Evaluation Of Covert Plutonium Production From Unconventional Uranium Sources

The potential for a relatively non-advanced nation to covertly acquire a significant quantity of weapons-grade plutonium using a gas-cooled, natural uranium-fueled reactor based on relatively primitive early published designed is evaluated in this article. The economic and technical issues that woul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ondrej Chvala, Steven Skutnik, Tyrone Christopher Harris, Emily Anne Frame
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Nuclear Security 2016-12-01
Series:International Journal of Nuclear Security
Online Access:https://trace.tennessee.edu/ijns/vol2/iss3/7/