The Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation is the organization within the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) responsible for preventing the spread of materials, technology, and expertise relating to weapons of mass destruction; and for eliminating inventories of surplus fissile material. Specifically the organization: Secures nuclear materials, nuclear weapons, and radiological materials at potentially vulnerable sites in Russia and elsewhere; Reduces quantities of nuclear and radiological materials; Bolsters border security overseas; Strengthens international nonproliferation and export control regimes; Downsizes the nuclear weapons infrastructure of the former Soviet Union (FSU); Mitigates risks at nuclear facilities worldwide and Conducts cutting-edge nonproliferation and national security research and development (R&D).
The following topics focus on nonproliferation research and development opportunities. The Office of Nonproliferation Research and Development conducts applied research and development, testing, and evaluation to produce technologies that lead to prototype demonstrations and resultant detection systems, strengthening the U.S. response to current and projected threats to national security worldwide posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the diversion of special nuclear material. DOE’s NNSA is the only U.S. government agency investing in long-term strategic and often high-risk technical solutions to detect the proliferation of WMD. The R&D program is the technical base that provides operational agencies, including the Department of Defense (DOD) and the intelligence community, with innovative systems and technologies to meet their nonproliferation, counter-proliferation, and counter-terrorism responsibilities.
The Office develops applicable technologies, demonstrates and validates fieldable prototypes and, in the treaty monitoring area, provides actual operational hardware and software. The Office’s work is focused in two programmatic areas: proliferation detection and nuclear explosion monitoring.
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TOPICS:
1.
Research to Support Proliferation Detection
a) Simulation, Modeling, and Algorithms
b) Nuclear Fuel
Cycle Remote Sensing (Electro-Optical Systems):
Hardware, Software, and System Development
c) Advanced
Materials Research for Radiation Detection Applications
2.
Research to Support Nuclear
Explosion Monitoring
a) Seismic
Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions
b) Radionuclide
Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions
c) Space-Based Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions
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