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
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.
For additional information regarding the Office of
Nonproliferation Research and Development priorities, click here.
TOPICS:
42.
Research to Support Proliferation
Detection
a.
Spectroscopic Quality Radiation
Detection Materials Growth
b. Radiation Detector Development from Emerging Advanced Materials
c. Technique for Fabricating Optical Quality Gradient Index
Spheres
d. Compression of
Registered Wide-Area High-Resolution Aerial Video
43.
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
d. Development of COTS-In-Space Reconfigurable Processing
Architectures
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