Plutonium and HEU Disposition

Selected Publications and Presentations:

 

Matthew Bunn and Gary Samore, “Cancel the Plutonium Fuel Factory,” The Hill, July 18, 2016.

Matthew Bunn, "Plutonium Disposition: What are We Trying to Accomplish?" presentation, Disposal of Surplus Plutonium in WIPP: Data Gathering Session for National Academies Study, Washington, DC, November 29, 2017.

Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences, Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1994). 275 pp. (Matthew Bunn, Study Director.)

Panel on Reactor-Related Options for the Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences, Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: Reactor-Related Options (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1995). 418 pp. (Matthew Bunn, Study Director.)

Matthew Bunn and Anatoli Diakov, “Disposition of Excess Highly Enriched Uranium,” in Global Fissile Materials Report 2007 (Princeton, NJ: International Panel on Fissile Materials, October 2007), pp. 24-32.

Matthew Bunn and Anatoli Diakov, “Disposition of Excess Plutonium,” in Global Fissile Materials Report 2007 (Princeton, NJ: International Panel on Fissile Materials, October 2007), pp. 33-42.

Matthew Bunn, “Disposition of Excess Plutonium: Rethinking Security Objectives and Technological Approaches,” Testimony before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives, July 26, 2006.

Matthew Bunn, “Expanded and Accelerated HEU Downblending: Designing Options to Serve the Interests of All Parties,” in Proceedings of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management 49th Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tenn., July 14-17,  2008 (Deerfield, IL: INMM, 2008).

Matthew Bunn and John P. Holdren, “Managing Military Uranium and Plutonium in the United States and the Former Soviet Union,” Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Vol. 22, 1997, pp. 403-486.

Holdren, John P., and Evgeniy P. Velikhov, Co-chairmen, U.S.-Russian Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium. “US-Russia Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: Final Report.” Office of Science and Technology Policy, June 1, 1997.

Nonproliferation and Arms Control Assessment of Weapons-Usable Fissile Material Storage and Excess Plutonium Disposition Alternatives, DOE/NN-0007 (Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy, January 1997). 232 pp. (Matthew Bunn, principal author.)

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