Preventing nuclear weapon proliferation as nuclear power expands

MRS Bulletin

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 340-342

  Hecker, Siegfried S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RISK ANALYSIS;

NUCLEAR POWER EXPANDS; WEAPONS PROLIFERATION;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

EID: 41849135434     PISSN: 08837694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/mrs2008.69     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. B. Raj, M. Vijayalakshmi, K.B.S. Rao, MRS Bull. 33 (4) (2008).
2. "G-8 Statement on Nonproliferation" (Gleneagles, Scotland, 2005; www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/PostG8_Gleneagles_CounterProliferation.pdf) (accessed January 2008).
3. S.S. Hecker, Ann. Am. Acad. Polit. Soc. Sci. 607 (9), 121 (2006).
4. M. El Baradei, "Nuclear Non-Proliferation: The Security Context" (Statement at the University of Florence by IAEA Director General, October 5, 2007; www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Statements/2007/ebsp2007n016.html) (accessed January 2008).
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6. S.S. Hecker, W. Liou, Arms Control Today, 37 (2), 6 (2007).
7. Two reports published more than 20 years ago came to that conclusion: the U.S. Department of Energy Report on the Nonproliferation Alternative Systems Assessment Program (NASAP) and The International Atomic Energy Agency's International Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE). Also see a discussion in: "Proliferation-Resistant Nuclear Power Systems: A Workshop on New Ideas," (Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UCRL-JC-137954, CGSR-2000-001, March 2000).
8. K.J. Moody, I.D. Hutcheon, P.M. Grant, Nuclear Forensic Analysis (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2005).