Safeguards: industry perspectives

Safeguards are measures taken to prevent malicious use of materials, technology, and facilities associated with nuclear electric power generation. Safeguards development has been and will continue to be influenced by a number of groups, including the utilities, suppliers, the U.S. government, foreign nations, potentially malevolent groups, and the general public. Unresolved issues associated with the safeguards problem include utilization of reprocessing and plutonium recycle and the safeguards they would require, concern about nuclear exports, methods of judging safeguards adequacy, the respective roles of government and industry, civil liberties implications, and the possibilities for international cooperation. Safeguards uncertainty has affected industry in its projections of future costs and facilities planning. Future decisions regarding safeguards require the attention of both government and industry