Estimating discharged plutonium using measurements of structural material activation products

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2002

OSTI ID:975971

Charlton, W S ^[1]; Lumley-Woodyear, A de; Budlong-Sylvester, K W ^[2]

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1. William S.
2. Kory W.

As the US and Russia move to lower numbers of deployed nuclear weapons, transparency regarding the quantity of weapons usable fissile material available in each country may become more important. In some cases detailed historical information regarding material production at individual facilities may be incomplete or not readily available, e.g., at decommissioned facilities. In such cases tools may be needed to produce estimates of aggregate material production as part of a bilateral agreement. Such measurement techniques could also provide increased confidence in declared production quantities.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 975971
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-02-0392; LA-UR-02-392; TRN: US1006842
• Resource Relation: Conference: Submitted to: American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting, Hollywood, FL, June 7-13, 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
BILATERAL AGREEMENTS
FISSILE MATERIALS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PLUTONIUM
PRODUCTION
WEAPONS