"U.S. planning test reactor to run on weapons-grade uranium.

Use of highly enriched fuel in civilian reactor would contravene decades-old #nonproliferation policy"

#SMR #nuclear #NuclearPower #proliferation @sts #TerraPower

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-planning-test-reactor-run-weapons-grade-uranium

US urged not to use bomb-grade uranium in #nuclear power experiment
A group of former #NuclearRegulatoryCommission members, including former Chairman Allison Macfarlane, and U.S. assistant secretaries of state responsible for #nonproliferation, said the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) at the Idaho National Laboratory could give other countries an excuse to enrich #uranium to bomb-grade level in pursuit of new #nuclearreactors. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-urged-not-use-bomb-grade-uranium-nuclear-power-experiment-2023-05-30/

AAAS: "U.S. planning test reactor to run on weapons-grade uranium."In 1950s + '60s, U.S. helped build research reactors around world, providing many of them uranium-235 enriched up to 90%.1970s we backtracked + spearheaded efforts to remove high-enriched uraniums or HEU from those reactors + repatriate it. Globally, "of the 171 research reactors that ran on HEU, 71 have switched to low-enriched fuel and 28 have shut down, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency—although 5 U.S. research reactors still use HEU." There is a tension between DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy, eager to develop new reactors, and National Nuclear Security Administration, which controls nuclear weapons + works for nonproliferation. Now Department of Energy is planning a small test reactor that would burn a large quantity of weapons-grade uranium, according to project’s draft environmental assessment. But this would be hypocritical, + contravene U.S policy of removing HEU from civilian reactors around world to keep it from being made into bombs. Edwin Lyman, a physicist + director for nuclear safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists says, “When the U.S. preaches the nonproliferation gospel, it should practice what it preaches.” Alan Kuperman, a political scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, says, “There was not by any means adequate public disclosure by the department that they were planning to contradict 5 decades of U.S. nonproliferation policy.” #nonproliferation #nuclearpower

I participated in the last in-person version of this @SIPRIorg and @EU_NonProlif course and liked it very much - extremely interesting talks & an opportunity to talk to brilliant people from the field

Def recommend to apply, esp if you're in engineering or related field! 👇

https://sipri.org/news/2023/sipri-co-host-wmd-non-proliferation-and-disarmament-pathways-online-course-focus-nuclear-and

#nuclear #disarmament #nonproliferation #SIPRI #EU_nonprolif

RT @UNODC_TPB: The risk of non-state actors acquiring and using #WMD is real. Today marks the Int'l Day for #Disarmament and #NonProliferation Awareness.

@UNODC assists MS to adhere to & effectively implement int'l treaties against #CBRN terrorism thanks to funding from 🇨🇦 & 🇪🇺.
#5March

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/euunvie/status/1632378595883507712

The decision to suspend New START is part of a longer term “dismantlement of the long-standing U.S.-Russian arms control architecture,” says William Potter, director of the #Middlebury Institute James Martin Center for #Nonproliferation Studies. These agreements were built on the basis of common interest in terms of reducing the economic costs and #military risks associated with a nuclear arms race. “Absent New #START, there are no longer any guard rails in place.”

https://time.com/6257220/putin-new-start-nuclear-treaty-era-over/

“The 2011 treaty placed ‘verifiable limits’ on the number of #IntercontinentalBallisticMissiles & #NuclearWarheads deployed by the countries.

“‘Our relations have degraded, & that’s completely & utterly the US’s fault,’ #Putin said.

“‘If the US conducts tests, then so will we,’ Putin said. ‘Nobody should have any illusions that global strategic parity can be destroyed.’ Other #nonproliferation agmnts, incl the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or #INF, treaty have fallen apart in recent yrs.

The latest events, accomplishments, and news stories from the #Middlebury Institute.

https://youtu.be/pftSCbAQ0jQ

#translation #interpretation #nonproliferation

Hello world!
@rmartinnielsen is working on this bot, modelled on the ICYMI (law) bot, which will boost toots about #ArmsControl, #Disarmament and #NonProliferation.
There is a longer #introduction from earlier this week: http://icymi-adn.martin-nielsen.ca/icymi-adn-a-new-bot/

Check out our new Korea Pro video where our editorial director, Jeongmin Kim, breaks down everything you need to know about President Yoon Suk-yeol's comment about South #Korea's possible #nuclear armament. #wmd #nonproliferation

I have a few lists which help me catch up on specific topics. I don't look at my local or federated feed.

Opt-in algorithms:
The friend-finder tools are algorithms - I've used them; they help explore the social graph and suggest possible links.

I REALLY like the @icymi_law model for an edited theme-specific AI-assisted feed. I could see this being useful for the #ADN #ArmsControl #Disarmament #NonProliferation community - hashtags get swamped and need a second pass filter. 2/3

Jeffrey Lewis, a #nonproliferation expert based at the #Middlebury Institute, shares insight into how a team developed an open source intelligence tool to detect rocket launches.

#OSINT

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1671776124

On December 3rd, 2022, the James Martin Center for #Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) hosted the Critical Issues Forum (CIF) Teachers Retreat. Instructors in attendance were long-term CIF #teachers, new teachers who are interested in joining the CIF, and teachers from the Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN).

#Middlebury

https://middlebury.pub/3InMBP2

Experiential tendency:
- to spread out from and elaborate upon any sense object arising in experience, smothering it with wave after wave of mental elaboration
- most illusory, repetitive and even obsessive
- blocking any mental calm or clarity 🪷🙏🏽

#Papañca is a Pali Buddhist term:
“People delight in proliferation,
the Tathagata in #nonproliferation.”
#Dhammapada 254
https://www.lionsroar.com/what-is-papanca/

:blobcatjustright: :blobcatthink: :blobcatwhat: :ablobcatrave:

5/5
Enjoy reading!

#ZeFKo #PeaceAndConflict #InternationalRelations #Deterrence #Disarmament #Feminism #Stateviolence #nonproliferation

NEW ARTICLE: "External drivers of #EU #differentiated #cooperation: How change in the #nuclear #nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment" by Michal Onderco and Clara Portela

#OpenAccess Download here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2022.2146336

RT @Amb_Klement_EU: It is deeply disappointing that the #NPTRevCon was unable to reach consensus due to #Russia's rejection of a compromise document that would have enabled progress on #nuclear #disarmament and #nonproliferation.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUatUN/status/1563624669063925766

RT @Amb_Klement_EU: It is deeply disappointing that the #NPTRevCon was unable to reach consensus due to #Russia's rejection of a compromise document that would have enabled progress on #nuclear #disarmament and #nonproliferation.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/euunvie/status/1563475419101548544

>... there are five #NATO nations that host nuclear weapons, that are under the control of the #UnitedStates. That’s in complete violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. None of the #nonproliferation and #abolition treaties across #Europe are working right now. There needs to be new arms control treaties. And right now the trajectory is in the opposite direction.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/17/biden_new_military_aid_ukraine_drones
#PhyllisBennis #DemocracyNow #USA #NoNukes #NPT