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Thu - May 8th, 2008
IPFM Research Report #4: Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing in France, by Mycle Schneider and Yves Marignac
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Mon - May 5th, 2008
Available for download: the IPFM briefing on A Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty and Its Verification, United Nations Office at Geneva, Palais des Nations, 2008 NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting
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Tue - Oct 9th, 2007
The Global Fissile Material Report 2007, available for download below.
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Tue - Oct 9th, 2007
IPFM BLOG: Tracking highly enriched uranium and plutonium, the key ingredients in nuclear weapons, and fostering global efforts to secure and eliminate these materials.
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Wed - Jan 17th, 2007
IPFM Research Report #3: Managing Spent Fuel in the United States: The Illogic of Reprocessing
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5th IPFM Plenary Meeting to be held in Geneva, May 2008

Plans for the 5th Plenary Meeting of the IPFM are in progress. The meeting will take place from 30 April - 3 May 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland. IPFM will make presentations at the NPT PrepCom, which will be held at the same time, and at UNIDIR (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research). The focus of these meetings will be on a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty.


4th IPFM Plenary Meeting to be held in London, October 2007

Plans for the 4th Plenary Meeting of the IPFM are in progress. The meeting took place from October 10-13, 2007. The IPFM has plans to meet with the Royal Society and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.


3rd IPFM Plenary Meeting in Vienna, Austria, March 2007

The 3rd plenary meeting of the IPFM was held in Vienna, Austria from March 28-31, 2007. Once again the IPFM briefed members of the Middle Powers Initiative on fissile materials issues and met with several experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency.


2nd IPFM Plenary Meeting in Ottawa, September 2006

The 2nd plenary meeting of the IPFM was held in Ottawa, Canada, September 28-30, 2006 in connection with a conference of the Middle Powers Initiative, which was hosted by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

The IPFM was asked to brief this meeting on technical issues relating to the proposed Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty. This treaty, which is on the top of the nuclear arms control agenda today, would ban the production of additional fissile materials, including plutonium and highly-enriched uranium, for weapons. It would thereby make reductions in existing stocks irreversible.

The International Panel also used this occasion to release its first Global Fissile Materials Report and its first topical reports.