Laboratory demonstration of a multi-sensor unattended cylinder verification station for uranium enrichment plant safeguards

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العنوان: Laboratory demonstration of a multi-sensor unattended cylinder verification station for uranium enrichment plant safeguards
المؤلفون: Karen A. Miller, Eric B. Flynn, Kelly L. Rowland, David Goodman, Sheriden Smith
بيانات النشر: Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 2014.
سنة النشر: 2014
مصطلحات موضوعية: Engineering, Data collection, business.industry, Real-time computing, Software development, Enriched uranium, Cylinder (engine), law.invention, Consistency (database systems), Identification (information), Software, law, Metre, business, Simulation
الوصف: The objective of safeguards is the timely detection of the diversion of a significant quantity of nuclear materials, and safeguarding uranium enrichment plants is especially important in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. The IAEA’s proposed Unattended Cylinder Verification Station (UCVS) for UF6 cylinder verification would combine the operator’s accountancy scale with a nondestructive assay system such as the Passive Neutron Enrichment Meter (PNEM) and cylinder identification and surveillance systems. In this project, we built a laboratory-scale UCVS and demonstrated its capabilities using mock UF6 cylinders. We developed a signal processing algorithm to automate the data collection and processing from four continuous, unattended sensors. The laboratory demonstration of the system showed that the software could successfully identify cylinders, snip sensor data at the appropriate points in time, determine the relevant characteristics of the cylinder contents, check for consistency among sensors, and output the cylinder data to a file. This paper describes the equipment, algorithm and software development, laboratory demonstration, and recommendations for a full-scale UCVS.
DOI: 10.2172/1114399
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::5b18de66060dfea6b5fa7caecf083272
https://doi.org/10.2172/1114399
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