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U.S. HEU-Fueled Research Reactors Need
Greater Security and Expedited Conversion,
Not Russian HEU Imports
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Paper by NCI President Dr. Edwin Lyman and Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Alan Kuperman, presented at the 24th International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR) in Bariloche, Argentina
(Nov. 5, 2002)
The Future of Immobilization Under the U.S.-Russian Plutonium Disposition Agreement (Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, Paper Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Indian Wells, CA, July 18, 2001)
Overview of IAEA Nuclear Inspections in Iraq  (June 14, 2001)
Nuclear Control Institute Comments for Sellafield Mixed-Oxide Fuel Plant (SMP) Consultation  Steven Dolley, NCI Research Director, and Paul Leventhal, NCI President, May 23, 2001
Nuclear Control Institute Comments on the Scope and Content of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Environmental Impact Statement for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility
Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, May 21, 2001
Statement of Edwin Lyman, PhD., NCI Scientific Director (Nuclear Regulatory Commission Briefing on Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Programs and Performance, May 10, 2001)
Plutonium Fuel and Ice Condenser Reactors: A Dangerous Combination Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, October 19, 2000
Duke Power's Plan to Use Bomb-Plutonium Fuel Conceals Hidden Dangers and Costs Steven Dolley, NCI Research Director, October 18, 2000
NCI Comments on DOE Draft Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) PEIS Thomas Clements, NCI Executive Director, Sep. 18, 2000
Radiological Sabotage at Nuclear Power Plants: A Moving Target Set Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, and Paul Leventhal, NCI President, Presented to the 41st Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), New Orleans, LA, July 2000
NCI to National Academy of Sciences: NAS Report on Electrometallurgical Processing of Spent Fuel "Misleading," Should Be Revised Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, and Paul Leventhal, NCI President, April 21, 2000
 
NAS reply to NCI, May 8, 2000
Disposal of Weapons Plutonium in the U.S. and Russia: Issues and Options for the G-8 Steven Dolley, NCI Research Director, Issue Brief for G-8 Okinawa Summit, July 17, 2000
The Sea Shipment of Radioactive Materials: Safety and Environmental Concerns Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, Presented to the Conference on the Carriage of Ultrahazardous Radioactive Cargo by Sea: Implications and Responses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 18-19, 1999
A Critique of Physical Protection Standards for Transport of Irradiated Materials Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, Presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Phoenix, AZ, July 1999
The Safety Risks of Using Mixed-Oxide Fuels in Russias VVER-1000 Reactors: An Overview Report by Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, May 20, 2000
 
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Russian Language Version (Adobe Acrobat PDF file)
Duke Power's Plan to Use Bomb-Plutonium Fuel Conceals Hidden Dangers and Costs Steven Dolley, NCI Research Director, NCI Fact Sheet, March 8, 2000
NCI and IEER: NRC's MOX Fuel Plant Review Plan Must Include Quality-Control Criteria Letter from Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, and Arjun Makhijani, president, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, to US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, March 27, 2000
New Iraq Inspection Regime Must Answer All Unresolved Questions About Saddam's Nuclear Weapons Program
Paul Leventhal, NCI President, Testimony before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 22, 2000
East Asia's Spent Fuel Dilemma Paul Leventhal, NCI President, presented to the 2000 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference, Washington, DC, March 16, 2000
"NCI Advertising Insert for Takahama, Japan, village newspaper, January 18, 2000" Open Letter to Mayor Riichi Imai, the Town Council of Takahama and All Citizens of Takahama
 
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Japanese Language Version (translation)
"The Impact of the Use of Mixed-Oxide Fuel on the Potential for Severe Nuclear Plant Accidents in Japan" Report by Edwin S. Lyman, PhD, NCI Scientific Director, October 1999
 
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Japanese Language Version (translation)
   
 
"International Law Permits Panama to Prohibit Shipments of Ultrahazardous Radioactive Materials Through the Panama Canal" Professor Jon M. Van Dyke, University of Hawai'i Law School, and Eldon V.C. Greenberg, NCI Counsel, January 14, 2000
 
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Spanish Language Version (translation)
The Dangers of Shipping Vitrified High Level Waste: An Update Dr. Edwin S. Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, January 10, 2000
NCI to Energy Secretary Richardson: ATW Program Should Be Reviewed for Proliferation Risks Edwin S. Lyman, PhD, NCI Scientific Director, Letter to Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, November 19, 1999
The Impact of the Use of Mixed-Oxide Fuel on the Potential for Severe Nuclear Plant Accidents in Japan Edwin S. Lyman, PhD, NCI Scientific Director, October 1999
A Level-Playing Field for Medical Isotope Production -- How to Phase Out Reliance on HEU Alan Kuperman, NCI senior policy analyst, Paper Presented at the the 22nd Annual International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR), Budapest, Hungary, October 1999
Understanding Japan's Nuclear Transports: The Plutonium Context Paul Leventhal and Steven Dolley, Nuclear Control Institute, Presented to the Conference on Carriage of Ultrahazardous Radioactive Cargo by Sea: Implications and Responses, Maritime Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 18, 1999
Japan's Nuclear Criticality Accident Steven Dolley, NCI Research Director, October 4, 1999
NCI Warns Niigata Prefecture, Japan, of MOX Risks Submission of the Nuclear Control Institute to the Niigata MOX Assessment, August 13, 1999
US Groups to UK Government: Don't Start Up Sellafield MOX Fuel Plant Letter from NCI and 11 other groups to UK Department of the Environment, July 21, 1999
NCI to NRC: DOE License to Export Pu Technology to Russia Should Be Denied Letter from Tom Clements, NCI Executive Director, to Nuclear Regulatory Commission, June 30, 1999
NCI Comments on DOE's Supplement to the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Draft Environmental Impact Statement Comments by Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, June 28, 1999
Statement of Paul L. Leventhal and Alan J. Kuperman, on behalf of the Nuclear Control Institute, on the proposed export of highly enriched uranium to Canada Presented to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, June 16, 1999
NCI Testifies on Vulnerability of Nuclear Power Plants to Terrorists Testimony of Paul Leventhal on behalf of the Nuclear Control Institute on the Recommendations of the NRC Safeguards Performance Task Force, Presented to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, May 5, 1999
Transcript of NRC 5/5/99 Meeting on Safeguards

Performance
Open Letter to IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei on Japan's Plutonium Program
Nuclear Control Institute, Citizens Nuclear Information Center, Greenpeace, and Green Action, April 13, 1999
NCI Comments on the Department of Energy's Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Electrometallurgical Treatment of Sodium-Bonded Spent Nuclear Fuel Dr. Edwin S. Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, April 8, 1999
The Reprocessing Fallacy: An Update Paul Leventhal, president, and Steven Dolley, research director, paper presented to the Special Panel Session on Spent Fuel Reprocessing, Waste Management 99 Conference, Tucson, Arizon, March 1, 1999
NCI to Secretaries: HEU Export to Canada Jeopardizes RERTR, Schumer Amendment Letter from Alan Kuperman, Senior Policy Analyst, and Paul Leventhal, President, to the Secretaries of Energy, State and Defense, February 19, 1999
NCI Criticizes Inadequate Security Plan for Shipment of Weapons-Usable Plutonium Fuel to Japan NCI Letter to Secretary of Defense William Cohen, February 11, 1999
Comments on the Department of Energy's Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Tom Clements, Executive Director, and Edwin Lyman, Scientific Director, February 11, 1999
U.S. Plan to Use Warhead Plutonium as Fuel in Power Reactors Poses Significant Cancer Risks to Public, New Report Concludes "Public Health Consequences of Substituting Mixed-Oxide for Uranium Fuel in Light-Water Reactors," Dr. Edwin Lyman, Scientific Director, NCI, January 1999 (Executive Summary)
MOX Report Charts
 
Latent Cancer Fatalities in Severe Accident (16 kb GIF file)
Average Risk Within 10 Miles (10 kb GIF file)
"Public Health Consequences of MOX Fuel: NRC Reactor Licensing Issues," NCI Background Paper, January 21, 1999
Major Security Breach at Panama Canal Revealed as the Next Nuclear Waste Shipment Looms NCI-Greenpeace letter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, November 6, 1998 (Identical letters also sent to Secretaries of Defense and Energy)
The Most Important Questions and Answers About the MOX Shipment Sharon Tanzer, NCI, December 8, 1998
Iraq's Inspector Games Paul Leventhal and Steven Dolley, NCI, Washington Post "Outlook" section, November 29, 1998
 
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NCI, NGOs to Gore: US Should Not Help Russia Convert Reactors to Use HEU Fuel Letter from NCI and seven other public interest groups to Vice President Al Gore, November 19, 1998
Groups to Holgate: DOE Economic Analysis Must Include All Relevant Costs of Plutonium Disposition in Russia Letter from NCI and eight other public-interest groups to Laura Holgate, director, Office of Fissile Materials Disposition, DOE, November 4, 1998
HEU Core Conversion of Russian Production Reactors: A Major Threat to the International RERTR Regime Alan Kuperman and Paul Leventhal, Presented at the 21st Annual International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR), Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 19, 1998
Civilian Highly Enriched Uranium and the Fissile Material Convention: Codifying the Phase-out of Bomb Grade Fuel for Research Reactors Alan Kuperman, Senior Policy Analyst, NCI, October 9, 1998
NCI Finds "Gaping Holes" in Legal Barriers to Environmental Disaster from Nuclear Transports "The Need for Further International Action Regarding Safety of Sea Transport of Ultrahazardous Radioactive Materials," Jon M. Van Dyke, Professor of Law, University of Hawai'i School of Law, August 17, 1998
Comments of the Nuclear Control Institute on the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Draft Environmental Impact Statement Steven Dolley, NCI Research Director, September 16, 1998
DOE Reprocessing Policy and the Irreversibility of Plutonium Disposition Dr. Edwin Lyman, NCI Scientific Director, Paper Presented to the American Nuclear Society, Charleston, SC, September 9, 1998
IAEA Confirms Unresolved Questions About Iraq's Nuclear-Bomb Capability
 
NCI Press Release, July 28, 1998
IAEA Report to the UN Security Council, July 27, 1998
NCI Letter to Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General, IAEA, June 24, 1998
ElBaradei Letter to NCI, June 25, 1998
NCI Letter to ElBaradei, July 1, 1998
The Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Tests: An End to Nuclear Proliferation, or to Nuclear Non-Proliferation? Paul Leventhal, NCI President, presented to Conference on the Impact of the South Asian Nuclear Crisis on the Non-Proliferation Regime, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 16, 1998
"Averting a Latin American Nuclear Arms Race"
Introduction to book on NCI's Montevideo Conference, Averting  a Latin American Nuclear Arms Race: New Prospects and Challenges for Argentinian-Brazilian Nuclear Cooperation, edited by Paul Leventhal and Sharon Tanzer, St. Martin's Press, 1992.
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