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Why should safeguards by design be a global effort?
Jeremy Whitlock
I can’t think of a more exciting time to be working in nuclear, with the diversity of advanced reactor development and increasing global support for nuclear in sustainable energy planning. But we can’t lose sight of the need to plan for efficient international safeguards at the same time.
Global nuclear deployment has been underpinned since 1970 by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), making it a key customer requirement for governments to demonstrate unequivocally that the technology is not being misused for weapons development.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has helped verify this commitment for more than 50 years, but it has never safeguarded many of the advanced reactors (and related fuel cycle processes) being developed today.
R Lässer, B Grieveson, J L Hemmerich, R Stagg, K Walker
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1033-1038
Analysis and Accountancy | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology In Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30542
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The Analytical Laboratory (AN) of the JET Active Gas Handling System (AGHS) is a central facility of the AGHS connected via small bore tubes to the other AGHS sub-systems. It offers various techniques such as gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, ionisation chambers, katharometers and calorimetry, to characterise the various gas samples. The detection ranges of the gas chromatograph for the six hydrogen molecules, helium, nitrogen and oxygen are from about 100ppm to 100% and for methane, higher hydrocarbons, CO and CO2 from about 10ppm to 100% with a thermal conductivity detector and a flame ionisation detector, respectively. Similar detection ranges can be achieved with the quadrupole and omegatron mass spectrometers. In addition tritiated hydrogen and hydrocarbons will be detected with flow proportional counter detectors and ionisation chambers down to the low ppm range. Inactive commissioning results will be presented.