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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Giacomo G. M. Cojazzi, Guido Renda, Jor Shan Choi, Jim Hassberger
Nuclear Technology | Volume 179 | Number 1 | July 2012 | Pages 76-90
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Safeguards / Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT179-76
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The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection (PR&PP) Working Group has developed a methodology for the PR&PP evaluation of advanced nuclear energy systems (NESs). A notional sodium-cooled fast neutron nuclear reactor system, named the Example Sodium Fast Reactor (ESFR), was used as a case study for the development and demonstration of the GIF PR&PP evaluation methodology. This paper presents some of the results of the application of the GIF PR&PP evaluation methodology to a misuse scenario involving the ESFR. The ESFR baseline design and two design variations are addressed. Rather than presenting a complete evaluation of all the possible misuse scenarios, the paper concentrates on methodological aspects and illustrates how a qualitative analysis following the GIF PR&PP evaluation methodology can generate traceable results of the considered design variations and provide useful feedback for both system and safeguards designers as well.