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Title: Nuclear proliferation and civilian nuclear power. Report of the Nonproliferation Alternative Systems Assessment Program. Volume II. Proliferation resistance

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5352094· OSTI ID:5352094

The purpose of this volume is limited to an assessment of the relative effects that particular choices of nuclear-power systems, for whatever reasons, may have on the possible spread of nuclear-weapons capabilities. This volume addresses the concern that non-nuclear-weapons states may be able to initiate efforts to acquire or to improve nuclear-weapons capabilities through civilian nuclear-power programs; it also addresses the concern that subnational groups may obtain and abuse the nuclear materials or facilities of such programs, whether in nuclear-weapons states (NWS's) or nonnuclear-weapons states (NNW's). Accordingly, this volume emphasizes one important factor in such decisions, the resistance of nuclear-power systems to the proliferation of nuclear-weapons capabilities.

Research Organization:
Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
OSTI ID:
5352094
Report Number(s):
DOE/NE-0001/2F; TRN: 80-011291
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English