Tyurin, Evgeni

Specialized State Designing Institute, GSPl 8a, Novoryazanskaya str., Moscow, Russia 

The G7 Moscow summit in April 1996 on nuclear matters provided a political framework to deal with one of the most significant challenges facing the nuclear industry today—find a solution to the weapons-grade fissile material disposition issue resulting from the disarmament efforts by both the United States and Russia. 

European experience has shown that the transformation of plutonium (Pu) into mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel is a very efficient, safe, nonproliferating and, under certain circumstances, economically effective solution. 

In order to improve both the speed of the disarmament process and its economical feasibility, it is a common understanding that existing experience and technologies—to the extent possible—should be used. The French and German experience gained in more than 20 years of industrial MOX fabrication and 

Jardine and MM. Moshkov (eds.). Nuclear Materials Safety Management, Vol. II, 53-60. (c) 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers. 

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