Nuclear Physics And Gamma-ray Sources For Nuclear Security And Nonproliferation - Proceedings Of The International Symposium

Nuclear nonproliferation is a critical global issue. A key technological challenge to ensuring nuclear nonproliferation and security is the detection of long-lived radioisotopes and fissionable nuclides in a non-destructive manner. This technological challenge requires new methods for detecting relevant nuclides and the development of new quantum-beam sources. For example, one new method that has been proposed and studied is nuclear resonance fluorescence with energy-tunable, monochromatic gamma-rays generated by Compton scattering of laser photons with electrons. The development of new methods requires the help of researchers from a wide range of fields, such as nuclear physics, accelerator physics, laser physics, etc. Furthermore, any new method must be compatible with the requirements of administrators and nuclear-material inspectors.Contents: Preface Oral Presentations: Nuclear Science and Applications with the Next Generation of High-Power Lasers and Brilliant Low-Energy Gamma Beams at ELI-NP (S Gales) New Non-Intrusive Inspection Technologies for Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation (R J Ledoux) Development of Gamma-Ray Nondestructive Detection and Assay Systems for Nuclear Safeguards and Security at JAEA (R Hajima) Photonuclear Reaction Studies at HIγS: Developing the Science of Remote Detection of Nuclear Materials (C R Howell) Dipole Strength Around the Particle Threshold (D Savran) Resonant Photonuclear Reactions for Neutrino Nuclear Responses and Nuclear Isotope Detections (H Ejiri) Non-Destructive Testing for Control of Radioactive Waste Package (S Plumeri and F Carrel) Development of First Responders Equipment at RN Incident Sites (K Tsuchiya et al.) Compact Short-Pulsed Electron Linac Based Neutron Sources for Precise Nuclear Material Analysis (M Uesaka et al.) Laser-Driven Plasma Deceleration of Electron Beams for Compact Photon Sources (J-L Vay et al.) Advanced Laser-Compton Gamma-Ray Sources for Nuclear Materials Detection, Assay and Imaging (C P J Barty) Compact Gamma-Beam Source for Nuclear Security Technologies (P Gladkikh and J Urakawa) Developments of Optical Resonators and Optical Recirculators for Compton X/γ Ray Machines (A Martens) Low-Lying “Pygmy” Dipole Resonances and Strength Functions (V Werner et al.) NRF-Based NDA of Nuclear Material Using Monochromatic γ-Ray Beam (T Shizuma et al.) Improving the Assay of 239Pu in Spent and Melted Fuel Using the Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Integral Resonance Transmission Method (C T Angell et al.) Laser Compton Scattering Gamma-Ray Beam Source at NewSUBARU Storage Ring (S Miyamoto et al.) Energy Calibration of Electron and Gamma-Ray Beams at NewSUBARU-GACKO (T Shima and H Utsunomiya) A Paradigm for the Nondestructive Assay of Spent Fuel Assemblies and Similar Large Objects, with Emphasis on the Role of Photon-Based Techniques (A M Bolind) Medium Modification of α Cluster Size in 6Li (T Yamagata et al.) Noninvasive Reactor Imaging Using Cosmic-Ray Muons (H Miyadera et al.) Compton Radiation for Nuclear Waste Management and Transmutation (E Bulyak and J Urakawa) Compact Intense Neutron Generators Based on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement of D-D Fusion Plasmas (K Masuda et al.) NRF Based Nondestructive Inspection System for SNM by Using Laser-Compton-Backscattering Gamma-Rays (H Ohgaki et al.) Development of Measurement Methods for Detection of Special Nuclear Materials Using D-D Pulsed Neutron Source (T Misawa et al.) SOFIA, a Next-Generation Facility for Fission Yields Measurements and Fission Study. First Results and Perspectives (L Audouin et al.) Present Status of Nuclear Data for Nuclear Nonproliferation (M Igashira) Development of the Experimental Photo-Nuclear Reaction Database in Hokkaido University (A Makinaga) Laser-Compton Scattering Photon Beams and Other Gamma-Ray Sources: Project for Coherent Gamma-Ray Source on Basis of Femtosecond Laser at ILC MSU (V G Nedorezov and A B Savelév) Laser Driven Ion Acceleration Study in JAEA (K Kondo) Status...