Reducing nuclear danger through intergovernmental technical exchanges on nuclear materials safety management
- 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)
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.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 495659
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC--126872; CONF-970424--11; ON: DE97053187
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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