ORNL staff working on the project are Charles Finney and Stuart Daw of the Engineering Science and Technology Division. Larry Dickens of the laboratory's Technology Transfer and Economic Development Directorate was also involved. ORNL partnered with Babcock and Wilcox, whose principal team members are Timothy Fuller, Thomas Flynn and Ralph Bailey. Jeff Stallings of EPRI was the project manager.
The Laser-Based Item Monitoring System conducts surveillance by creating high-resolution reflection maps that can sense extremely small changes in the position of a target item through retro-reflected light signals. This surveillance system allows for detecting movement of items within a target area. Because the system doesn't create a visual image, it can be used in situations where confidential information or security interests could be compromised by the use of video surveillance. The project was funded by DOE's Office of International Safeguards and is licensed to Canberra Aquila of Albuquerque, N.M.
Researchers working on the project are Peter Chiaro, Curt Maxey, Timothy McIntyre and Fred Gibson of ORNL's Engineering Science and Technology Division. Dickens was also involved with the project as commercialization manager. John Murphy of DOE was also part of the effort.
The Partnership Award to ORNL and U.S. Enrichment Corp. is for a cooperative research and development agreement for development of a new generation of gas centrifuge plants to produce nuclear fuel for commerci
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Contact: Fred Strohl
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865-574-4165
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
27-Oct-2005