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Improving the Assessment of the Proliferation Risk of Nuclear Fuel Cycles (2013) / Chapter Skim
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1 Background and Introduction
Pages 15-18

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... The NNSA also funds R&D in nuclear safeguards technology to detect and impede misuse of civilian nuclear technology and material for military purposes. The missions of DOE-NE and NNSA occasionally can be in conflict because DOE-NE is focused on developing and deploying future nuclear energy systems and technologies whereas the NNSA is focused on minimizing and managing proliferation risks of nuclear energy.
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... . The committee's 12 members have a breadth of experience, including risk assessment and communication methods, proliferation metrics and research, nuclear fuel cycle and power plant design and engineering, international nuclear nonproliferation and national security policy, and nuclear weapons design.
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... Proliferation resistance is one factor among many that contribute to proliferation risk, and most technical assessment methodologies assess proliferation resistance, rather than risk. The International Atomic Energy Agency defines proliferation resistance as the characteristics of a nuclear energy system that impede the diversion or undeclared production of nuclear material or misuse of technology by states in order to acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.
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... It ends with a discussion of the types of questions that can be addressed by technical assessment of proliferation resistance. Chapter 3 describes historical and existing methods for assessing proliferation risk, with a particular focus on predefined framework methodologies, identifies their strengths and weaknesses, and discusses their utility to decision makers.
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