IPFM Blog

Archive: Fissile material cutoff and elimination

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