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The U.S. Fact Sheet's Missing Parts: Iran's Near 20 Percent LEU
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini. ISIS
May 4, 2015
Despite the fact that Iran no longer has a stock of near 20 percent low enriched uranium (LEU) in hexafluoride form (UF6), it continues to retain a significant portion of this material in the form of oxide. In total, at the end of June, Iran will possess about 228 kilograms (kg) of near 20 percent LEU (uranium mass). Based on historical data, an estimated 43 kg will be in uranium oxide powder at the end of June. About 125 kg will be in scrap, waste, and in-process. Another 60 kg of this LEU is expected to be in Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) fuel. Most of the LEU in the TRR fuel will be fresh and not irradiated. Irradiated LEU is typically much harder to chemically process and use in a breakout than unirradiated LEU.
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Israel Faults Arab Neighbors for Stalling on Nuke-Free Zone
Cara Anna, The Times of Israel
Israel is blaming its Arab neighbors for the failure of progress toward achieving a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, saying that "if a serious regional effort has not emerged in the Middle East during the last five years, it is not because of Israel.
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Germany Should Support Ban on Nuclear Weapons
Sascha Hach, Heinrich Boll Stiftung
April, 2015
The five-yearly Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is taking place from April 27 to May 22, 2015. In order to increase pressure for nuclear disarmament and to strengthen the non-proliferation regime, nuclear weapons need to be banned under international law, as other weapons of mass destruction already are. A ban treaty would complement and strengthen the NPT. Germany should therefore stand up for a ban on nuclear weapons at the Review Conference.
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How Nuclear Realists Falsely Frame the
Nuclear Weapons Debate
Ward Wilson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
May 7, 2015
There has never been as much dissatisfaction with the international framework governing nuclear weapons (the Non-Proliferation Treaty) as there is today. The treaty is being reviewed and debated at the United Nations in New York this month, and for the first time in 35 years there are serious concerns that it might tear apart at the seams. Increasingly, there are those who feel strongly that the world would be safer without nuclear weapons, and that the nuclear-armed states (whose promise to work seriously toward disarmament in Article VI of the treaty is one of the tender spots creating anger and resentment) are not fulfilling their obligations.
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Notes from the NVP REVCON
Jeffrey Lewis, Arms Control Wonk
May 5, 2015
Michael Krepon noticed that we've been silent on the issue of the ongoing NPT Review Conference and had an inspired idea - why not ask my colleague Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova to send us her thoughts from New York, where she is attending.
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International Convention on Nuclear Security
NSGEG Recap Report
March 2015
A terrorist nuclear attack using either fissionable or radiological materials will produce devastating international political, economic, and environmental consequences. It will impact the entire global community, including those least able to afford it.
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The Third Way: Japan's Policy on Nuclear Energy
Shinsuke Tomotsugu, Asia Pacific Bulletin
May 7, 2015
On April 14, 2015, a Japanese court ordered a halt to the government's plan to restart the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant. The ruling cited safety fears, whereas the Japanese nuclear regulatory watchdog had given the opera��on its consent. There are currently 48 commercial reactors in Japan, all of which remain offline a��er the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. The Japanese government has been cri��cized for its insistence on viewing nuclear energy as an important base-load power source despite its official policy of reducing dependence on nuclear energy.
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