Comprehensive Review Of Nuclear Materials Of The Former Soviet Union, Including Illicit Diversions

During the past four years the United States (US) has worked with the Russian to assess the diversion vulnerability of the nuclear material at Ministry of Defense (MOD) and MINATOM sites. The US is also providing funding to prevent such a nuclear diversion. Many US and other international programs are interrelated and one picks up where the others leave off All US/Russian collaborations overlap with respect to institutes, materials, facilities and objectives. Using internal finds we have been developing a database named Russia Integrated Nuclear Complex (R-INC) to provide a comprehensive view of he over all Russian nuclear complex and the better understand US/Russian programs currently in existence. The R-INC database tool that can address many programmatic issues, including nuclear nonproliferation. Thus, R-INC can be used to analyze illicit nuclear diversions. R-INC also provides a way to reports is cross-correlated with other data in R-INC pertaining to existing and location of Russian nuclear facilities. The correlated data promotes identification of significant trends associated with the illicit nuclear trafficking.