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Title Proliferation risk in nuclear fuel cycles : workshop summary / Sarah C. Case, rapporteur ; Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2011]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 100 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-77).
Summary The worldwide expansion of nuclear energy has been accompanied by concerns about nuclear weapons proliferation. If sited in states that do not possess nuclear weapons technology, some civilian nuclear technologies could provide a route for states or other organizations to acquire nuclear weapons. Metrics for assessing the resistance of a nuclear technology to diversion for non-peaceful uses-proliferation resistance-have been developed, but at present there is no clear consensus on whether and how these metrics are useful to policy decision makers. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy asked the National Academies to convene a public workshop addressing the capability of current and potential methodologies for assessing host state proliferation risk and resistance to meet the needs of decision makers. Proliferation risk in nuclear fuel cycles is a summary of presentations and discussions that transpired at the workshop-held on August 1-2, 2011-prepared by a designated rapporteur following the workshop. It does not provide findings and recommendations or represent a consensus reached by the symposium participants or the workshop planning committee. However, several themes emerged through the workshop: nonproliferation and new technologies, separate policy and technical cultures, value of proliferation resistance analysis, usefulness of social science approaches. The workshop was organized as part of a larger project undertaken by the NRC, the next phase of which (following the workshop) will be a consensus study on improving the assessment of proliferation risks associated with nuclear fuel cycles. This study will culminate in a report prepared by a committee of experts with expertise in risk assessment and communication, proliferation metrics and research, nuclear fuel cycle facility design and engineering, international nuclear nonproliferation and national security policy, and nuclear weapons design. This report is planned for completion in the spring of 2013.
Contents Background -- Policy makers' perspectives on key nonproliferation issues associated with the nuclear fuel cycle -- Technical assessment of proliferation resistance -- Summary discussions.
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Subject Nuclear fuels -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.
Nuclear fuels -- Research.
United States.
Nuclear fuels.
Nuclear fuels -- Safety regulations -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses.
Nuclear fuels -- Safety regulations.
Government policy.
Nuclear power plants -- Risk assessment -- United States -- Congresses.
Nuclear power plants -- Risk assessment.
Nuclear power plants -- Security measures -- United States -- Congresses.
Nuclear power plants -- Security measures.
Nuclear power plants.
Nuclear facilities -- Security measures -- United States -- Congresses.
Nuclear facilities -- Security measures.
National security -- United States -- Congresses.
National security.
Nuclear terrorism -- United States -- Prevention -- Congresses.
Nuclear terrorism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Case, Sarah C.
National Research Council (U.S.). Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board.
Other Form: Print version: Proliferation risk in nuclear fuel cycles. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011 0309220491 (OCoLC)773672126
ISBN 9780309220507 (electronic book)
0309220505 (electronic book)
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9781280123337
9780309220491
0309220491