Nonproliferation Projects
 While
detecting and intercepting dangerous materials before they enter the
U.S. is a crucial capability, securing these materials at their
source is just as important. Overseas, Brookhaven scientists are
working to safeguard nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union
through the Laboratory’s Material Protection, Control and Accounting
Cooperative Programs Division. Focused on securing the large amounts
of highly enriched uranium and other dangerous materials stored at
formerly secret sites across Russia and the former Soviet states,
program projects include:
- Upgrading and modernizing facilities used for the storage and
disposal of nuclear materials
- Providing re-training and job placement services for the
former Soviet Union’s nuclear scientists
- Building facilities to consolidate and convert highly
enriched, weapons-usable uranium into low-enriched uranium
suitable for use as nuclear reactor fuel
- Installing operational monitoring systems at a variety of
Russian facilities, including nuclear submarine bases
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 Working with DOE’s
National Nuclear Security Administration to
prepare and implement a strategy for securing and controlling
foreign-origin radioactive sources that could be used in a dirty
bomb or radiological dispersion device.
Other major programs operated through Brookhaven’s
Nonproliferation & National Security Department include:
- Detector Development and Testing Division: Develops
advanced detectors and operates detector testing facility RADTEC.
Evaluates neutron and gamma spectra using state-of-the art
simulations, e.g., Monte Carlo codes, for detector system
sensitivity to various environmental factors, e.g., attempts to
mask special nuclear material, other sources or co-shipped
materials, scattering from air or ground, etc. These capabilities
offer cost and time effective analyses and experiments to assist
in detection system development, deployment and maintenance.
- Nonproliferation and Counterterrorism: Develops safeguards
systems and arms control verification approaches and technology to
stem the spread and reduce the danger from nuclear, chemical, and
biological weapons worldwide.
- International Safeguards: Provides technical oversight of
projects designed to strengthen the International Atomic Energy
Agency’s safeguards programs.
- Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention: Supports
nonproliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons by
providing sustainable non-weapons related jobs to Russian weapons
scientists.
Contact: Joseph Indusi,
indusi@bnl.gov
Last Modified: May 30, 2008
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