Alternative treaty monitoring approaches using ultra-low background measurement technology.
The International Monitoring System (IMS) of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty includes a network of stations and laboratories for collection and analysis of radioactive aerosols. Alternative approaches to IMS operations are considered as a method of enhancing treaty verification. Ultra-low background (ULB) detection promises the possibility of improvements to IMS minimum detectable activities (MDAs) well below the current approach, requiring MDA < or = 30 microBq/m(3) of air for (140)Ba, or about 10(6) fissions per daily sample.
Miley
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HS
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, USA. harry.miley@pnl.gov
Aalseth
C E
CE
Bowyer
T W
TW
Fast
J E
JE
Hayes
J C
JC
Hoppe
E W
EW
Hossbach
T W
TW
Keillor
M E
ME
Kephart
J D
JD
McIntyre
J I
JI
Seifert
A
A
D000336:Aerosols; D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis* / Q000592:standards; D007391:International Cooperation; D038622:Internationality; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis
D000336:Aerosols; D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D011868:Radioisotopes