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Revisiting Statistical Aspects of Nuclear Material Accounting (2013)

T. Burr and M. S. Hamada

Hindawi

In: Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

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Publication Date: 2013-03-21

Description: Nuclear material accounting (NMA) is the only safeguards system whose benefits are routinely quantified. Process monitoring (PM) is another safeguards system that is increasingly used, and one challenge is how to quantify its benefit. This paper considers PM in the role of enabling frequent NMA, which is referred to as near-real-time accounting (NRTA). We quantify NRTA benefits using period-driven and data-driven testing. Period-driven testing makes a decision to alarm or not at fixed periods. Data-driven testing decides as the data arrives whether to alarm or continue testing. The difference between period-driven and datad-riven viewpoints is illustrated by using one-year and two-year periods. For both one-year and two-year periods, period-driven NMA using once-per-year cumulative material unaccounted for (CUMUF) testing is compared to more frequent Shewhart and joint sequential cusum testing using either MUF or standardized, independently transformed MUF (SITMUF) data. We show that the data-driven viewpoint is appropriate for NRTA and that it can be used to compare safeguards effectiveness. In addition to providing period-driven and data-driven viewpoints, new features include assessing the impact of uncertainty in the estimated covariance matrix of the MUF sequence and the impact of both random and systematic measurement errors.

Print ISSN: 1687-6075

Electronic ISSN: 1687-6083

Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering

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Estimating Alarm Thresholds for Process Monitoring Data under Different Assumptions about the Data Generating Mechanism (2013)

Tom Burr, Michael S. Hamada, John Howell, Misha Skurikhin, Larry Ticknor, and Brian Weaver

Hindawi

In: Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

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Publication Date: 2013-06-26

Description: Process monitoring (PM) for nuclear safeguards sometimes requires estimation of thresholds corresponding to small false alarm rates. Threshold estimation dates to the 1920s with the Shewhart control chart; however, because possible new roles for PM are being evaluated in nuclear safeguards, it is timely to consider modern model selection options in the context of threshold estimation. One of the possible new PM roles involves PM residuals, where a residual is defined as residual = data − prediction. This paper reviews alarm threshold estimation, introduces model selection options, and considers a range of assumptions regarding the data-generating mechanism for PM residuals. Two PM examples from nuclear safeguards are included to motivate the need for alarm threshold estimation. The first example involves mixtures of probability distributions that arise in solution monitoring, which is a common type of PM. The second example involves periodic partial cleanout of in-process inventory, leading to challenging structure in the time series of PM residuals.

Print ISSN: 1687-6075

Electronic ISSN: 1687-6083

Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering