Control Preferences: A Study of Cueing Factors in the Determination of Diversion Safeguards Policy Making (Diversion Safeguards Program)

摘要

The outlooks of elites in the control of nuclear material were analyzed by means of results from a survey research questionnaire. Personal interviews were conducted with about 800 persons for the U.S. domestic survey and about the same number for the international survey. Degrees of stringency in control were determined on each of 14 topics of control. Intercorrelations between these responses are tabulated as well as evaluated in a least-space analysis. Governmental respondents were found to cue on retention of control and industrial respondents were found to cue on intrusiveness. In the international survey, the stringency of control desired increased with the amount of installed nuclear power of the country of respondent. Texts of the survey instrument are presented.