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Archive: Fissile material cutoff and elimination

  1. Savannah River Site completes "downblending" of Swiss plutonium
  2. United Kingdom asks Urenco to support its military enrichment program
  3. US Department of Energy in negotiations with five companies over surplus plutonium
  4. The 2025 update on fissile material stocks
  5. France can use its existing stock of fissile materials to produce new nuclear warheads
  6. A step toward the disposition of UK civilian plutonium
  7. Russia withdraws from the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement
  8. US Department of Energy makes plutonium available to industry
  9. United Kingdom allocates £154 million to prepare for plutonium disposal
  10. US begins shipping excess plutonium to WIPP for disposition
  11. No clear path forward for Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty
  12. US debates its future needs for enriched uranium for military and other purposes
  13. Russia uses civilian reactor-grade plutonium to produce MOX fuel for BN-800
  14. Conference on Disarmament fails to re-establish subsidiary bodies
  15. NRC terminates construction authorization for the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  16. New IPFM report on remote detection of undeclared reprocessing
  17. UN high-level fissile material cut-off treaty expert preparatory group report: little prospect for progress
  18. Subsidiary Body of the Conference on Disarmament discusses Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty
  19. U.S. Department of Energy takes steps to halt construction of partially finished MOX plant at Savannah River Site
  20. WIPP facility receives first shipment since reopening
  21. United States to ship neptunium to Canada as part of Pu-238 production
  22. High Level FMCT Expert Preparatory Group begins its work
  23. United States asks IAEA to monitor dilute and dispose steps for 6 tons of plutonium
  24. U.S. Congress sustains MOX facility construction
  25. Russia suspends implementation of plutonium disposition agreement
  26. Disposition of plutonium in Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
  27. Proliferation assessment of third generation laser uranium enrichment technology
  28. Dealing with Russia's concerns about the isotopics of disposed plutonium
  29. Russia raises concerns about changes in U.S. plutonium disposition plan
  30. United States releases an update of its HEU inventory
  31. Plutonium from Japan is shipped to the United States
  32. United States attempts to unblock fissile material treaty negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament
  33. Experts write to U.S. Secretary of Energy Moniz to support termination of the MOX project
  34. United States brings plutonium from Germany, Switzerland, and Japan
  35. United States to discontinue construction of MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  36. Could the U.S. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant go critical if more plutonium were disposed in it?
  37. United States to dispose of 6 MT of weapon-grade plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
  38. Chinese scholars express concern about Japan's fissile materials
  39. Contractor's attempt to justify high cost of U.S. MOX program falls short
  40. GAO report evaluates U.S. efforts to secure vulnerable nuclear materials
  41. "Red Team" report confirms high cost of MOX option for disposal of U.S. excess plutonium
  42. Independent review on escalating MOX plant costs and DOE reversal of MOX option for surplus plutonium
  43. IPFM presents Global Fissile Material Report 2015 at the NPT Review Conference
  44. United States has no preferred alternative for disposition of surplus plutonium
  45. U.S. MOX report reveals major cost estimate increases
  46. Russia removed weapon-grade plutonium from Seversk
  47. Alternatives to MOX: a new report by the International Panel on Fissile Materials
  48. France submitted draft fissile material cutoff treaty to the Conference on Disarmament
  49. Savannah River MOX Plant secures 2015 funding but future of program remains in doubt
  50. U.S. MOX plant construction license extended
  51. Unmaking the Bomb: IPFM presentation at the UN First Committee
  52. No changes in U.S. civilian plutonium stock in 2013
  53. Pakistan outlines scope for FM(C)T intended to establish parity with India
  54. Damning U.S. Department of Energy audit on cost and schedule overruns at the MOX Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site
  55. IPFM Presentation at 2014 NPT Prepcom: "Next Steps in Increasing Transparency of Nuclear Warhead and Fissile Material Stocks for Nuclear Disarmament"
  56. United States and Japan to remove plutonium and HEU from Fast Critical Assembly
  57. United States puts MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility on cold standby
  58. Further increase in the cost of U.S. plutonium disposition program
  59. Possible changes in U.S. and Russian excess plutonium disposition programs
  60. Japan to return plutonium used in critical assembly to the United States
  61. Last HEU-LEU program shipment to leave Russia
  62. FOIA document indicates cost of disposal of U.S. plutonium as waste cheaper than MOX
  63. Transfer of Georgian HEU spent fuel from Dounreay to Savannah River Site
  64. States' views on a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons
  65. United States to look for more efficient plutonium disposition options
  66. IPFM releases report on transparency in nuclear disarmament
  67. The cost of the U.S. MOX plant is estimated to be $7.7 billion
  68. The cost of U.S. MOX plant reached $6.8 billion
  69. United States begins shipments of plutonium from Savannah River to WIPP