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The Nuclear Control Institute, founded in 1981, is a research and advocacy center for preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism. Non-profit and non-partisan, NCI is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization supported by philanthropic foundations and individuals.   In particular, we focus on the urgency of   eliminating atom-bomb materials (plutonium and highly enriched uranium) from civilian nuclear power and research plants; disposing of these materials from dismantled nuclear warheads without introducing them into civilian commerce. Active both at home and abroad, we play a watchdog role and engage governments and industry, international and public-interest organizations and the media in our work. Our track record indicates an impact on decisionmaking that far exceeds what might be expected of an organization of modest size. Our credo: "Be effective."

In 2003, Nuclear Control Institute was reorganized into a Web-based program operated by its founder and president, Paul Leventhal. An archive of about 300 catalogued boxes of NCIs papers, accumulated over a quarter-century of operation and supplemented by Mr. Leventhals earlier U.S. Senate papers, has been established at the National Security Archive, an affiliate of the George Washington University Library. A word-searchable electronic archive of NCIs core documents over this period is also being established on the NCI website. By means of this extensive documentation of 30-plus years of nuclear history and the continued activity of Mr. Leventhal to pursue NCIs non-proliferation proposals, the Nuclear Control Institute serves as a valuable resource to the public, the media and to nuclear specialists in government, industry and academe.

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Mailing Address Nuclear Control Institute 1000 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC, 20036 U.S.A. Business Address 6303 Broad Branch Road, Chevy Chase MD 20815 Telephone 202-822-8444 Fax 202-452-0892 E-mail mail@nci.org NCI Staff and Consultants Founder and President: Paul Leventhal Vice President: Sharon Tanzer Senior Policy Analyst: Alan Kuperman Counsel: Eldon V.C. Greenberg NCI Board of Directors Paul Leventhal Peter Bradford Roger Richter Sharon Tanzer Emeritus Directors David Cohen Victor Gilinsky Denis Hayes Julian Koenig Deceased Directors Rear Admiral Thomas Davies (USN Ret.) Dr. Theodore B. Taylor Barbara Tuchman

       
   

Nuclear Terrorism Threat Could terrorists build a bomb with stolen plutonium or highly enriched uranium? Are reactors now adequately protected against sabotage? Here's what the experts say.

NCI conference To mark its 20th anniversary year, NCI convened a one-day conference to explore the need for nuclear power and its linkage with the proliferation of nuclear weapons. .... Visit our conference site for online video interviews, videotapes, speeches, papers, programe & more!

   

Plutonium & Reprocessing

 

Getting Rid of Military Plutonium Using plutonium from bombs as fuel for nuclear power reactors invites theft by terrorists and outlaw states. How to stop this latest attempt at plutonium commerce: Directly dispose of plutonium by burying it with nuclear waste deep in the earth.

 

IRAQ: STILL A NUCLEAR THREAT All of Iraq's nuclear scientists are still in place. None of the nuclear-bomb components they built before the Gulf War have been found. If Iraq could steal or buy plutonium or bomb-grade uranium, Saddam could have the Bomb in short order.

   

India-Pakistan Nuclear Central India conducted five nuclear tests. Pakistan followed with five tests of its own. Who's next? Check this collection of the best on the Web on this grave nuclear crisis.

 

STOP TRADE IN BOMB GRADE URANIUM. With bomb-grade, high-enriched uranium (HEU), a student could make a bomb powerful enough to destroy a city. Low-enriched uranium (LEU) can't be made into bombs. Which fuel do you want in university reactors?

 

Radioactive Sea Shipments Japan, Britain & France are beginning to ship plutonium wastes by sea in containers that can't survive a sinking. What can be done to stop them?

 

Plutonium Air Shipments By the speck, plutonium can kill. By the ton, it will be flown in casks that can't survive a plane crash. Why?

   

China was the "single most important supplier of equipment and technology for weapons of mass destruction" and a major nuclear supplier to Iran and Pakistan in the second half of 1996, the CIA recently concluded. Yet, President Clinton is preparing to make the non-proliferation certifications required to clear the way for U.S. sales of nuclear reactors and fuel to China. Does nuclear trade with China make sense at this time?

 

Is America's fear of nuclear power irrational?

 

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