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Archive: Fissile material cutoff and elimination

  1. France can use its existing stock of fissile materials to produce new nuclear warheads
  2. A step toward the disposition of UK civilian plutonium
  3. Russia withdraws from the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement
  4. US Department of Energy makes plutonium available to industry
  5. United Kingdom allocates £154 million to prepare for plutonium disposal
  6. US begins shipping excess plutonium to WIPP for disposition
  7. No clear path forward for Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty
  8. US debates its future needs for enriched uranium for military and other purposes
  9. Russia uses civilian reactor-grade plutonium to produce MOX fuel for BN-800
  10. Conference on Disarmament fails to re-establish subsidiary bodies
  11. NRC terminates construction authorization for the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  12. New IPFM report on remote detection of undeclared reprocessing
  13. UN high-level fissile material cut-off treaty expert preparatory group report: little prospect for progress
  14. Subsidiary Body of the Conference on Disarmament discusses Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty
  15. U.S. Department of Energy takes steps to halt construction of partially finished MOX plant at Savannah River Site
  16. WIPP facility receives first shipment since reopening
  17. United States to ship neptunium to Canada as part of Pu-238 production
  18. High Level FMCT Expert Preparatory Group begins its work
  19. United States asks IAEA to monitor dilute and dispose steps for 6 tons of plutonium
  20. U.S. Congress sustains MOX facility construction
  21. Russia suspends implementation of plutonium disposition agreement
  22. Disposition of plutonium in Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
  23. Proliferation assessment of third generation laser uranium enrichment technology
  24. Dealing with Russia's concerns about the isotopics of disposed plutonium
  25. Russia raises concerns about changes in U.S. plutonium disposition plan
  26. United States releases an update of its HEU inventory
  27. Plutonium from Japan is shipped to the United States
  28. United States attempts to unblock fissile material treaty negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament
  29. Experts write to U.S. Secretary of Energy Moniz to support termination of the MOX project
  30. United States brings plutonium from Germany, Switzerland, and Japan
  31. United States to discontinue construction of MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  32. Could the U.S. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant go critical if more plutonium were disposed in it?
  33. United States to dispose of 6 MT of weapon-grade plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
  34. Chinese scholars express concern about Japan's fissile materials
  35. Contractor's attempt to justify high cost of U.S. MOX program falls short
  36. GAO report evaluates U.S. efforts to secure vulnerable nuclear materials
  37. "Red Team" report confirms high cost of MOX option for disposal of U.S. excess plutonium
  38. Independent review on escalating MOX plant costs and DOE reversal of MOX option for surplus plutonium
  39. IPFM presents Global Fissile Material Report 2015 at the NPT Review Conference
  40. United States has no preferred alternative for disposition of surplus plutonium
  41. U.S. MOX report reveals major cost estimate increases
  42. Russia removed weapon-grade plutonium from Seversk
  43. Alternatives to MOX: a new report by the International Panel on Fissile Materials
  44. France submitted draft fissile material cutoff treaty to the Conference on Disarmament
  45. Savannah River MOX Plant secures 2015 funding but future of program remains in doubt
  46. U.S. MOX plant construction license extended
  47. Unmaking the Bomb: IPFM presentation at the UN First Committee
  48. No changes in U.S. civilian plutonium stock in 2013
  49. Pakistan outlines scope for FM(C)T intended to establish parity with India
  50. Damning U.S. Department of Energy audit on cost and schedule overruns at the MOX Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site
  51. IPFM Presentation at 2014 NPT Prepcom: "Next Steps in Increasing Transparency of Nuclear Warhead and Fissile Material Stocks for Nuclear Disarmament"
  52. United States and Japan to remove plutonium and HEU from Fast Critical Assembly
  53. United States puts MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility on cold standby
  54. Further increase in the cost of U.S. plutonium disposition program
  55. Possible changes in U.S. and Russian excess plutonium disposition programs
  56. Japan to return plutonium used in critical assembly to the United States
  57. Last HEU-LEU program shipment to leave Russia
  58. FOIA document indicates cost of disposal of U.S. plutonium as waste cheaper than MOX
  59. Transfer of Georgian HEU spent fuel from Dounreay to Savannah River Site
  60. States' views on a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons
  61. United States to look for more efficient plutonium disposition options
  62. IPFM releases report on transparency in nuclear disarmament
  63. The cost of the U.S. MOX plant is estimated to be $7.7 billion
  64. The cost of U.S. MOX plant reached $6.8 billion
  65. United States begins shipments of plutonium from Savannah River to WIPP