Recent Russian-Hanford MPC and A reciprocal exchanges

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:225360

Sorenson, R J; Schlegel, S C ^[1]; Vogt, E C; Six, D E ^[2]

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1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
2. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)

As part of the 1993 US/Russian Government-to-Government Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC and A) initiative, the US government has proposed a series of site visits to both countries to address nonproliferation concerns and to reduce the potential theft or diversion of direct-use materials in Russia. In 1994, four exchange visits were made between the Hanford Site, which is located in Richland, Washington, and the Mayak and Tomsk Sites in Russia. The two Hanford visits were historical in the sense that no Russians had previously been inside a plutonium storage facility in the United States. The reciprocal visit to the Mayak nuclear complex in Russia provided the US delegation with numerous insights to these facilities and their respective safeguards programs. The reciprocal visit to the Tomsk Site in central Siberia provided the US participants with many insights to the issues surrounding the cutoff of plutonium production and storage of plutonium. This paper describes the specific activities undertaken by exchange participants during the visits. In addition, several conclusions regarding the overall US/Russian exchange program are provided.

• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830; AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 225360
• Report Number(s): CONF-950787--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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