Strategies to balance energy security with non-proliferation assurances

All small reactors without on-site refuelling are being designed to offer an enhanced energy security in operation with the outsourced front-end and back-end fuel cycle services [Pg.46]

Shipments of whole reactors or whole core fuel loads could then employ item accountancy procedures and Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring. All bulk handling of fissile material (enrichment, fabrication, reprocessing, and refabrication) could be conducted in a limited number of centralized facilities that can serve many hundreds of small reactors. These centralized facilities could operate under international safeguards oversight . [Pg.46]

Altogether, the above mentioned features may help better balance energy security with nonproliferation assurances. [Pg.46]

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