Research Catalog

Title

Reducing the use of highly enriched uranium in civilian research reactors / Committee on the Current Status of and Progress Toward Eliminating Highly Enriched Uranium Use in Fuel for Civilian Research and Test Reactors, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Sciences, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Author

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Current Status of and Progress Toward Eliminating Highly Enriched Uranium Use in Fuel for Civilian Research and Test Reactors, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Publication

• Washington, DC : the National Academies Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• National Research Council (U.S.). Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Earth and Life Studies.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)

Description

xii, 192 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The continued presence of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian installations such as research reactors poses a threat to national and international security. Minimization, and ultimately elimination, of HEU in civilian research reactors worldwide has been a goal of U.S. policy and programs since 1978. Today, 74 civilian research reactors around the world, including 8 in the United States, use or are planning to use HEU fuel. Since the last National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on this topic in 2009, 28 reactors have been either shut down or converted from HEU to low enriched uranium fuel. Despite this progress, the large number of remaining HEU-fueled reactors demonstrates that an HEU minimization program continues to be needed on a worldwide scale. Reducing the Use of Highly Enriched Uranium in Civilian Research Reactors assesses the status of and progress toward eliminating the worldwide use of HEU fuel in civilian research and test reactors"--Publisher description.

Subjects

• Nuclear reactors > Research > Security measures > United States
• Highly enriched uranium > Security measures > United States

Note

• Summary of Meeting on "Updating and Optimizing a List of Civilian Research and Test Reactors that Operate Using HEU Fuel", held July 27-29, 2015 in Vienna Austria.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134).

Contents

Background and study task -- Research reactors currently using HEU fuel -- Research reactors and their uses -- Technical obstacles to conversion -- Nontechnical obstacles to reactor conversion -- Conversion program: status and management -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A: Statement of task -- Appendix B: Biographical sketches of Committee members -- Appendix C: Presentations and visits -- Appendix D: Acronyms -- Appendix E: Joint International Atomic Energy-Academies Meeting synopsis -- Appendix F: HEU-fueled reactors outside the scope of the study -- Appendix G: Glossary.

ISBN

• 9780309379182
• 0309379180
• 9780309379199 (canceled/invalid)
• 0309379199 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocn942811618
• 942811618
• SCSB-5842927

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Columbia University Libraries