Coordinated safeguards for materials management in a uranium--plutonium nitrate-to-oxide coconversion facility [electronic resource] : Coprecal
- Published
- Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1979.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- Pages: 186 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- This report describes the conceptual design of an advanced materials-management system for safeguarding special nuclear materials in a uranium--plutonium nitrate-to-oxide coconversion facility based on the Coprecal process. Design concepts are presented for near real-time (dynamic) accountability by forming dynamic materials balances from information provided by chemical and nondestructive analyses and from process-control instrumentation. Modeling and simulation techniques are used to compare the sensitivities of proposed dynamic materials accounting strategies to both abrupt and protracted diversion. The safeguards implications of coconversion as well as some unique features of the reference process are discussed and design criteria are identified to improve the safeguardability of the Coprecal coconversion process.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:la-7521
la-7521 - Subject(s)
- Other Subject(s)
- Fuel Reprocessing Plants
- Safeguards
- Nuclear Materials Management
- Accounting
- Calcination
- Conversion
- Design
- Material Balance
- Plutonium Nitrates
- Precipitation
- Uranium Nitrates
- Actinide Compounds
- Chemical Reactions
- Decomposition
- Management
- Nitrates
- Nitrogen Compounds
- Nuclear Facilities
- Oxygen Compounds
- Plutonium Compounds
- Pyrolysis
- Separation Processes
- Thermochemical Processes
- Transuranium Compounds
- Uranium Compounds
- Note
- Published through SciTech Connect.
02/01/1979.
"la-7521"
Smith, D.B.; Kern, E.A.; Dietz, R.J.; Cobb, D.D.; Hakkila, E.A.; Shipley, J.P.; Dayem, H.A.; Schelonka, E.P. - Funding Information
- W-7405-ENG-36
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