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Back Innovative Methods for Assessing Domestic Nuclear Security Risks

Fiscal Year 2013
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Operations Research
Investigator(s) Alderson, Jr., David L.
Sponsor National Nuclear Security Administration (Other-Fed)
Summary The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is committed to maintaining a distinct advantage in achieving its vision of technical dominance in the 21st century. In the Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap, delivered to Congress in April2010, the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy defined four overarching Research and Development Objectives that are aimed at squarely confronting the challenges to expanded use of nuclear energy. The fourth of these is to "understand and minimize the risks of nuclear proliferation and terrorism." The objective of this project is (I) to assess the risk of the nuclear fuel cycle to attack by an intelligent adversary intent on obtaining material to be used in an improvised nuclear device and (2) to explore options for making the fuel cycle resilient to such attacks.
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