Volume 4, Number 3
October 2006

International Workshop on Best Practices for Material Hold-Up Monitoring
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tenn. USA
Oct. 29-Nov. 3, 2006

By Chris Pickett INMM Member at Large pickettca@ornl.gov

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will host the INMM-sponsored International Workshop on Best Practices for Material Hold-Up Monitoring, Oct. 29 – Nov. 3, 2006. The workshop will focus on discussions and demonstrations of best practices from subject matter experts and practitioners from around the world.

Presentations will discuss techniques that have been utilized worldwide to detect and characterize nuclear materials held up in processes and equipment and the policies used to report quantities detected.

The primary goal of the workshop will be to compile a document that lists the best practices and lessons learned from those experts that routinely try to characterize material hold-up. Information and presentations from the workshop will be compiled and made available to all participants through the INMM Web site at www.inmm.org

Workshop Format
Each day of the 4.5-day meeting will begin with presentations from subject matter experts and practitioners, followed by a panel discussion with workshop participants. After lunch, the attendees will be split into three to four breakout groups. Each group will be assigned to compile lists of best practices for hold-up characterization for different types of scenarios.

Each day, one breakout group will rotate to the ORNL Safeguards Laboratory for a technology demonstration of laboratory-developed and vendor-supplied technologies. On the last day of the workshop, each breakout group will present to the entire audience the results compiled from their breakout sessions. 

All presentations will be in English.

For additional information, contact Cameron Coates at 865-241-5123 or e-mail coatescw@ornl.gov; or Chris Pickett at  865-574-0891 or e-mail pickettca@ornl.gov.