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Civil Separated Plutonium Stocks—Planning for the Future
March 14, 2000
Conference location: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
March 14-15, 2000
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Tuesday, March 14, 2000
10:15 am - 10:30 am—Welcome, Introduction and Overview
- David Albright, President, ISIS
10:30 - 11:30 am—Keynote Address
- Dr. Alexander Chebeskov, Head of the Department for Nuclear Power and Plutonium Dispostion, State Scientific Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Russia
11:30 am - 1:00 pm—Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm— Guidelines for the Management of Civil Plutonium (INFCIRC/549)—Overview, Goals and Status
- Andreas Friedrich, Department of Foreign Affairs,
Switzerland (speaking in the capacity as the Chairman of the Informal
Consultations Group on Plutonium)
- Jim Finucane, Physical Scientist, Energy Information Administration
- Question and Answer Period
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm—Civil Plutonium Inventories—Quantities and Uncertainties
- Jor-Shan Choi, Staff Scientist, International Atomic Energy Agency
- David Albright, President, ISIS
- Question and Answer Period
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm—Break
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm—Plutonium Utilization (I)
- Jean Claude Guais, Vice President of Strategy and Development, Cogema, Inc.
- Masayuki Iwanaga, Director of International Cooperation,
Nuclear Material Control Division, Japanese Nuclear Cycle Development
Institute
- Kinji Koyama, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Nonproliferation, Japanese Institute of International Affairs
- Question and Answer Period
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm—Address
- Laura Holgate, Director of the Office of Fissile Materials Disposition, Department of Energy
Wednesday, March 15, 2000
9:00 am - 10:30 am—Plutonium Utilization (II)
- Wolfgang Kersting, Consultant, Bliekastel, Germany
- Michael Sadnicki, Independent Operational Research Scientist, specializing in nuclear economics
- Emile Vanden Bemden, FEX, Belgium
- Werner Couwenbergh, Assistant to the Managing Director, Belgonucleaire
- Andreas Friedrich, Department of Foreign Affairs, Bern, Switzerland
- Question and Answer Period
10:30 am - 10:45 am—Break
10:45 am - 12:15 pm—Immobilization—Technical Options
- William Danker, Plutonium Immobilization Project Manager, U.S. Department of Energy
- Serge Runge, Vice President of Industrial Programs, Cogema, Inc.
- Thomas Pigford, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
- Question and Answer Period
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm—Lunch Address—Global Plutonium Inventories: Planning for the Future
- Leonard Spector, Assistant Deputy Administrator for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm—What Criteria Would Govern the Disposal of Immobilized Plutonium?
- Allison Macfarlane, Science, Technology and Public Policy Fellow, Harvard University
- Edwin Lyman, Nuclear Control Institute
- Mycle Schneider, Director, WISE-Paris
- Question and Answer Period
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm—Future Directions and Strategies
- Chair: David Albright, President, ISIS
- Panelist:Luther Carter, Independent Journalist
- Panelist: Harold Bengelsdorf, Principal of Bengelsdorf, McGoldrick and Associates
- Panelist:Wolfgang Kersting, Consultant, Bliekastel, Germany
- Commentary: Ed Helminski, President, Exchange Monitor Publications
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