidence Counting, Past, Present and Future

Joe Longo (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

21/10/2014, 16:20

oral

Los Alamos National Laboratory's IAEA Neutron Coincidence Counting (INCC) code is the standard tool for neutron coincidence counting measurements. INCC software and its’ predecessors were originally implemented in the 1970s. The measurement and analysis techniques perfected in the code arise from many years of laboratory and field experience by nuclear engineers and physicists. Covering the...

197. Material Accounting Issues at the U.S. MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility

Edwin Lyman (Union of Concerned Scientists)

21/10/2014, 16:40

oral

The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) is under construction in the United States. The plant is being licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which as the U.S. SSAC regulates both domestic MC&A and compliance with international safeguards (where applicable). Among the NRC’s MC&A requirements for Category I fuel cycle facilities are programs for item and process...

102. Automated Image Acquisition System for the Verification of Copper Brass Seal Images

François Littmann (Joint Research Centre)

21/10/2014, 17:00

oral

This paper describes a system for the verification of copper brass seals realized by JRC according to DG ENER requirements. DG ENER processes about 20,000 metal seals per year. The verification of metal seals consists in visually checking the identity of a removed seal. The identity of a copper brass seal is defined by a random stain pattern realized by the seal producer together with random...