THE LAB-TO-INSTITUTE COMPONENTS—RF VIEW

Short reviews of these investigations were contributed earlier to the Conference SPECTRUM 96 [1] and the Fourth Workshop on Safety of Nuclear Materials Management in Amarillo [2], 

This report is devoted to projects now underway and to the prospects of joint research development. 

Recently, beginning in autumn 1997, two investigations were started on the incorporation of excess plutonium into glasses or ceramics for disposition of nuclear material. The customer for these works is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Experimental studies are carried out in Russia at V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute (KRI) and A.A. Bochvar All-Russian Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIINM). 

The task of studies carried out at KRI and VNIINM consists of selecting an optimum composition for incorporation of plutonium. Results of this work will be 

Jardine and M.M. Moshkov (eds.), Nuclear Materials Safety Management, Vol. II, 221-225. ( ) 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers. 

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