Thread by @harries_matthew

🧵 Naval nuclear propulsion and non-proliferation/safeguards, a reading list:

(I'm assembling this for myself but thought I would tweet in case useful to anyone else. Please reply with anything I've missed!)

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The @FAScientists Naval Nuclear Propulsion Project produced several studies on this topic from 2014-17, incl @laura_rockwood on IAEA safeguards, @MatiasSpektor on Brazil, @DrNickRitchie on the UK, a consensus report, and several journal articles. Link: fas.org/naval-nuclear-… /2

See also pieces here by @tomsheanuclear, @TournyolA, @areddie89, @bethanygoldblum, @NaomiEgel plus others I couldn't find on Twitter: fas.org/naval-nuclear-… /3

Here follow links to some other relevant studies and articles:

@seb6philippe, Safeguarding the Military Naval Nuclear Fuel Cycle, @INMMTweets Journal of Nuclear Materials Management 2014 scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/… /4

@frankvonhippel, Mitigating the Threat of Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation via Nuclear-Submarine Programs, @J_NuclearDisarm 2019 osti.gov/servlets/purl/… /5

@kaplowj, The Canary in the Nuclear Submarine: Assessing the Nonproliferation Risk of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Loophole, @TheNonproReview 2016 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… /6

Chunyan Ma and Frank von Hippel, Ending the Production of Highly Enriched Uranium for Naval Reactors, @TheNonproReview 2001 nonproliferation.org/wp-content/upl… /7

US Navy Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, Report on Use of Low Enriched Uranium in Naval Nuclear Propulsion, 1995 fissilematerials.org/library/onnp95… /8

James Clay Moltz, Closing the NPT Loophole on Exports of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Reactors, @TheNonproReview 1998 nonproliferation.org/wp-content/upl… /9

Alan J. Kuperman, Phasing Out Highly Enriched Uranium Fuel in Naval Propulsion: Why It’s Necessary, and How to Achieve It, @UTAustin NPPP working paper 2015 uploads.fas.org/2015/03/Kuperm… /10

@MBMAtwitt, Components of Naval Nuclear Fuel Transparency, NATO-EAPC fellowship report 2001 nato.int/acad/fellow/99… /11

Eugenio Pacelli Lazzarotti Diniz Costa, Brazil’s Nuclear Submarine: A Broader Approach to the Safeguards Issue, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional 2017 scielo.br/j/rbpi/a/rLVkK… /12

Ben Sanders and John Simpson, Nuclear submarines & non-proliferation: cause for concern, PPNN occasional paper 1988 (sadly not online, but did you know that old PPNN newsbriefs are available here via @TheWilsonCenter? digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/735…) /13

@GregThielmann and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, The Naval Nuclear Reactor Threat to the NPT, @ArmsControlNow brief 2013 armscontrol.org/files/TAB_Nava… /14

That's it for now. Please add anything I've missed! /15