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Archive: Fissile material cutoff and elimination

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