Swords into Market Shares: Technology, Economics, and Security in the New Russia (2000)

Chapter: Appendix E: Technology-Intensive Projects of Priority Interest to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Technology-Intensive Projects of Priority Interest to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Glenn E. Schweitzer. 2000. Swords into Market Shares: Technology, Economics, and Security in the New Russia. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. doi: 10.17226/9746.
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E: Technology-Intensive Projects of Priority Interest to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  • Missile fuels and oxidizer reprocessing infrastructure

  • Solid-fuel missile engine destruction infrastructure

  • Infrastructure for unloading, transportation, and temporary storage of nuclear submarine spent fuel

  • Infrastructure for reprocessing, storage, and disposal of radioactive waste, including nuclear submarine reactor units

  • Elimination of 410 solid-fuel inter-continental ballistic missile from nuclear submarines

  • Dismantlement of 30 strategic nuclear submarines and 120 multi-purpose nuclear submarines

  • Destruction of coastal storage facilities for spent fuel and radioactive waste of the Navy in the northern and far east regions

  • Chemical weapons destruction facilities in Gorny and Schuchye

  • Demilitarization of former chemical weapons production facilities

  • Disposal of the casings of missile engines and launch containers

  • New jobs for former defense program specialists, particularly in closed cities

  • Alternative thermal and electricity generating capacities in Zheleznogorsk and Seversk in place of plutonium production reactors

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Technology-Intensive Projects of Priority Interest to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Glenn E. Schweitzer. 2000. Swords into Market Shares: Technology, Economics, and Security in the New Russia. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. doi: 10.17226/9746.
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  • Manufacturing of inserts to package fissile material resulting from nuclear weapons destruction

  • Enhancement of protection, control, and accounting systems for nuclear materials and nuclear installations

  • Disposal of plutonium no longer required for defense purposes through use in MOX fuels

Source: “ETRI and Future Funding Issues, Russian Perspective,” Presented at the Monterey Institute for International Studies bySpokesman for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 12, 1999.

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