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Coles, Garill, Gastelum, Zoe, Brothers, Alan, Thompson, Sandy |
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Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting; 2009, p1-9, 9p, 4 Diagrams, 2 Charts |
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Methodologies for assessing proliferation risk are often focused around the inherent vulnerability of nuclear energy systems and associated safeguards. For example an accepted approach involves ways to measure the intrinsic and extrinsic barriers to potential proliferation. This paper describes a preliminary investigation into the use of social and cultural information to improve proliferation assessment and advance current approaches to assessing nuclear material diversion. Proliferation resistance assessment, safeguard assessments and related studies typically create technical information about the vulnerability of a nuclear energy system to diversion of nuclear material. The purpose of this research project is to find ways to integrate social information with technical information by explicitly considering the role of culture, groups and/or individuals as factors that impact the possibility of proliferation. When final, this work is expected to describe and demonstrate the utility of social science modeling in proliferation and proliferation risk assessments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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