Proliferation Risk in Nuclear Fuel Cycles: Workshop Summary

by National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board

The worldwide expansion of nuclear energy has been accompanied by concerns about nuclear weapons proliferation. If sited in states that do not possess nuclear weapons technology, some civilian nuclear technologies could provide a route for states or other organizations to acquire nuclear weapons. Metrics for assessing the resistance of a nuclear technology to diversion for non-peaceful uses-proliferation resistance-have been developed, but at present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309220491
• ISBN13: 9780309220491
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 110 Pages