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Process Attribute Monitoring Approach To Gaseous Centrifuge Enrichment Plant Safeguards, Adam Michael Shephard
Process Attribute Monitoring Approach To Gaseous Centrifuge Enrichment Plant Safeguards, Adam Michael Shephard
Doctoral Dissertations
Unattended and remote monitoring systems for the early detection of gas centrifuge enrichment plant (GCEP) misuse have long been sought by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards inspectorate, but have yet to be realized for most GCEPs. The primary misuse of concern is high enriched uranium (HEU) production but additionally include excess low enriched uranium (LEU) production and material diversion.
The current research is a feasibility study that investigates a process monitoring approach combined with passive gamma spectroscopy techniques to monitor GCEPs. In the current research, a simulated reference cascade and monitoring system is used to demonstrate several techniques …