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Statistical error model-based and GUM-based analysis of measurement uncertainties in nuclear safeguards – a reconciliation

ESARDA Bulletin - The International Journal of Nuclear Safeguards and Non-Proliferation

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ISSN: 1977-5296, DOI: 10.3011/ESARDA.IJNSNP.2022.2
Publication date
1 June 2022
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Joint Research Centre

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Volume: 64, issue 1, June 2022, pages 10-29

Authors: Oscar Alique1, Yetunde Aregbe2, Raffaele Bencardino3, Robert Binner4, Thomas Burr5, Jeff. A. Chapman6, Stephen Croft6, Andy Fellerman7, Thomas Krieger8, Klaus Martin9, Peter Mason10, Claude Norman4*, Thomas Prohaska11, Divyesh Trivedi12, Steve Walsh13, Dariusz Wegrzynek14, 15, Ben Wright7, Jan Wüster4

1European Commission - Directorate Translation – Evaluation and Analysis, BECH C3, Rue Alphonse Weicker 5, 2721, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2European Commission – Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC), Directorate G – Nuclear Safety & Security Unit G.2 - Standards for Nuclear Safety, Security & Safeguards, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium, 3European Commission – Directorate General for Energy – EURATOM Safeguards EUFO3260, 10 rue R. Stümper L-2557 Luxembourg, 4International Atomic Energy Agency - Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information Analysis Section- Division of Information Management - Department of Safeguards, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, 1400 Vienna, Austria, 5United States Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States of America, 6United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, 7National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), B170, Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria CA20 1PG, United Kingdom, 8Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK), Jülich, Germany, 9Trier, Germany, 10United States Department of Energy, NBL Program Office, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, 11Montanuniversität Leoben - Allgemeine und Analytische Chemie, Franz-Josef-Strasse 18, 8700 Leoben, Austria, 12National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), 5th Floor, Chadwick House, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 6AE, United Kingdom, 13Montana, United States, 14International Atomic Energy Agency- Coordination and Support Section-Office of Safeguards Analytical Services- Department of Safeguards, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, 1400 Vienna, Austria, 15AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, al.Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

Abstract:At the occasion of the Consultants Group Meeting held to review the “International Target Values 2010 for Measurement Uncertainties in Safeguarding Nuclear Material” [3], discussions between experts highlighted the need to improve communication between different safeguards measurement communities, e.g. laboratory analysts, non-destructive assay specialists, safeguards data evaluators, and to reconcile their approaches to estimating measurement uncertainties. The purpose of this paper is to contr ibute to reaching a common understanding of the terminology and methodologies used by different professional groups in the field of uncertainty quantification.

Keywords: Statistical error model, GUM, terminology, uncertainty, measurement, nuclear safeguards

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Alique, O., Yetunde, A., Bencardino, R., Binner, R., Burr, T., Chapman, J.A., Croft, S., Fellerman, A., Krieger, T., Martin, K., Mason, P., Norman, C., Prohaska, T., Trivedi, D., Walsh, S., Wegrzynek, D., Wright, B., & Wüster, J. (2022, June). Statistical error model-based and GUM-based analysis of measurement uncertainties in nuclear safeguards – a reconciliation. ESARDA Bulletin - The International Journal of Nuclear Safeguards and Non-proliferation, 64(1), 10-29. https://doi.org/10.3011/ESARDA.IJNSNP.2022.2

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Statistical error model-based and GUM-based analysis of measurement uncertainties in nuclear safeguards – a reconciliation