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Blackwood, L.G.; Harker, Y.D.; Meachum, T.R.; Yoon, Woo Y.
Idaho National Engineering Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)1997
Idaho National Engineering Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)1997
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[en] The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory is being used as a temporary storage facility for transuranic waste generated by the U.S. Nuclear Weapons program at the Rocky Flats Plant (RFP) in Golden, Colorado. Currently, there is a large effort in progress to prepare to ship this waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico. In order to meet the TRU Waste Characterization Quality Assurance Program Plan nondestructive assay compliance requirements and quality assurance objectives, it is necessary to determine the total uncertainty of the radioassay results produced by the Stored Waste Examination Pilot Plant (SWEPP) Passive Active Neutron (PAN) radioassay system. To this end a modified statistical sampling and verification approach has been developed to determine the total uncertainty of a PAN measurement. In this approach the total performance of the PAN nondestructive assay system is simulated using computer models of the assay system and the resultant output is compared with the known input to assess the total uncertainty. This paper is one of a series of reports quantifying the results of the uncertainty analysis of the PAN system measurements for specific waste types and measurement modes. In particular this report covers passive mode measurements of weapons grade plutonium-contaminated graphite molds contained in 208 liter drums (waste code 300). The validity of the simulation approach is verified by comparing simulated output against results from measurements using known plutonium sources and a surrogate graphite waste form drum. For actual graphite waste form conditions, a set of 50 cases covering a statistical sampling of the conditions exhibited in graphite wastes was compiled using a Latin hypercube statistical sampling approach
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Jul 1997; 80 p; CONTRACT AC07-94ID13223; Also available from OSTI as DE98050364; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
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CARBON, DATA, ELEMENTS, FUNCTIONAL MODELS, INFORMATION, MANAGEMENT, MATERIALS, NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, NONMETALS, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, NUMERICAL DATA, PILOT PLANTS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES, RADIOACTIVE WASTES, STORAGE, US AEC, US DOE, US ERDA, US ORGANIZATIONS, WASTE DISPOSAL, WASTE MANAGEMENT, WASTE STORAGE, WASTES
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