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LIS and Nonpro

Andrew -

Excellent and very on-point post.  While working on an APS study currently in the pipeline regarding technical steps to verifying cuts in nuclear weapons arsenals, we also identified the LIS issue as an important nonproliferation problem in the making.  I, too, reached out to people like Jeff Eerkens to help us better inform our analyses in the context of detection and the "bomb in the basement" scenario.  We, too, determined that the NRC, my employer for 8 years, did not adequately take into account the nonproliferation risks of a technology like LIS in its licensing decisions and have urged them to do so.  Complicating things is the evasiveness of GE-Hitachi regarding the sharing of ANY information regarding their work on their LIS facililty.

Jodi L.

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