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 [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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.

Contributor:

Committee on the Current Status of and Progress Toward Eliminating Highly Enriched Uranium Use in Fuel for Civilian Research and Test Reactors, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Highly enriched uranium--Security measures--United States.

Highly enriched uranium.

Nuclear reactors--Research--Security measures--United States.

Nuclear reactors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2016]

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.

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.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780309379212

0309379210

9780309379199

0309379199