We calculated the amount of waste material at various diversion points, considering four feeder-related process-upset scenarios and formulated considerations for the development of a control concept.
Moreover, the nature of these materials makes their diversion difficult to prevent, and because many biological materials and technologies have dual uses, illegitimate activities can be very difficult to detect.
Rhetoric aside, however, the association now cajoles companies to consider the smarter reuse of materials and increased diversion of waste from landfill, both of which can give builders more points if they are building a LEED-certified project.
In the Dominican Republic, almost one third of total hospital expenditure remains unaccounted for, representing some combination of theft of materials and supplies, diversion of funds and gross mismanagement [ 37].
He fears that the material is vulnerable to diversion or military use.
The Nuclear Security Summit was designed to focus on one of those pillars-the need to safeguard nuclear material against theft or diversion.
The DDG needs to be an activist to institutionalize and insist on broad member state acceptance of nuclear security -- preventing terrorist or criminal diversion of material from civil nuclear facilities -- as a core Agency mission.
"What has changed now is the attitude of trying to seek a solution that at the same time guarantees the preservation of our technology and permits the agency to be certain that there is no diversion of material within the factory," Odair Gonçalves, president of Brazil's national nuclear commission, said at a news conference here on Monday.
To this end, America should help both countries adopt the most modern procedures and technologies to protect their nuclear weapons and materials from theft or diversion.
And the fuel banks are seen as having built-in theft protection because member nations can watch one another to prevent diversions of material for nuclear arms.
