The management challenge in orchestrating a multitude of DOE headquarters, laboratory, and contractor personnel at about 50 sites in Russia is daunting. Steps are needed to maximize the return on U.S. expenditures, to reduce redundancy while ensuring adequate oversight, and to provide additional work incentives that will attract highly qualified specialists from the United States and Russia to participate in the protection, control, and accountability of direct-use material (MPC&A) program. This report contains many recommendations to address these and related issues.
- PROTECTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL IN RUSSIA
- Copyright
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ORIGIN OF THE STUDY
- RELATED STUDIES BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
- ROLE OF THE NRC COMMITTEE FOR THIS STUDY
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Sustain the U.S. commitment to the program.
- Reassess priorities to address important vulnerabilities.
- Indigenize MPC&A capabilities.
- Reduce impediments to effective cooperation.
- Improve management of U.S. personnel and financial resources.
- 1 IMPORTANCE OF MODERN MPC&A SYSTEMS IN RUSSIA
- AVAILABILITY OF DIRECT-USE MATERIAL
- RUSSIAN ECONOMIC CRISIS OF 1998
- ELEMENTS OF A MODERN MPC&A SYSTEM
- DOE'S COOPERATIVE PROGRAM IN MPC&A
- 2 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- GENERAL FINDINGS
- 1. A National Security Imperative
- 2. Program Progress in Key Areas
- 3. Russian Interest in the Program
- 4. DOE's Management of the Program
- SPECIFIC FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- 1. Sustain the U.S. Commitment to the Program
- 2. Reassess Priorities to Address Important Vulnerabilities
- 3. Indigenize MPC&A Capabilities
- 4. Reduce Impediments to Effective Cooperation
- 5. Improve Management of U.S. Personnel and Financial Resources
- 6. Expand Efforts to Understand the Full Dimension of Critical Long-Term Problems
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B Terms of Reference
- APPENDIX C Biographies of Committee Members
- APPENDIX D Site Visits and Meetings of the Committee
- APPENDIX E MPC&A Program Guidelines
- MISSION
- Goals and Strategies
- Frequently Used MPC&A Upgrades
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