Exploring Uranium Resource Constraints on Fissile Material Production in Pakistan

Military Fissile Material Production and Stocks in France

France ended fissile material production for military purposes in the 1990s and has started to decommission and dismantle its production facilities at Marcoule and Pierrelatte. This paper provides an overview of the French production complex and presents new estimates of historic fissile-material production, which include neutronics calculations for the production reactors at Marcoule. The anal...

Viewpoint : Verifying a Fissile Material Production Cut - off Treaty

Dr. Victor Bragin has been involved in the development of a fissile material cut-off treaty since 1994, first as Safeguards Analyst at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and since January 1996 as Safeguards Adviser at the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (ASNO). Mr. John Carlson is Director-General of ASNO, and is a statutory officer responsible directly to the Australian...

Enriched Uranium versus Plutonium: Proliferant Preferences in the Choice of Fissile Material

China and a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty

In this paper, I will explore China's possible position in upcoming FMCT negotiations, China’s major security concerns, the kind of verification provisions that could be accepted by China, and the factors that might facilitate China’s participation in the treaty.

Bayesian Optimization with Resource Constraints and Production

In this paper, we aim to take a step toward a tighter integration of automated planning and Bayesian Optimization (BO). BO is an approach for optimizing costlyto-evaluate functions by selecting a limited number of experiments that each evaluate the function at a specified input. Typical BO formulations assume that experiments are selected one at a time, or in fixed batches, and that experiments...