WOSMIP IX | Santiago, Chile

The Workshop on Signatures of Man-made Isotope Production (WOSMIP) VIII was held in Santiago, Chile December 4-7, 2023. Please see below for presentation slides from the workshop.

Click here to view the workshop attendee list.

Presentations

December 5, 2023

Presentation Link	Presenter
Welcome to WOSMIP IX and Overview	Ted Bowyer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Evolution of WOSMIP: A Journey Through Time	Paul Saey, University of Vienna
The International Monitoring System Radionuclide Network	Richard Britton, Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization
The Problems of Backgrounds at the CTBTO Prepcom	Anne Tipka, Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization
XENAH: Xenon and Environmental Nuclide Analysis at Hartlepool	Ted Bowyer on behalf of Matthew Goodwin
Evaluation of the Phase II test of Xenon International on Mount Schauinsland - Identifying detections of interest	Sofia Brander, BIS
Xenon Background Measurements and Analysis in Nigeria in the Equatorial Region of Africa	Abdulmajeed Ibrahim, Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority
WOS-list: A repository for xenon source term data	Charlie Doll, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

December 6, 2023

Presentation Link	Presenter
Review of Xe-135 observations, specifically in Japan, and possible sources that might explain high Xe-135/Xe-133 ratios	Martin Kalinowski, Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization
Retention of molten salt reactor off-gas	Clayton Hudson, University of Texas, Austin
XENAH: Current status, results and challenges faced	Andrew Petts, EDF Energy
Impact on IMS of Radioiodine and Radioxenon emission produced by spontaneous fission of Cm-244 and Pu-240 during SNF reprocessing plants	Tatiana Boitsova, Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization
IAEA Cooperative Research Program (CRP)	Lori Metz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Radiation resistance and thermal durability of silver-exchanged zeolites	Christophe Gueibe, SK CEN
STAX	Judah Friese, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Interacting with STAX - Data access and processing	Mihaela Rizescu, Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc. (ISTI)
Update on the STAX data viewing software	Mattias Auer, Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc. (ISTI)
NNSA Support to Mo-99 Production	Max Postman, NA-23
Curium Briefing on Mo-99 _ Xe-133 Production	Roy Brown, Curium Pharma
Full conversion of IRE Mo 99 production process to LEU impact on radio xenon emissions	Frederic Brabant, Institute for RadioElements (IRE)
Project of a new Fission Radioisotope Production Plant in Argentina and the planned noble gas emission mitigation system	Daniel Cesteau, Argentina National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA)
IAEA Activities in support of Mo-99 Production with LEU	John Dewes, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Env Rad Monitoring on territory of the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Poland	Jakub Osko, NCBJ
Using a Monte Carlo Approach to Determine the Radioxenon Probability Density Function at an IMS Station for Background Estimation	Yuichi Kijima, Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization
Investigation of the joint influences of background RN sources and topography on plume characteristics at monitoring sites using the Weather Research and Forecasting model with inline chemistry (WRF-Chem)	Alex Jonko, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Top-down estimates of daily global emissions of anthropogenic radioxenon during 2013-2022	Don Lucas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Software Tool for Exploring Scientific Methods to Estimate the Radioxenon Background with more Confidence	Robin Schoemaker, Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization
The Swedish Noble Gas Array – experience and future	Klas Elmgren, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
Updating Algorithms of Isotopic Activity Ratios and the associated Thresholds for screening CTBT-relevant Nuclear Events	Boxue Liu, Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization