Reducing nuclear danger through intergovernmental technical exchanges on nuclear materials safety management

Jardine, L J; Peddicord, K L; Witmer, F E; Krumpe, P F; Lazarev, L; Moshkov, M

Title: Reducing nuclear danger through intergovernmental technical exchanges on nuclear materials safety management

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The United States and Russia are dismantling nuclear weapons and generating hundreds of tons of excess plutonium and high enriched uranium fissile nuclear materials that require disposition. The U.S. Department of Energy and Russian Minatom organizations.are planning and implementing safe, secure storage and disposition operations for these materials in numerous facilities. This provides a new opportunity for technical exchanges between Russian and Western scientists that can establish an improved and sustained common safety culture for handling these materials. An initiative that develops and uses personal relationships and joint projects among Russian and Western participants involved in fissile nuclear materials safety management contributes to improving nuclear materials nonproliferation and to making a safer world. Technical exchanges and workshops are being used to systematically identify opportunities in the nuclear fissile materials facilities to improve and ensure the safety of workers, the public, and the environment.

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Jardine, L J ^[1]; Peddicord, K L ^[2]; Witmer, F E; Krumpe, P F ^[3]; Lazarev, L; Moshkov, M ^[4]

Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
Radievyj Inst., Leningrad (Russian Federation)

Publication Date:: Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 1997

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 495659

Report Number(s):: UCRL-JC-126872; CONF-970424-11
ON: DE97053187; TRN: 97:019109

DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-48

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: 4. international conference on methods and applications of radioanalytical chemistry, Kona, HI (United States), 6-11 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 9 Apr 1997

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; 35 ARMS CONTROL; US DOE; NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; RUSSIAN ORGANIZATIONS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION; FISSILE MATERIALS; NON-PROLIFERATION POLICY

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                    Jardine, L J, Peddicord, K L, Witmer, F E, Krumpe, P F, Lazarev, L, and Moshkov, M. Reducing nuclear danger through intergovernmental technical exchanges on nuclear materials safety management.  United States: N. p., 1997. 
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                    Jardine, L J, Peddicord, K L, Witmer, F E, Krumpe, P F, Lazarev, L, & Moshkov, M. Reducing nuclear danger through intergovernmental technical exchanges on nuclear materials safety management.  United States.

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                    Jardine, L J, Peddicord, K L, Witmer, F E, Krumpe, P F, Lazarev, L, and Moshkov, M. 1997.  
        "Reducing nuclear danger through intergovernmental technical exchanges on nuclear materials safety management".  United States.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/495659.

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