THE LINKAGE OF NUCLEAR REACTORS AND NUCLEAR WEAPONSdoi:10.1016/B978-0-08-031322-1.50010-0John P. HoldrenEuropean Security
HORACE, a zero energy reactor, is now operating at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire. It is being used for the study of the nuclear characteristics of a light-water research reactor, and consists of an arrangement of enriched reactor fuel in ordinary water.. ...
Within the past five years, China has significantly expanded its ongoing nuclear modernization program by fielding more types and greater numbers of nuclear weapons than ever before. Since our prev...
The nuclear weapons program itself suffers from a fragile and aging production and R and D complex, which has been further subjected to increasing demands arising from environmental, safety, and security concerns. Problems leading to shutdowns and power reductions in the DOE production reactors ...
79, NO. 5, 329–345 https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.2023.2245260 NUCLEAR NOTEBOOK Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023 Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda and Eliana Johns ABSTRACT The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by the staff of the Federation of American Scientists' Nuclear Information ...
nuclear reactors is strongly suppressed compared with236U25. Both, official sources, e.g.26,27,28and unauthorized web sites29on nuclear weapons design are naturally scarce or impossible to verify. Yet, even though there are information sources stating that at least one nuclear weapons test using...
It is estimated that the accessible supply of U-238 would only power nuclear reactors for the next 100 years or so. Although there have been proposals for the development of “breeder reactors,” which could generate fissile material to produce an ongoing source of fuel, this technology has ...
developed nuclear power while under the umbrella of either NATO or the Soviet Union. They also claim that North Korea and Israel developed nuclear weapons without nuclear power, but that is also deceptive because both have nuclear reactors, just not commercial use of nuclear power to generate ...
2.2 Problems and concerns with fission reactors Although fission-based nuclear reactors generate huge amounts of electricity with zero greenhouse gas emissions, and thus was hailed as a solution not only to global warming but also to global energy needs, nuclear energy is now seen by many, and ...
, hidden in a container, greatly enhances the identification of threats such as explosives, fissile or toxic materials and weapons of mass destruction. Screening systems need to be designed to involve minimal operator intervention, to minimize dose to the sample, and to provide high throughput at ...