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CPA - Cost and Performance Analysis - is a prototype integration of existing PC-based cost and performance analysis … tools: ACEIT (Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools) and ASSESS (Analytic System and Software for Evaluating Safeguards … and Security). ACE is an existing DOD PC-based tool that supports cost analysis over the full life cycle of a system; that …
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of industry, government, and security that—through collaborative means—the effectiveness of the international … together the existing mechanisms of the global nonproliferation regime: export controls, physical protection, and safeguards …
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Implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) has provided a unique challenge for Federal … Agencies, such as the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Waste Management (OWM). While performance measurement, as required … operations for some time. There has been significant discussion about how the private sector uses performance measures, but there …
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portions of the applicable US EPA long-term performance regulations. The first iteration of SPM (SPM-1), the prototype for SPM …
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In March 1994, the US Department of Energy Carlsbad Area Office (DOE/CAO) implemented a performance based decision … of activities in terms of their predicted contribution to long-term performance of the WIPP disposal system; and (3 …) analyze cost, duration, and performance tradeoffs. SPM results were the basis for activities recommended to DOE/CAO in May …
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confidence in performance assessments (PAs) for radioactive waste disposal projects. This has resulted in a number of … the model development and parameterization of the PA system. The Performance Assessment Support System (PASS) is a … support management decisions and to assess performance for the WIPP recertification process. This desk-top PA environment is …
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This study has a two-fold purpose. It seeks to identify the functional requirements of a waste tracking information system and to find feasible alternatives for meeting those requirements on the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) and the Portsmouth (PORTS) and Paducah (PGDP) facilities; identify...
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This brief analysis, which is based on unclassified sources, seeks to identify what some of the implications would be if the Soviets started to move actively to try to provide reprocessing and MOX fabrication services to the US and other countries. While information on Soviet intentions is...
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nuclear safeguards inspections verifying that there has been no diversion of Special Nuclear Material (SNM), these procedures … goes on, and, in many cases, simplifies the calculations. In nuclear safeguards inspections, an important aspect of …
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The development of an approximate-reasoning (AR)-based model to analyze pretreatment options for high-level waste is presented. AR methods are used to emulate the processes used by experts in arriving at a judgment. In this paper, the authors first consider two specific issues in applying AR to...
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