Dismantling the Bomb and Managing the Nuclear Materials
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780788102882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Experts have been investigating how to use, control, or dispose of nuclear materials -- plutonium & highly enriched uranium -- that are recovered from dismantled warheads & could pose long-term environmental, safety, & health risks. This report analyzes the current programs & policies & evaluates the prospects for future success. Policy initiatives were presented: a national dismantlement policy; strengthening Dept. of Energy management; nuclear materials storage, & disposition; a new materials management organization; information access; & cooperation with Russia.
Author: États-Unis. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1428920897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon Press Publishers
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Published: 1994-10
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780849085536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Experts have been investigating how to use, control, or dispose of nuclear materials -- plutonium and highly enriched uranium -- that are recovered from dismantled warheads and could pose long-term environmental, safety, and health risks. This report analyzes the current programs and policies and evaluates the prospects for future success. Policy initiatives were presented: a nat'l. dismantlement policy, strengthening DOE mgmt., nuclear materials storage, and disposition, a new materials mgmt. organ., info. access, and coop'n. with Russia.
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003-06-09
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780309087223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The production of nuclear materials for the national defense was an intense, nationwide effort that began with the Manhattan Project and continued throughout the Cold War. Now many of these product materials, by-products, and precursors, such as irradiated nuclear fuels and targets, have been declared as excess by the Department of Energy (DOE). Most of this excess inventory has been, or will be, turned over to DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM), which is responsible for cleaning up the former production sites. Recognizing the scientific and technical challenges facing EM, Congress in 1995 established the EM Science Program (EMSP) to develop and fund directed, long-term research that could substantially enhance the knowledge base available for new cleanup technologies and decision making. The EMSP has previously asked the National Academies' National Research Council for advice for developing research agendas in subsurface contamination, facility deactivation and decommissioning, high-level waste, and mixed and transuranic waste. For this study the committee was tasked to provide recommendations for a research agenda to improve the scientific basis for DOE's management of its high-cost, high-volume, or high-risk excess nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuels. To address its task, the committee focused its attention on DOE's excess plutonium-239, spent nuclear fuels, cesium-137 and strontium-90 capsules, depleted uranium, and higher actinide isotopes.
Author: OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Publisher: Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005-04-15
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0309181216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this study, CISAC tackles the technical dimensions of a longstanding controversy: To what extent could existing and plausibly attainable measures for transparency and monitoring make possible the verification of all nuclear weaponsâ€"strategic and nonstrategic, deployed and nondeployedâ€"plus the nuclear-explosive components and materials that are their essential ingredients? The committee's assessment of the technical and organizational possibilities suggests a more optimistic conclusion than most of those concerned with these issues might have expected.
Author: Nicholas Zarimpas
Publisher: Sipri Monograph
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780199252428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These studies address the technical means and procedures for establishing transparency in nuclear warheads and materials in the nuclear weapons states.
Author: Stephen I. Schwartz
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 750
ISBN-13: 9780815722946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war. Some observers believe the absence of a third world war confirms that these weapons were a prudent and cost-effective response to the uncertainty and fear surrounding the Soviet Union's military and political ambitions during the cold war. As early as 1950, nuclear weapons were considered relatively inexpensive— providing "a bigger bang for a buck"—and were thoroughly integrated into U.S. forces on that basis. Yet this assumption was never validated. Indeed, for more than fifty years scant attention has been paid to the enormous costs of this effort—more than $5 trillion thus far—and its short and long-term consequences for the nation. Based on four years of extensive research, Atomic Audit is the first book to document the comprehensive costs of U.S. nuclear weapons, assembling for the first time anywhere the actual and estimated expenditures for the program since its creation in 1940. The authors provide a unique perspective on U.S. nuclear policy and nuclear weapons, tracking their development from the Manhattan Project of World War II to the present day and assessing each aspect of the program, including research, development, testing, and production; deployment; command, control, communications, and intelligence; and defensive measures. They also examine the costs of dismantling nuclear weapons, the management and disposal of large quantities of toxic and radioactive wastes left over from their production, compensation for persons harmed by nuclear weapons activities, nuclear secrecy, and the economic implications of nuclear deterrence. Utilizing archival and newly declassified government documents and data, this richly documented book demonstrates how a variety of factors—the open-ended nature of nuclear deterrence, faulty assumptions about the cost-effectiveness of nuclear weapons, regular misrepresentati