Published March 1989
| Version v1
Journal article
Nuclear threat is real
Creators
Description
A crude nuclear device is now within the reach of terrorist groups with the resources to recruit a technically qualified team of specialists. It could be made with reactor-grade plutonium like that separated in commercial processing or with highly-enriched uranium used in research reactors. Nuclear power plants and research reactors are considered to be vulnerable to acts of sabotage and to terrorist attacks that could breach safety systems and result in the release of substantial amounts of radioactivity. Therefore, suitable countermeasures and defences are urged
Additional details
Additional titles
- Augmented title (English)
- Possible threat to nuclear facilities by terrorist groups
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Pacific Defence Reporter
- Journal Volume
- 15
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Series
- Pac. Def. Report.
- Journal Page Range
- 50-52
- ISSN
- 0311-385X
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Australia
- Country of Input or Organization
- Australia
- INIS RN
- 21076733
- Subject category
- S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMMERCIALIZATION; ENRICHED URANIUM; INVENTORIES; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR MATERIALS DIVERSION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PLUTONIUM; PROLIFERATION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SABOTAGE; SAFEGUARDS; SECURITY
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; ACTINIDES; ELEMENTS; ISOTOPE ENRICHED MATERIALS; MATERIALS; METALS; POWER PLANTS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM
Optional Information
- Notes
- Indexed in Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS): 0005-0075.