Table of Contents

1. Technical Interpretation.- Session 1: Explosive Properties of Various Types of Plutonium.- 2. Explosive Properties of Various Types of Plutonium.- 3. Commentary.- Session 2: Amount, Location and Form of Weapons and Reactor Plutonium.- 4. World Inventories of Plutonium.- 5. Problems of Russian Plutonium Utilization.- 6. World Inventories of Civil Plutonium.- Session 3: Direct Disposal Options for Separated Plutonium.- 7. Direct Disposal Options for Separated Plutonium.- 8. Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium.- Session 4: Use of Plutonium in Light-Water Reactors.- 9. The Use of Weapon and Reactor Plutonium in WWER and BN Type Reactors.- 10. Pu Utilisation: Recycling in PWRs and Fast Neutron Reactor Perspective.- 11. Use of MOX (R-Pu and W-Pu) fuel in VVER-1000.- 12. Disposition of Plutonium from Nuclear Weapons.- 13. Commentary: Recycling Warhead Plutonium in Light Water Reactors: The Civil Nuclear Industry Can Help.- Session 5: Energy from Nuclear Fission over the Very Long Term — U-238 and TH-232.- 14. Energy over the centuries: the IFR options.- 15. Commentary.- 16 Commentary.- Session 6: Burning up Actinides and Long-Lived Fission Products?.- 17. Weapons and Commercial Plutonium Ultimate Disposition Choices — Destroy “Completely” or Store “Forever”.- 18. Burning Actinides and Long-lived Fission Products.- 19. Plutonium: Secondary Raw Material or Radwaste.- Session 7: Environmental Impacts and Constraints.- 20. Plutonium and its Chemical Compounds: The Problem of Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation.- 21. Effects of Transmuting Long-lived Radionuclines on Waste Disposal in a Geological Repository.- 22. Commentary: Environmental Impact and Constraints.- Session 8: Costs of Transport and Safeguards Regimes.- 23. Requirements for PlutoniumTransportation, Storage and Accounting Systems.- 24. Commentary: Security/Safeguard Costs.- Appendix: List of Participants.- Biographies.- Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations.

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