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SKI Report 2004:15 Eliminating Stockpiles of Highly Enriched Uranium Options for an Action Agenda in Co-operation with the Russian Federation Report submitted to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Gunnar Arbman Francesco Calogero Paolo Cotta-Ramusino Lars van Dassen Maurizio Martellini Morten Bremer Mærli Alexander Nikitin Jan Prawitz Lars Wredberg April 2004 SKI Project Number 9032 This report concerns a study which has been conducted for the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI). The conclusions and viewpoints presented in the report are those of the author/authors and do not necessarily coincide with those of the SKI.
Table of Content Foreword and acknowledgements..........................................................................4 Executive summary………………………………………………………………..5 Background…………………………………………………………………5 Proposed HEU elimination scheme………………………………………...6 Scope of the study and the prospects for Russian HEU elimination……….7 Chapter 1: Introduction…………………………………………………………..8 HEU elimination and the international security agenda……………………9 Objectives and structure of the study……………………………………….9 Chapter 2: Different perspectives on HEU elimination…………………...…...11 Russian HEU considerations………………………………………………11 The prospects of additional HEU excess declarations…………………….12 Chapter 3: HEU threat assessment…………………………………………..….13 Production of crude nuclear explosive devices with HEU………………...14 Effects of crude nuclear explosive devices with HEU…………………….16 The HEU stocks……………………………………………………………17 Past HEU diversion…………………………………………………….......19 Chapter 4: On-going and proposed HEU elimination work……………..…….21 The HEU-deal……………………………………………………………...21 Spin-offs from the HEU-deal……………………………………………....22 HEU elimination work by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)…………....22 Report by the Federation of American Scientists: Closing the Gaps…........23 Chapter 5: Technical aspects of HEU elimination…………...…………………24 Preferred HEU elimination approach………………………………………25 Russian HEU infrastructure………………………………………………..26 Russian HEU potentially available for elimination………………………..28 Russian de-enrichment capacities………………………………………….29 HEU elimination costs……………………………………………………..29 HEU elimination verification and transparency…………………………...30 HEU measurements in practice……………………………………....……31 Chapter 6: Conclusions…………………………………………………….....….33 Appendix I: The members of the HEU Elimination Study Group……………34 Appendix II: The meetings and work of the HEU Elimination Study Group………………………………………………………………37 3
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