Safeguards Envelope [electronic resource] : The First Steps.
Multi Attribute Utility Analysis; Proiferation Resistance; Reprocessing; Safeguards Envelope.
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Online Access (via OSTI) |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy,
2008.
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Multi Attribute Utility Analysis; Proiferation Resistance; Reprocessing; Safeguards Envelope. |
|---|---|
| Abstract: | The possibility exists for real time accountancy and assay of nuclear materials as they move through a reprocessing facility. This project aims to establish working parameters and local figures of merit to identify possible diversion in real time with minimal operational impact. Factors such as pH, NOX gas concentration, flow speeds and radiation fields are rarely taken into account in safeguards methodologies and will be included to increase the confidence of location and assay of nuclear materials. An adaptable, real data model is being created of the contactors of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Facility and will be analyzed using the appropriate modeling codes. This model will then be subjected to three, diversion scenarios and a figure of merit methodology will be utilized to create the operational parameters under which these diversion scenarios would be detected. This analysis for figure of merit methodology will include statistical fluctuations, operator error, and a rudimentary analysis of transient conditions. The long term goal of the project includes expansion universally over the plant, methods of detection without requiring access to proprietary information, and an evaluation of the requirements for future figure of merit methodologies. |
| Item Description: | Published through SciTech Connect. 03/01/2008. "inl/con-08-14060" 8th International Conference on Facility Operations - Safeguards Interface,Portland, OR,03/30/2008,04/04/2008. Richard Metcalf; Jean Ragusa; Robert Bean. |