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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 3: Nuclear Verification and Disarmament Research

AGA 3.4: Talk

Thursday, March 10, 2016, 12:00–12:30, H3

Draft of a verification regime for the detection of clandestine reprocessing plants — •Michael Schoeppner — Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security

Nuclear reprocessing plants are likely to emit krypton-85 in the process of separating plutonium from spent fuel. The capability to find clandestine facilities is of great interest for the verification of the NPT, a future FMCT, or a future regional nuclear-weapon-free zone, e.g. in the Middle East. In this work the emissions from known facilities are compared to emissions that would most likely be emitted from clandestine facilities. From this analysis it is derived how it is possible detect the krypton-85 fluctuations from clandestine facilities in the atmosphere. Different scenarios and boundary conditions are explored to assess the requirements for a global verification regime.