5/21/12 Home / Projects / WMD Expertise Redirection Project www PGS Printer Friendly Page   The Status Report On The Center For Systems Research And Development RFNC-VNIITF, Snezinsk (Chelyabinsk-70) May, 2001 Located in Snezinsk (formerly Chelyabinsk-70), the Center for Systems Research and Development is located at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of technical Physics (VNIITF). Funding for the Center is provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation; the John Merck Fund; the Ploughshares Fund; and the U.S. Department of Energy. I. Projects Funded to Date: Project: Strategic Stability Under Deep Cuts of Nuclear Weapons. Source: U.S. Foundations. Description: The project will provide a bibliographic overview of examined publications on technologies for transition to a world with either fewer or no nuclear weapons; summaries of proposed technologies for transition to a nuclear weapons-free world; an overview of technologies and technical means for support of transition to a world free of nuclear weapons; and proposals for further joint study of problems associated with nuclear weapons reductions and strengthening international stability. Status: Draft Report Received August 2000; Final Report Received in March, 2001. Additional Obligations: The report and its findings may be incorporated into an upcoming SIPRI publication. Project: Analysis of Plutonium Cut-Off Agreement. Source: U.S. Foundations; DOE Description: This project will critically review the previous IAEA inspections in North Korea and South Africa and the UNSCOM inspections in Iraq. Inspection procedures under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and other relevant agreements, will be reviewed. The procedures and technologies of the IAEA routine and suspicious-site inspections will be reviewed in detail. Status: Not Yet Received. Additional Obligations: Submission of a technical report that could be used during the consultations/negotiations of a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty. Project: Detection of Signatures of Undeclared Nuclear Weapons Activities Through Environmental Monitoring Source: U.S. Foundations. Description: This project provides an analysis of new IAEA Safeguards System (93+2); a review of up-to-date approaches and technologies of verification regime in the area of nuclear weapon nonproliferation proposed, including remote monitoring technologies and environmental items monitoring; a review of monitoring results obtained in the field experiment of 1995-1996. Status: Report Received March 2001. The report has been submitted to the journal "Science and Global Security" for publication.

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