Management and disposition of excess weapons plutonium [[electronic resource] ] : reactor-related options / / Panel on Reactor-Related Options for the Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium [and] Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456006203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1995
• ISBN: 1-280-19351-4; 9786610193516; 0-309-58737-9; 0-585-02540-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (436 p.)
• Disciplina: 621.48/38
• Soggetti: Radioactive waste disposal - Management; Plutonium - Isotopes; Nuclear weapons - Environmental aspects - United States; Surplus military property - United States - Management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-396).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""THE SPENT FUEL STANDARD""; ""Promising and Unpromising Options for Meeting the Spent Fuel Standard""; ""The Leading-Candidate Options: Specific Cases and Their Timing""; ""OTHER ASPECTS OF SECURITY""; ""ECONOMIC COMPARISONS""; ""ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH (ES&H)""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Parallel Project-Oriented Programs""; ""Working with Russia""; ""The Longer Term""; ""REFERENCES""; ""1 Introduction""; ""ROAD MAP OF THE REPORT""; ""UNCERTAINTIES""; ""GOALS, TIMING, AND RELATED FACTORS""""The Importance of Timing""; ""Cost and Other Objectives""; ""U.S. AND RUSSIAN PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION: DIFFERENCES AND LINKAGES""; ; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Background""; ""PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY OF NUCLEAR FISSION""; ""Fission and Chain Reactions""; ""Reactor Cooling and Electricity Generation""; ""Energetics and Fuel Consumption""; ""Fuel Preparation, Refueling, and Reprocessing""; ""Preparation""; ""Refueling""; ""Reprocessing""; ""Some Differences Between Plutonium- and Uranium-Based Reactor Fuels""; ""Some Relevant Aspects of Weapon Science""; ""CLASSES OF DISPOSITION OPTIONS""""PRESENT AND FUTURE FISSILE MATERIAL STOCKPILES""; ""Excess Weapons Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Total World Plutonium and HEU Stockpiles""; ""Military Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Civilian Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Projected Plutonium Stocks in the Year 2000""; ""HEU Stockpiles""; ""WORLD NUCLEAR-ENERGY SYSTEMS RELEVANT TO PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION""; ""Nuclear-Power Plant Types and Numbers""; ""Civilian Plutonium Separation and Use""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Criteria for Comparing Disposition Options""; ""CRITERIA RELATED TO SECURITY AND TIMING""; ""The Context for Security Concerns and Criteria""""Specific Security Concerns and Threat Characteristics""; ""A Matrix Scheme for Characterizing Options""; ""Start Dates""; ""End Dates""; ""Integrated Inventory""; ""Dilution""; ""Intrinsic Barriers""; ""Implementation-Dependent Barriers""; ""The Threat and Vulnerability Interaction""; ""Criteria for Choice""; ""ISSUES AND CRITERIA IN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVES""; ""Principles and Pitfalls in Cost Comparisons""; ""Inflation and the Real Cost of Money""; ""Property Taxes and Insurance""; ""Costs of Land, Materials, Labor, and Purchased Components""""Indirect Construction Costs""; ""Contingency""; ""Interest on Preoperational Investments""; ""Comprehensiveness""; ""Net Versus Gross Costs and Revenues and the Treatment of Sunk Costs""; ""Operational Lifetime of Facilities""; ""ISSUES AND CRITERIA RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH""; ""Proposed ES&H Criteria for Disposition of Weapons Plutonium""; ""Rationale for the Proposed Criteria""; ""The Main ES&H Issues in Weapons Plutonium Disposition""; ""OTHER CONSIDERATIONS""; ""Public Acceptability""; ""Institutional Acceptability""