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Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges

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National Academy of Sciences
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Abstract

Following the proposals for nuclear fuel assurance of International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, former Russian President Vladimir V.
Putin, and U.S. President George W. Bush, joint committees of the Russian Academy of
Sciences (RAS) and the U.S. National Academies (NAS) were formed to address these and other
fuel assurance concepts and their links to nonproliferation goals. The joint committees also
addressed many technology issues relating to the fuel assurance concepts. This report provides
background information and support for the following consensus findings and recommendations
of the joint committees:

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