Fissile material proliferation risk

Journal Article · Fri Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1996 · JNMM

OSTI ID:460550

Dreicer, J S; Rutherford, D A ^[1]

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

The proliferation risk of a facility depends 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 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. 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 nuclear related sites and facilities in different countries and still ensure a global decrease in proliferation risk for fissile material (plutonium and highly enriched uranium).

• OSTI ID: 460550
• Journal Information: JNMM, Journal Name: JNMM Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 25; ISSN JNMMEK; ISSN 0893-6188
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
FISSILE MATERIALS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
PROLIFERATION
SAFEGUARDS
SECURITY