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Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation (Hardcover)
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Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security
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Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical
and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat
to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment
technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but
important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to
acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the
proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium
enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous
diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely
capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As
long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically
advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to
weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed
dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment
techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation
of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the
world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new
techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the
commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in
which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most
important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some
of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of
the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant
to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the
world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and
critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in
the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states
most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of
nuclear weapons.
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