Analytical Methods for Nonproliferation

Introduction -- Nuclear Proliferation -- The Threat of Nuclear Terrorism -- Interdiction of Nuclear Material -- 2. Nuclear Explosives -- History -- Device Physics -- Special Nuclear Material -- 3. Signatures and Background -- Simplified Transport Calculations -- The Radiation Background -- Problems -- 4. Detection Statistics -- Classical and Bayesian Statistics -- Counting Statistics -- Confusion Matrices -- Receiver Operating Characteristics -- Application of Bayesian Statistical Methods -- Pulse Shape Discrimination as an Example of Binary Classification -- Problems -- 5. The Nuclear Fuel Cycle -- Mining and Chemical Processing of Uranium -- UF6 Conversion and Enrichment -- Post-Reactor -- Conversion of Military Materials -- Waste Management -- Enrichment Technologies -- Reactors and Proliferation -- Problems -- 6. Nuclear Forensics -- Introduction -- Attribution Methods -- Analysis Tools -- Problems -- 7. Nuclear Testing -- Introduction and History -- The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the International Monitoring System -- Radionuclide Monitoring -- Seismic Signals -- Hydroacoustic Monitoring -- Infrasonic Signatures -- Concluding Remarks -- Problems -- 8. Active Interrogation -- Introduction -- Neutron Active Interrogation -- Photofission -- Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence -- Dose Considerations -- 9. Advanced Detection Technologies -- Introduction -- Advanced Scintillator Materials -- Advanced Semiconductor Detectors -- Alternatives to 3HE -- Imaging Detectors -- Concluding Remarks -- Problems -- 10 -- Arms Control and Treaty Verification -- Introduction -- Neutron Multiplicity Counting -- Pu300, Pu600, and Pu900 Methods -- Neutron Imaging -- Neutrino Methods -- Concluding Remarks -- Problems -- 11. Public Policy and Proliferation -- Introduction -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- Nuclear Nonproliferation Activities within the US Government -- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) -- A The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons -- The Atomic Energy Act -- The Area under the ROC Curve for Gaussian Probability Distributions -- Index.. - Springer eBooks. - Printed edition: 9783319297293