PROLIFERATION RESISTANCE CRITERIA FOR FISSILE MATERIAL DISPOSITION ISSUES

Year
1995
Author(s)
Bryan L. Fearey - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Donald A. Close - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jack T. Markin - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dennis L. Mangan - Sandia National Laboratories
Cal Jaeger - Sandia National Laboratories
Keith M. Tolk - Sandia National Laboratories
Lonnie Moore - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Debra A. Rutherford - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
The 1994 National Academy of Sciences study \"Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium\" defined options for reducing the national and international proliferation risks of materials declared excess to the nuclear weapons program. This paper proposes criteria for assessing the proliferation resistance of these options as well defining the \"Standards\" from the report. The criteria are general, encompassing all stages of the disposition process from storage through intermediate processing to final disposition including the facilities, processing technologies and materials, the level of safeguards for these materials, and the national/subnational threat to the materials.