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The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium

Published:2024-06-07 Issue:6700 Volume:384 Page:1071-1073
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Kemp R. Scott¹,Lyman Edwin S.²,Deinert Mark R.³,Garwin Richard L.⁴,von Hippel Frank N.⁵

Affiliation:

1. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

2. Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, USA.

3. Nuclear Science and Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA.

4. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.

5. Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Abstract

Recent promotion of new reactor technologies appears to disregard decades-old concerns about nuclear proliferation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.ado8693

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