Proliferation Implications of Uranium Enrichment Technologies. Volume 1

摘要

This report is the first of two volumes on the proliferation assessment of enrichment technologies, which were prepared by SAI as part of the Department of Energy's NASAP activity of 1977-1980. The objective of this volume is to present in unclassified form the conclusions of a study of the nuclear weapons proliferation potential of the commercial enrichment technologies that now exist or are under development. A classified set of technical appendices, which is being published simultaneously with this report as Volume II, contains descriptions of the technologies of the systems, and detailed justifications of the numerical data that is summarized in unclassified form in this report. Studies of one significant developmental technology, chemical exchange, are still being conducted; therefore, a definitive account is not included. (ERA citation 10:012342)