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Superpower arms reduction, nuclear reprocessing and the abandonment or deferral of plans for fast breeder reactions have combined to produce a worldwide surplus of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. Both materials pose security and safety problems, and plutonium poses particular dilemmas for disposal or other ways of consuming the surplus. But new studies and technical developments have opened up new possibilities for managing the plutonium surplus. To highlight the issues raised and to assess these options, the Royal Institute of International Affairs hosted a NATO sponsored Advanced Research Workshop to examine technical aspects of the worldwide surplus of separated plutonium. These proceedings examine the state of knowledge about the amount, form, location and characteristics of separated plutonium, and the many and varied proposals for disposing of or consuming the surplus. With a total of 24 papers and commentaries from leading experts in a dozen countries, it provides an overview of the state of research on ways of dealing with one of today's most pressing security problems, and the potential implications for nuclear energy strategies.

Table of Contents:
1. Technical Interpretation.- Session 1: Explosive Properties of Various Types of Plutonium.- 2. Explosive Properties of Various Types of Plutonium.- 3. Commentary.- Session 2: Amount, Location and Form of Weapons and Reactor Plutonium.- 4. World Inventories of Plutonium.- 5. Problems of Russian Plutonium Utilization.- 6. World Inventories of Civil Plutonium.- Session 3: Direct Disposal Options for Separated Plutonium.- 7. Direct Disposal Options for Separated Plutonium.- 8. Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium.- Session 4: Use of Plutonium in Light-Water Reactors.- 9. The Use of Weapon and Reactor Plutonium in WWER and BN Type Reactors.- 10. Pu Utilisation: Recycling in PWRs and Fast Neutron Reactor Perspective.- 11. Use of MOX (R-Pu and W-Pu) fuel in VVER-1000.- 12. Disposition of Plutonium from Nuclear Weapons.- 13. Commentary: Recycling Warhead Plutonium in Light Water Reactors: The Civil Nuclear Industry Can Help.- Session 5: Energy from Nuclear Fission over the Very Long Term — U-238 and TH-232.- 14. Energy over the centuries: the IFR options.- 15. Commentary.- 16 Commentary.- Session 6: Burning up Actinides and Long-Lived Fission Products?.- 17. Weapons and Commercial Plutonium Ultimate Disposition Choices — Destroy “Completely” or Store “Forever”.- 18. Burning Actinides and Long-lived Fission Products.- 19. Plutonium: Secondary Raw Material or Radwaste.- Session 7: Environmental Impacts and Constraints.- 20. Plutonium and its Chemical Compounds: The Problem of Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation.- 21. Effects of Transmuting Long-lived Radionuclines on Waste Disposal in a Geological Repository.- 22. Commentary: Environmental Impact and Constraints.- Session 8: Costs of Transport and Safeguards Regimes.- 23. Requirements for PlutoniumTransportation, Storage and Accounting Systems.- 24. Commentary: Security/Safeguard Costs.- Appendix: List of Participants.- Biographies.- Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780792331247
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 219
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 170 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0792331249
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 1994
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 1 NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1


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