Plutonium And Highly Enriched Uranium 1996
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Plutonium And Highly Enriched Uranium 1996
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Author : David Albright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Plutonium And Highly Enriched Uranium 1996 written by David Albright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) are the basic materials used in nuclear weapons. Plutonium also plays an important part in the generation of nuclear electricity. Knowing how much plutonium and HEU exists, where and in which form is vital for international security and nuclear commerce. This book is a thorough revision of the World Inventory of Plutonium and highly Enriched Uranium, 1992. It provides a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the amounts of plutonium and HEU in military and civilian programmes, in nuclear and non-nuclear weapon states, and in countries seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. The capibilities that exist for producing these materials around the world are examined in depth, as are the policy issues raised by them. Containing much new information, this book is indispensable to all those concerned with the great contemporary issues in international nuclear relations: arms reductions in the nuclear weapon states, nuclear proliferation, nuclear smuggling, the roles of plutonium and enriched uranium in the nuclear fuel-cycle, and the disposition of surplus weapon material.
The Challenges Of Fissile Material Control
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Author : David Albright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Challenges Of Fissile Material Control written by David Albright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Political Science categories.
Regaining Security
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Author : William J. Weida
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-12
Regaining Security written by William J. Weida and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-12 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1997, this volume observes that of all the materials, systems and facilities that designed and operated nuclear weapons, the most readily available assets for reuse are often identified as the highly enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium from warheads. However, proliferation concerns the reuse of much of this material unlikely. This book explores the economic issues surrounding the major expenditures facing the US as it attempts to dispose of weapon-grade nuclear materials in a proliferation-resistant manner. The book discusses the economic values of plutonium and HEU, the economic nature of the nuclear industry, reprocessing and operations costs, the economics of ‘burning’ plutonium to generate electrical power, the economics of down-blending and ‘burning’ HEU, military conversion as a rationale for selecting plutonium disposition options, the economics of transmutation, and the economics of other proposals ranging from monitored surface storage to vitrification. The book concludes by identifying the major cost drivers affecting all disposition options.
Reducing The Use Of Highly Enriched Uranium In Civilian Research Reactors
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2016-03-12
Reducing The Use Of Highly Enriched Uranium In Civilian Research Reactors written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-12 with Science categories.
The continued presence of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian installations such as research reactors poses a threat to national and international security. Minimization, and ultimately elimination, of HEU in civilian research reactors worldwide has been a goal of U.S. policy and programs since 1978. Today, 74 civilian research reactors around the world, including 8 in the United States, use or are planning to use HEU fuel. Since the last National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on this topic in 2009, 28 reactors have been either shut down or converted from HEU to low enriched uranium fuel. Despite this progress, the large number of remaining HEU-fueled reactors demonstrates that an HEU minimization program continues to be needed on a worldwide scale. Reducing the Use of Highly Enriched Uranium in Civilian Research Reactors assesses the status of and progress toward eliminating the worldwide use of HEU fuel in civilian research and test reactors.
Uranium Enrichment And Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
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Author : Allan S. Krass
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-20
Uranium Enrichment And Nuclear Weapon Proliferation written by Allan S. Krass and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-20 with Political Science categories.
Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Management And Disposition Of Excess Weapons Plutonium
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Author : National Academy of Sciences
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1995-08-06
Management And Disposition Of Excess Weapons Plutonium written by National Academy of Sciences and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-06 with Science categories.
Within the next decade, many thousands of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons are slated to be retired as a result of nuclear arms reduction treaties and unilateral pledges. Hundreds of tons of plutonium and highly enriched uranium will no longer be needed for weapons purposes and will pose urgent challenges to international security. This is the supporting volume to a study by the Committee on International Security and Arms Control which dealt with all phases of the management and disposition of these materials. This technical study concentrates on the option for the disposition of plutonium, looking in detail at the different types of reactors in which weapons plutonium could be burned and at the vitrification of plutonium, and comparing them using economic, security and environmental criteria.
Solving The North Korean Nuclear Puzzle
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Author : David Albright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Solving The North Korean Nuclear Puzzle written by David Albright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
World Inventory Of Plutonium And Highly Enriched Uranium 1992
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Author : David Albright
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993
World Inventory Of Plutonium And Highly Enriched Uranium 1992 written by David Albright and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Business & Economics categories.
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Monitoring Nuclear Weapons And Nuclear Explosive Materials
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2005-04-15
Monitoring Nuclear Weapons And Nuclear Explosive Materials written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-15 with Political Science categories.
In this study, CISAC tackles the technical dimensions of a longstanding controversy: To what extent could existing and plausibly attainable measures for transparency and monitoring make possible the verification of all nuclear weaponsâ€"strategic and nonstrategic, deployed and nondeployedâ€"plus the nuclear-explosive components and materials that are their essential ingredients? The committee's assessment of the technical and organizational possibilities suggests a more optimistic conclusion than most of those concerned with these issues might have expected.
Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy
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Author : Graham T. Allison
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1996
Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy written by Graham T. Allison and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
Nuclear materials have never been more plentiful or more accessible to rogue states and terrorists. In this study, the authors analyze the consequences of such nuclear leakage for United States national security and argue that it is possibly the nation's h