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Tue - Jul 8th, 2008
IPFM Research Report #5: The Legacy of Reprocessing in the United Kingdom, by Martin Forwood
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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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DOCUMENTS & RESOURCES

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	ach46.pdf (PDF, 466 KB) C. I. Barnard, J. R. Oppenheimer, C. A. Thomas, H. A. Winne, and D. E. Lilienthal (Chairman of the Board of Consultants), A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy; Prepared for the Secretary of State's Committee on Atomic Energy (known as: The Acheson-Lilienthal Report), Washington, DC, 1946.

	ake02.pdf (PDF, 5,6 MB) Arbeitskreis Auswahlverfahren Endlagerstandorte, Site Selection Procedure for Repository Sites, Recommendations of the AkEnd -- Committee on a Site Selection Procedure for Repository Sites, Cologne, Germany, December 2002.

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	bar04.pdf (PDF, 31 KB) Establishment of a NWFZ in the Middle East, Explanation of Vote by Mr. Alon Bar, Director of Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, 26 October 2004.

	bnl96.pdf (PDF, 2,4 MB) D. Dougherty, A. Fainberg, J. Sanborn, J. Allentuck, and C. Sun, Routine Inspection Effort Required for Verification of a Nuclear Material Production Cutoff Convention, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Report BNL-63744, SSN-96-14, 1996.

	buk67.pdf (PDF, 2,6 MB) V. M. Bukalov and A. A. Narusbayev, "Atomic Propulsion Installations," Chapter VIII in Atomic-Powered Submarine Design, AD 664961, National Technical Information Service, December 1967 (Russian original:1964).

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	cbo04.pdf (PDF, 147 KB) The Cost of Implementing the Additional Protocol to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC, 5 March 2004.

	cd1693.pdf (PDF, 15 KB) Initiative of the Ambassadors Dembri, Lint, Reves, Salander and Vega, CD/1693/Rev. 1, 5 September 2003.

	cha00.pdf (PDF, 1,2 MB) J. M. Charpin, B. Dessus and R. Pellat, Economic Forecast Study of the Nuclear Power Option: Report to the Prime Minister, 2000.

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	doe94a.pdf (PDF, 490 KB) Impact of the Use of Low or Medium Enriched Uranium on the Masses of Space Nuclear Reactor Power Systems, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, December 1994.

	doe96.pdf (PDF, 1,1 MB) Plutonium: The First 50 Years: United States Plutonium Production, Acquisition and Utilization from 1944 Through 1994, U.S. Department of Energy, DOE/DP-0137, 1996.

	doe96a.pdf (PDF, 314 KB) DOE Declassifies Location and Forms of Weapon-Grade Plutonium and Highly-Enriched Uranium Inventory Excess to National Security Needs, U.S. Department of Energy, press release, 8 February 1996.

	doe96b.pdf (PDF, 7,7 MB) Initial Report on Characterization of Excess Highly Enriched Uranium, Y/ES-086, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, July 1996.

	doe97.pdf (PDF, 20,9 MB) Nonproliferation and Arms Control Assessment of Weapons-Usable Fissile Material Storage and Excess Plutonium Disposition Alternatives, U.S. Department of Energy, DOE/NN-0007, Washington, D.C., January 1997.

	doe00.pdf (PDF, 98 KB) Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation Concerning the Management and Disposition of Plutonium Designated as No Longer Required for Defense Purposes and Related Cooperation, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., 2000.

	doe00b.pdf (PDF, 1,2 MB) Annex: Attributes of Proliferation Resistance for Civilian Nuclear Power Systems, in Technological Opportunities to Increase the Proliferation Resistance of Global Nuclear Power Systems, U.S. Department of Energy, Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee, Washington, D.C., 2000.

	doe01.pdf (PDF, 5,6 MB) Highly Enriched Uranium: Striking a Balance; A Historical Report on the United States Highly Enriched Uranium Production, Acquisition, and Utilization Activities from 1945 through September 30, 1996, Rev. 1., Draft, U.S. Department of Energy, January 2001 (publicly released in 2006).

	doe01b.pdf (PDF, 6 MB) Arms Control and Nonproliferation Technologies: Technology R&D for Arms Control, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nonproliferation Research and Engineering, Spring 2001.

	doe05.pdf (PDF, 567 KB) Audit Report: Status of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, DOE/IG-173, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the Inspector General, Office of Audit Services, December 2005.

	doe06.pdf (PDF, 1,9 MB) Report to Congress: Spent Nuclear Fuel Recycling Program Plan, U.S. Department of Energy, May 2006.

	doe06b.pdf (PDF, 523 KB) Draft Environmental Assessment for U-233 Stabilization and Building 3019 Complex Shutdown at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. DOE/EA-1574, U. S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, December 2006.

	doe06e.pdf (PDF, 1,2 MB) Complex 2030: An Infrastructure Planning Scenario for a Nuclear Weapons Complex Able to Meet the Threats of the 21st Century - "Getting the Job Done," DOE/NA-0013, U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs, 23 October 2006.

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	euratom.pdf (PDF, 4,6 MB) Treaty Establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), Brussels, 17 April 1957.

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	ger96.pdf (PDF, 8,2 MB) M. S. Gerber, The Plutonium Production Story at the Hanford Site: Processes and Facilities History, WHC-MR-0521, Revision 0, U.S. Department of Energy, June 1996.

	gfmr06.pdf (PDF, 3,3 MB) Global Fissile Material Report 2006, International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), Princeton, NJ, September 2006.

	gfmr07.pdf (PDF, 9,2 MB) Global Fissile Material Report 2007, International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), Princeton, NJ, October 2007.

	gla77.pdf (PDF, 40,1 MB) S. Glasstone and P. J. Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Third Edition, U.S. Department of Energy, 1977.

	gov97.pdf (PDF, 1,4 MB) Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation Concerning Cooperation Regarding Plutonium Production Reactors, 1997.

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	han44.pdf (PDF, 11,7 MB) Hanford Technical Manual Section B, HW-10475 B, General Electric, Hanford Atomic Production Operation, Richland, WA, May 1944 -- incomplete document.

	heu93.pdf (PDF, 39 KB) Russian-U.S. Agreement Concerning the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons (Russian-U.S. HEU Agreement), 1993.

	hip86.pdf (PDF, 1,7 MB) F. von Hippel, D. H. Albright, and B. G. Levi, Quantities of Fissile Materials in US and Soviet Nuclear Weapons Arsenals, PU-CEES Report No. 168, Princeton, NJ, July 1986.

	hol83.pdf (PDF, 686 KB) J. P. Holdren, "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons: the Connection is Dangerous," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 1983, pp. 40-45 -- document courtesy of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, www.thebulletin.org.

	hol97.pdf (PDF, 353 KB) J. P. Holdren and E. P. Velikhov, co-chairs, Final Report of the US-Russia Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, D.C., 1997.

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	ipp90.pdf (PDF, 6,6 MB) T. Ippolito Jr., Effects of Variation of Uranium Enrichment on Nuclear Submarine Reactor Design, M.S. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990.

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	jas99.pdf (PDF, 168 KB) S. Drell and R. Jeanloz (Study Leaders), Remanufacture, Jason Report JSR-99-300, MITRE Corporation, October 1999.

	jas06.pdf (PDF, 411 KB) R. J. Hemley and D. Meiron (Study Leaders), Pit Lifetime, Jason Report JSR-06-335, MITRE Corporation, November 2006.

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	kan89.pdf (PDF, 2,5 MB) E. Kankeleit, C. Küppers, and U. Imkeller, Report in the Usability of Reactor-Plutonium in Weapons, Translation of the German original: Bericht zur Waﬀentauglichkeit von Reaktorplutonium, IANUS Working Paper 1/1989, Darmstadt University of Technology. UCRL-TT-112792 (1993), Berkeley Scientiﬁc Translation Service, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1989.

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	lar61.pdf (PDF, 6,7 MB) E. A. G. Larson, A General Description Of The NRX Reactor, CRIO-1043 (AECL-1377), Chalk River, Ontario, July 1961.

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	ma01.pdf (PDF, 167 KB) C. Ma and F. von Hippel, "Ending the Production of Highly Enriched Uranium for Naval Reactors," Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 8, 2001, pp. 86-101.

	mil82.pdf (PDF, 3,5 MB) M. M. Miller and C. A. Eberhard, The Potential for Upgrading Safeguards at Research Reactors Fueled with Highly Enriched Uranium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prepared for The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), November 1982.

	mil84.pdf (PDF, 1,9 MB) M. M. Miller, The Potential for Upgrading Safeguards at Research Reactors Fueled with Highly Enriched Uranium: Part II, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prepared for The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), July 1984.

	mod06.pdf (PDF, 84 KB) U.K. Ministry of Defence, Historical Accounting for U.K. Defence Highly Enriched Uranium, London, March 2006.

	mod06b.pdf (PDF, 1 MB) U.K. Ministry of Defence, The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent ("White Paper"), Secretary of State for Defence and the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Cm 6994, London, December 2006.

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	new94.pdf (PDF, 4,1 MB) D. F. Newman, C. J. Gesh, E. F. Love, and S. L. Harms, Summary of Near-Term Options for Russian Plutonium Production Reactors, PNL-9982 (UC-520), Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA, July 1994.

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	onnp95.pdf (PDF, 2,2 MB) Report on the Use of Low Enriched Uranium in Naval Nuclear Propulsion, The Director of the Oﬃce of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, Report to the U.S. Congress, June 1995.

	opp46.pdf (PDF, 2,6 MB) J. R. Oppenheimer, "The International Control of Atomic Energy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 1, No. 12, 1 June 1946 -- document courtesy of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, www.thebulletin.org.

	ota93.pdf (PDF, 4,8 MB) U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Dismantling the Bomb and Managing the Nuclear Materials, OTA-O-572, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., September 1993.

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	rad06.pdf (PDF, 129 KB) S. G. Rademaker, Rising to the Challenge of Effective Multilateralism Statement to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland, May 18, 2006.

	rau06.pdf (PDF, 127 KB) T. Rauf, A Cut-off of Production of Weapon-Usable Fissionable Material: Considerations, Requirements and IAEA Capabilities, Statement at the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, 24 August 2006 -- document mirrored from www.reachingcriticalwill.org.

	rdd7.pdf (PDF, 1,9 MB) Restricted Data Declassification Decisions 1946 To The Present (RDD-7), U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Declassification, January 1, 2001 -- document reprinted from www.fas.org.

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	zen05.pdf (PDF, 1,5 MB) M. D. Zentner, G. L. Coles, and R. J. Talbert, Nuclear Proliferation Technology Trends Analysis, PNNL-14480, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, September 2005.