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Preliminary concepts for materials measurement and accounting in critical facilities

Description: Preliminary concepts are presented for improved materials measurement and accounting in large critical facilities. These concepts will be developed as part of a study that will emphasize international safeguarding of critical facilities. The major safeguards problem is the timely verification of in-reactor inventory during periods of reactor operation. This will require a combination of measurement, statistical sampling, and data analysis techniques. Promising techniques include integral measur… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Cobb, D.D. & Sapir, J.L.
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Technical Division quarterly progress report, October 1--December 31, 1977. [Fuel cycle research and development; special materials production]

Description: Results are presented on the fluidized-bed calcination of simulated radioactive waste from the reprocessing of spent commercial nuclear fuel and on the removal of actinide elements from the waste prior to calcination. Other programs include the development of storage technology for /sup 85/Kr waste; and the behavior of volatile radionuclides during the combustion of HTGR graphite-based fuel. The long-term management of defense waste from the ICPP covers post-calcination treatment of ICPP calcin… more
Date: February 1, 1978
Creator: Slansky, C.M. (ed.)
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DYMAC demonstration program: Phase I experience

Description: The DYnamic MAterials Control (DYMAC) project tested a prototype system at the DP Site LASL plutonium facility, which consisted of a computerized accounting system based on material balancing by unit process. Transactions were written to describe the movement of material from one unit process to another. In the DYMAC prototype a specially designed computer program handled transactions that operators entered into the system via a terminal in the processing area. The transactions contained the sa… more
Date: February 1, 1978
Creator: Augustson, R.H.
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RJESTATS: a system of programs for remote job entry station accounting

Description: The RJESTATS system of programs provides accounting information on the use of the Environmental Sciences Division Remote Job Entry (RJE) facility. Summaries can be generated to display the number and kind of users, types of jobs run through the RJE facility, and the persons (or projects) that are utilizing the facility. Sample tables are presented to show certain summaries by user name, job name initials, and types of jobs run. RJESTATS is useful for managing and determining the use of an IBM-c… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Strand, R. H.; Raine, G. B.; Tharp, M. L. & Griffith, N. A.
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Cooperative agreement for No. 2 heating oil pilot price data collection: Vermont State Energy Office end of survey report

Description: The State, through the Vermont State Energy Office in Cooperative Agreement with DOE implemented a weekly Pilot Survey Program for residential No. 2 heating fuel prices. The purpose of this survey program was to collect weekly price data, calculate the statewide average, submit the results weekly to S. J. Seymour, Chief of Energy Data DOE Region I, Boston and publish the average prices to the public and the news media. The methodology used in collecting data was a spinoff of our monthly price s… more
Date: January 1, 1978
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Homeowners' demand for home insulation

Description: The survey was conducted to provide guidance based on the views and experience of a national sample of homeowners about the insulation of their homes. The telephone survey was conducted with 1,012 homeowners between January 12 and 22, 1978 in the East, Midwest, South, and West regions of the U.S. From the survey data were compiled on plans for installing home insulation with emphasis on attic insulation; how many homes now have various types of insulation; recent experiences in obtaining attic … more
Date: April 1, 1978
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Isotopic safeguards techniques

Description: Information is presented to explain and illustrate the idea and uses of isotopic safeguards techniques. A generalized, simple approach is maintained to facilitate understanding of the techniques. Once understood, the application, demonstration, and implementation of isotopic safeguards techniques becomes much easier.
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Timmerman, C.L.
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Structural properties of the material control and accounting system

Description: A unified digraph approach is proposed for the assessment of the structure of the MC and A System. The approach emphasizes the two structural aspects of the system: vulnerability and reliability. Vulnerability is defined as a possibility of loosing connectedness in a given structure due to line and/or node removals. It is purely deterministic notion which leads to a qualitative analysis of redundancy of connections in the corresponding system. Reliability of the MC and A System structure provid… more
Date: December 1, 1978
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Preparation and development of land use energy consumption data sets. Volume 1, phase 1. Final report

Description: An analysis was made of the potential usefulness of land-use-related data, the availability of relevant information in the literature, and potential approaches for data collection. This volume describes the results of the analysis, while Volume II contains technical backup materials. Chapter 2 discusses the issue of community classification: questions of classification and aggregation have been the most significant technical issues faced on the project, since they strongly affect the accuracy a… more
Date: December 20, 1978
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Photovoltaic central power plants. Some new evaluations on the basis of revised insolation data

Description: A comparison of plant performance and cost-effectiveness as computed with two insolation data bases is presented. Three different collector/concentrator concepts (flat peak, north-south parabolic trough, and central receiver) and operation at four locations were evaluated. It is concluded that recent revisions in the insolation data base do not significantly change earlier evaluations of flat-plate photovoltaic plants but result in significantly less optimistic projections of cost-effectiveness… more
Date: July 1, 1978
Creator: Leonard, S. L.
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Impact on waste management from the beneficial utilization of nuclear wastes

Description: The beneficial utilization of waste, regardless of the form selected, is a type of interim retrievable storage. The waste is not eliminated from the environment; nor are any waste management problems solved. An inventory of all constituents utilized must be maintained, and all materials must eventually be returned to a responsible authority for final disposal. Ultimately, any decision concerning the large-scale utilization of wastes or waste constituents should be based on a detailed risk-cost-… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Blomeke, J.O.
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Isotopic safeguards data bank (ISTLIB) and control program (MISTY). [MISTY]

Description: As part of the U.S. program to provide technical assistance to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) has developed a computer code and data bank to aid in the safeguards verification of spent fuel content at the head end of a reprocessing facility. A description and user instructions that uses isotopic safeguards techniques are presented for MISTY, a computer program for analyzing an isotopic data base (ISTLIB). The input, operating procedures, an… more
Date: September 1, 1978
Creator: Timmerman, C. L.
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Capital requirements for energy sector: capital market access. The shift to successful efforts accounting: preliminary review of probable effects on oil and gas industry participants

Description: This report provides an initial assessment of the effects that the adoption of uniform successful efforts accounting might have on access to capital markets and investment behavior in the oil and gas industry. It also proposes a plan of interviews and analysis which would permit informed revision and expansion of that initial assessment. Section II presents a discussion of the origins and current status of the controversy between advocates of successful efforts and full cost accounting. An impo… more
Date: February 1, 1978
Creator: Bennett, V.
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User's manual for computer code SOLTES-1 (simulator of large thermal energy systems). [For CDC 6600]

Description: SOLTES simulates the steady-state response of thermal energy systems to time-varying data such as weather and loads. Thermal energy system models of both simple and complex systems can easily be modularly constructed from a library of routines. These routines mathematically model solar collectors, pumps, switches, thermal energy storage, thermal boilers, auxiliary boilers, heat exchangers, extraction turbines, extraction turbine/generators, condensers, regenerative heaters, air conditioners, he… more
Date: September 1, 1978
Creator: Fewell, M.E.; Grandjean, N.R.; Dunn, J.C. & Edenburn, M.W.
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Technical Division quarterly progress report, January 1--March 31, 1978

Description: Fuel Cycle Research and Development: Results are presented on the fluidized-bed calcination of simulated waste from the reprocessing of spent commercial nuclear fuel, on the post-treatment of the resultant calcine, and on the use of bidentate extractants for the separation of actinide elements from the high-level waste prior to calcination. In addition, the development of storage technology for krypton-85 waste, and the behavior of RuO/sub 2/ in fluidized-bed combustion of HTGR fuel are reporte… more
Date: July 1, 1978
Creator: Slansky, C.M. (ed.)
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Gamma spectrometric methods for measuring plutonium

Description: Nondestructive analyses of plutonium can be made by detecting and measuring the gamma rays emitted by a sample. Although qualitative and semiquantitative assays can be performed with relative ease, only recently have methods been developed, using computer analysis techniques, that provide quantitative results. This paper reviews some new techniques developed for measuring plutonium. The features of plutonium gamma-ray spectra are reviewed and some of the computer methods used for spectrum analy… more
Date: February 16, 1978
Creator: Gunnink, R.
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Performance model for a CCTV-MTI

Description: CCTV-MTI (closed circuit television--moving target indicator) monitors represent typical components of access control systems, as for example in a material control and accounting (MC and A) safeguards system. This report describes a performance model for a CCTV-MTI monitor. The performance of a human in an MTI role is a separate problem and is not addressed here. This work was done in conjunction with the NRC sponsored LLL assessment procedure for MC and A systems which is presently under devel… more
Date: September 20, 1978
Creator: Dunn, D.R. & Dunbar, D.L.
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Development and demonstration program for dynamic nuclear materials control. [DYMAC system]

Description: A significant portion of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Safeguards Program is directed toward the development and demonstration of dynamic nuclear materials control. The building chosen for the demonstration system is the new Plutonium Processing Facility in Los Alamos, which houses such operations as metal-to-oxide conversion, fuel pellet fabrication, and scrap recovery. A DYnamic MAterials Control (DYMAC) system is currently being installed in the facility as an integral part of the pro… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Augustson, R. H.; Baron, N.; Ford, R. F.; Ford, W.; Hagen, J.; Li, T. K. et al.
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Selected Isotopic Functions: A Description and Demonstration of Their Uses

Description: Eleven selected isotopic functions useful in the safeguards verification of input accountability measurements at a reprocessing facility are described. Tables provide summaries of how various factors affect the selected isotopic functions for pressurized water reactors (PWR) and for boiling water reactors (BWR). The eleven isotopic functions shown are pairings of various combination variables of uranium and plutonium isotopics and totals. A description and explanation of these variables and fun… more
Date: October 1978
Creator: Timmerman, C. L.; Selby, G. P. & Napier, B. A.
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Semi-annual report on strategic special nuclear material inventory differences

Description: The generally small differences between the amounts of nuclear materials charged to Department of Energy facilities and the amounts that could be physically inventoried are tabulated and explained. Inventory Differences data cover the period from April 1, 1977, through September 30, 1977. Certain identified accounting corrections for data from earlier periods are included. (LK)
Date: July 1, 1978
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Efficient analysis of dynamic materials accounting data

Description: Current trends in safeguarding special nuclear materials (SNM) in nuclear fuel cycle facilities portend increasing emphasis on timely collection and analysis of materials accounting data. The availability of more and better data argues for an organized framework of techniques to ensure efficient and complete extraction of information concerning possible diversion of SNM. This paper describes such a framework and presents results obtained by analyzing simulated data from a large nuclear fuel cyc… more
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Shipley, J.P.
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Material control system simulator user's manual

Description: This report describes the use of a Material Control System Simulator (MCSS) program for determination of material accounting uncertainty and system response to particular adversary action sequences that constitute plausible material diversion attempts. The program is intended for use in situations where randomness, uncertainty, or interaction of adversary actions and material control system components make it difficult to assess safeguards effectiveness against particular material diversion att… more
Date: January 24, 1978
Creator: Hollstien, R.B.
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Overview of the structured assessment approach and documentation of algorithms to compute the probability of adversary detection

Description: The Structured Assessment Approach was applied to material control and accounting systems at facilities that process Special Nuclear Material. Four groups of analytical techniques were developed for four general adversory types. Probabilistic algorithms were developed and compared with existing algorithms. 20 figures. (DLC)
Date: December 15, 1978
Creator: Rice, T.R. & Derby, S.L.
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Developing Isotopic Functions

Description: Isotopic functions, or ratios of two isotopic variables, are used to verify Pu and U measurements of spent fuels in reprocessing plants. Systematic methods have been developed for forming and evaluating isotopic functions. This paper describes the method used at Battelle to form and evaluate isotopic functions. The data base at Battelle contains measurements and calculations for the fuel from 35 reactors. (DLC)
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Napier, B. A. & Timmerman, C. L.
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