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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.
A. C. Kahler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 145 | Number 2 | October 2003 | Pages 213-224
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2377
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Continuous-energy Monte Carlo eigenvalue calculations have been performed for a selection of HEU-MET-FAST, IEU-MET-FAST, HEU-SOL-THERM, LEU-COMP-THERM, and LEU-SOL-THERM benchmarks using ENDF/B (primarily VI.8), JEFF-3.0, and JENDL-3.3 cross sections. These benchmarks allow for testing the cross-section data for both common reactor nuclides such as 1H, 16O, and 235,238U and structural and shielding elements such as Al, Ti, Fe, Ni, and Pb. The latest cross-section libraries yield near-unity eigenvalues for unreflected or water-reflected HEU-SOL-THERM and LEU-SOL-THERM systems. Near-unity eigenvalues are also obtained for bare HEU-MET-FAST and IEU-MET-FAST systems, but small deviations from unity are observed in both FAST and THERM benchmarks as a function of nonhydrogenous reflector material and thickness. The long-standing problem of lower eigenvalues in water-reflected low-enriched-uranium fuel lattice systems remains, regardless of cross-section library.