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Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/12477 SHARE Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges DETAILS 172 pages | 8.5 x 11 | PAPERBACK ISBN 978-0-309-12660-1 | DOI 10.17226/12477 CONTRIBUTORS GET THIS BOOK U.S. Committee on the Internationalization of the Civilian Nuclear Fuel Cycle; Committee on International Security and Arms Control; Policy and Global Affairs; Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board; Division on Earth and Life FIND RELATED TITLES Studies; National Academy of Sciences; National Research Council; Russian Committee on the Internationalization of the Civilian Nuclear Fuel Cycle; Russian Academy of Sciences Visit the National Academies Press at NAP.edu and login or register to get: – Access to free PDF downloads of thousands of scientific reports – 10% off the price of print titles – Email or social media notifications of new titles related to your interests – Special offers and discounts Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the National Academies Press. 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Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges COMMITTEE ON THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE CIVILIAN NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES JOHN F. AHEARNE, (Chair), Sigma XI ROBERT J. BUDNITZ, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory MATTHEW BUNN, Harvard University WILLIAM F. BURNS, Major General (USA, retired) STEVE FETTER, University of Maryland ROSE GOTTEMOELLER, Carnegie Moscow Center MILTON LEVENSON, Bechtel International (retired) COMMITTEE ON THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE CIVILIAN NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NIKOLAY P. LAVEROV, (Chair), Russian Academy of Sciences VALERY S. BEZZUBTSEV, Rostekhnadzor ALEXANDER V. BYCHKOV, Research Institute of Atomic Reactors VALENTIN B. IVANOV, Institute of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry BORIS F. MYASOEDOV, Russian Academy of Sciences VLADISLAV A. PETROV, Institute of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry MIKHAIL I. SOLONIN, Technology and Innovation Center of the TVEL Corporation National Research Council Staff MICAH D. LOWENTHAL, Study Director, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board ANNE M. HARRINGTON, Director, Committee on International Security and Arms Control RITA S. GUENTHER, Senior Program Associate, Committee on International Security and Arms Control Russian Academy of Sciences Staff YURI K. SHIYAN, Director, Office for North American Scientific Cooperation v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The so-called nuclear renaissance has increased worldwide interest in nuclear power. This potential growth also has increased, in some quarters, concern that nonproliferation considerations are not being given sufficient attention. In particular, since the introduction of many new power reactors will lead to requiring an increase in uranium enrichment services to provide the reactor fuel, the proliferation risk of adding enrichment facilities in countries that do not have them now led to proposals to provide the needed fuel without requiring new indigenous enrichment facilities. Similar concerns exist for reprocessing facilities. In 2006, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, and U.S. President George W. Bush each announced plans to assure the provision of fuel to countries that want to develop nuclear power. The proposals were aimed at dissuading these countries from building uranium enrichment plants because such plants could be used to produce weapons-usable highly enriched uranium. In the spring of 2006, members of the Committees on International Security and Arms Control of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), which have had a productive partnership for more than 25 years, met with each other, with senior officials in their respective governments, and with Director General ElBaradei to identify issues of national and international importance on which independent advice from the two academies would be useful.
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