Stockpiling nuclear material

Storing radioactive material
Holding secure stocks of nuclear materials
Retaining nuclear weapons
Recovering lost nuclear weapons
Preserving nuclear weapons
Storing nuclear weapons

Implementation

In 1992, the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland commissioned a federal interim storage facility for low- and medium-level radioactive waste resulting from medical, industrial and research activities.

Broader

Narrower

Proliferating strategic nuclear arms

Accumulating nuclear reactor waste

Constrains

Negotiating convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons

Constrained by

Informing about unsafe nuclear missiles

Facilitates

Providing security assurances for non-nuclear weapon states

Facilitated by

Developing nuclear power

Protecting against vulnerable nuclear weapons arsenals

Creating nuclear weapon technology

Problem

Vulnerable nuclear weapons arsenals

Stockpiles of nuclear warfare material

Risk of unintentional nuclear war generated by the strategy of deterrence

Plutonium overproduction

Inadequate facilities for disposal of nuclear warheads

Dismantling of nuclear weapons

Accidents to nuclear weapons systems

Value

Loss

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(D) Detailed strategies

Subject

Fundamental sciences » Radiation

Fundamental sciences » Material

Transportation, telecommunications » Storage

Commerce » Merchandise

Defence » Arms

Conservation » Conservation

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 3, 2024