Fissile material disposition and proliferation risk

Conference · Wed May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996

OSTI ID:238487

Dreicer, J S; Rutherford, D A ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). NIS Div.

The proliferation risk of a facility is dependent on the material attractiveness, level of safeguards, and physical protection applied to the material in conjunction with an assessment of the impact of the socioeconomic circumstances and threat environment. Proliferation risk is a complementary extension of proliferation resistance. The authors believe a better determination of nuclear material proliferation can be achieved by establishing the proliferation risk for facilities that contain nuclear material. Developing a method that incorporates the socioeconomic circumstances and threat environment inherent to each country enables a global proliferation assessment. In order to effectively reduce the nuclear danger, a broadly based set of criteria is needed that provides the capability to relatively assess a wide range of disposition options/facilities in different countries and still ensure a global decrease in proliferation risk for plutonium.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 238487
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--96-895; CONF-960657--3; ON: DE96009793
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
35 ARMS CONTROL
GLOBAL ASPECTS
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PLUTONIUM
PROLIFERATION
RISK ASSESSMENT
SECURITY
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS