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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
William C. Bartels
Nuclear Technology | Volume 23 | Number 2 | August 1974 | Pages 101-105
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safeguards (Presented at November 1973 Meeting) / Safeguard | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31441
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New technology has been developed for nuclear material safeguards, in addition to the technology of nondestructive assay. New information on nuclear material shipments by truck supports efforts to provide a secure vehicle and radio communications system to improve the protection. Physical containment at fixed plant sites includes doorway personnel monitors to provide improved protection against covert removal of small quantities of nuclear material including plutonium and enriched uranium. Technology for better nuclear materials accountability and inventory verification includes sample dissolution techniques and automated spectrophotometric and titrimetric equipment enabling an analytical laboratory to increase the rate at which chemical analyses can be done for uranium and plutonium. Increased numbers of random samples will reduce ordinary uncertainties in accountability determinations due to random errors in individual measurements.