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Security Seals for Safeguards

C. Sastre

Nuclear Technology / Volume 23 / Number 2 / August 1974 / Pages 142-145

Technical Paper / Nuclear Safeguards (Presented at November 1973 Meeting) / Safeguard / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31447

Security sealing systems for nuclear materials safeguards are based on tamper indicating and fingerprinted seals. The trend in fingerprinting development is based on random manufacturing process. A present design for fingerprinted seals uses an internally referenced optical alignment technique to provide unaided observation of a digital fingerprint.