Semi-annual report on strategic special nuclear material inventory differences

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6136813

This eighth periodic semiannual report of inventory differences covers the second six months of fiscal year 1980 (April 1, 1980, through September 30, 1980), for the Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE contractor facilities possessing significant quantities of strategic special nuclear material. Strategic special nuclear material is plutonium or uranium-233 or uranium-235 in material whose uranium-235 content is 20 percent or greater (known as highly enriched uranium). A significant quantity is either 2 kilograms of plutonium or uranium-233 or 5 kilograms of uranium-235 in highly enriched uranium or the appropriate weighted combination. All Inventory Differences reported here have been analyzed, investigated when necessary, and resolved. These data and explanations, together with the absences of physical indications of any theft attempt, support a finding that during this period no theft or diversion of strategic special nuclear material has occurred.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Safeguards and Security
• OSTI ID: 6136813
• Report Number(s): DOE/DP-0001-8; ON: DE81027703
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DATA COMPILATION
INFORMATION
INVENTORIES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIAL UNACCOUNTED FOR
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
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NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
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