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Appendix L: Table of MDV R&D Technical Capabilities Needed for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Nuclear Test Explosions, and Arms Control
Pages 165-168

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From page 165...
... for maintaining continuity of knowledge • Standards and training • Validation of open-source information Inspection • Concept of operations • CONOPS, training • CONOPS, training Capability (CONOPS) , training tools, and expertise tools, escort tools, and expertise for post-test protocols, and for safeguards and detection on-site expertise for on-site Additional Protocol inspection capability inspections and inspections (international attended monitoring consensus)
From page 166...
... 166 APPENDIX L MDV for the Nuclear MDV for Nuclear Test MDV for Arms Control Fuel Cycle Explosions On-Site • Radiological and • On-site inspection • Confirm presence or Radiation nuclear material • Increased absence of warheads Detection and measurement and sensitivity threshold and dismantled Characterization characterization and isotopic material • Process monitoring discrimination • Nuclear material in facilities • Fieldable, rapid, measurement and • Improved sensitivity sensitive equipment characterization and discrimination for on-site inspection • Integrated • Field deployable information barriers methods and • Field deployable equipment, improved methods and ruggedness equipment Unattendeda On- • Persistent • Persistent monitoring • Persistent Site Monitoring surveillance of of materials at legacy surveillance of facilities and items test sites facilities and items • Process monitoring • Portal monitoring in facilities Environmental • Particulate and gas • Particulate and gas Monitoringb effluent monitoring effluent monitoring • Swipe analyses • In-situ and airborne • Local and wide- measurements area environmental • Fate and transport, sampling inverse transport • In-situ measurements modeling • Signature discovery • Global background • Fate and transport, characterization inverse transport • RN leakage modeling characterization • Global background characterization Stand-off • Overheadc sensing • Seismic, • Overhead sensing Monitoring • Geologic sensing hydroacoustic, and infrasound monitoring • Overhead sensing • Enhanced local and regional geologic models and coupling/ decoupling models • Improved sensitivity and discrimination
From page 167...
... b Environmental monitoring can be conducted inside and immediately outside nuclear facilities, as well as at much further distances from a known/unknown facility. c Overhead refers to MDV by satellite, airplane, and/or drone.


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