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	Stockpile stewardship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing.
		Most work for stockpile stewardship is undertaken at United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, mostly at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Nevada Test Site, and Department of Energy productions facilities, employing around 27,500 personnel for the work and costing billions of dollars per year.
		The government under President George W. Bush has introduced a new program to expand upon Stockpile Stewardship, called Reliable Replacement Warhead, or RRW, whose goal it is to enable the development of new weapons without physical testing (computer simulations) within 18 months and construction of the new designs within 4 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stockpile_stewardship (293 words)

	DOE/EIS-0236, Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Stockpile Stewardship and Management ()
		Response: One benefit of science-based stockpile stewardship is to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to NPT goals; however, the U.S. nuclear posture is not the only factor that might affect whether or not other nations might develop nuclear weapons of their own.
		Stockpile stewardship contributes positively to U.S. arms control and nonproliferation policy goals by allowing the United States to pursue ratification of a zero-yield CTBT and by providing the United States with continued confidence in its weapons to allow for further reductions and to meet its NPT Article VI obligations.
		Stockpile stewardship capabilities are currently viewed by the United States as a means to further U.S. nonproliferation objectives in seeking a zero-yield CTBT.
	www.eh.doe.gov /nepa/eis/eis0236/vol4/v4c340.htm (19565 words)

	The Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Meeting these stockpile stewardship and management responsibilities will be more challenging now than ever before, given the moratorium on nuclear testing, the termination of new weapons development, and the closure of production facilities.
		However, all stockpile stewardship and management activities are closely linked to each other, and all are essential to ensure continued confidence in the nation's nuclear deterrent.
		Stockpile management costs include a new tritium production facility and the activities associated with dismantling the nonenduring stockpile, with maintenance and surveillance of the enduring stockpile, and with the implementation of new manufacturing and surveillance technologies to support the enduring stockpile.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/doctrine/doe/st01.htm (8880 words)

	Stockpile stewardship: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapon nuclear weapon quick summary:
		Most work for stockpile stewardship is undertaken at United States Department of Energy National Laboratories United States Department of Energy National Laboratories quick summary:
		The united states department of energy national laboratories are a system of research facilities and laboratories funded and controlled by the united states department...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stockpile_stewardship.htm (743 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Record of Decision Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Stockpile Stewardship and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The term ``stockpile stewardship'' refers to core competencies in activities associated with research, design, development, and testing of nuclear weapons, and the assessment and certification of their safety and reliability under a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
		Stockpile stewardship capabilities form the basis of DOE's judgments about the safety, reliability, and performance of U.S. nuclear weapons and, in a larger context, U.S. judgments about the nuclear weapons capabilities of others (Section 2.4.1 of the PEIS).
		DOE did not consider it reasonable to propose stewardship alternatives that would diminish, rather than enhance, stewardship capabilities, particularly given the fact that historic confidence in the safety and performance of the stockpile was derived from the nuclear testing that is no longer part of the ongoing stewardship program.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1996/December/Day-26/pr-17280.html (11711 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Stockpile Stewardship includes activities required to maintain a high level of confidence in the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons in the absence of underground nuclear testing, and to be prepared to resume nuclear testing if so directed by the President.
		Stockpile Stewardship includes activities required to maintain a high level of confidence in the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons in the absence of underground nuclear testing, and to be prepared to resume testing if so directed by the President.
		While the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is currently judged to be safe, secure, and reliable, the average age of the stockpile has never significantly exceeded the current age of 12 to 13 years.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1995/June/Day-14/pr-986.html (4369 words)

	DOE/EIS-0236, Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Stockpile Stewardship and Management ()
		Stockpile stewardship comprises the activities associated with research, design, development, and testing of nuclear weapons, and the assesument and certification of their safety and reliability.
		With regard to stockpile management facilities, potential environmental impacts from the base case are analyzed quantitatively in the greatest detail, while impacts from the high and low cases are discussed qualitatively.
		The stockpile stewardship portion of this PEIS evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the proposed actions and the reasonable alternatives for carrying out the stockpile stewardship functions.
	www.eh.doe.gov /nepa/eis/eis0236/sum/sum_sec1.htm (4397 words)

	CTBT
		Stockpile Stewardship is the means by which the Nation will maintain the safety and reliability of its nuclear weapon strategic deterrent under a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
		We are investigating the feasibility of using a larger facility based on the Z-pinch concept should existing facilities prove insufficient to meet the mission of stockpile stewardship.
		Second, we have laid out a plan for the stockpile stewardship program --- weapon by weapon, part by part, that projects the tasks required to maintain the stockpile over the next ten years, and beyond.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /acda/ctbtpage/reis2.htm (4469 words)

	NRDC: Does the U.S. Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Program Pose a Proliferation Threat?
		This remark raises the disturbing prospect that the SBSS Program is being guided as much by narrow, and largely hidden institutional imperatives to maintain the strategic relevance of Cold War laboratory infrastructures as it is by bona-fide technical requirements for maintaining the safety and reliability of a declining arsenal of weapons.
		Nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile have been certified as adequately safe, and the sensitivity to impact or fire of the high-explosives used in nuclear warheads does not increase with age.
		Hence stockpile "stewardship" that is consistent with the CTBT's avowed intent to constrain development and qualitative improvement of nuclear weapons need not, as a technical matter, seek to fashion a way around these constraints through an elaborate "virtual testing" program.
	www.nrdc.org /nuclear/athreat.asp (13146 words)

	Issues in S and T, Spring 1999, The Stockpile Stewardship Charade
		Mixed into the current stockpile stewardship budget are not just programs to monitor and maintain our nuclear stockpile but also jobs programs for the nuclear weapons labs and production facilities.
		Genuine stewardship should instead be defined as curatorship of the existing stockpile coupled with limited remanufacturing to solve any problems that might be discovered.
		Without the substantial payoffs represented by the stockpile stewardship program, the labs would likely be able to undercut the treaty as they had done in the past.
	www.issues.org /issues/15.3/mello.htm (4074 words)

	Stockpile Stewardship
		The stated goal of the Stockpile Stewardship Program is to ensure the "safety and reliability" of the United States nuclear forces through hydrodynamics tests, computer simulations and predictive modeling, and tests on nuclear weapon components.
		Confidence in the efficacy of remanufacture was such that the replicated warheads were certified for stockpile without requiring a nuclear test.
		Hisham Zerriffi and Arjun Makhijani, "The Stewardship Smokescreen," The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol.
	www.cdi.org /issues/testing/sbss.html (4304 words)

	Plutonium: Aging Mechanisms and Weapon Pit Lifetime Assessment
		A fundamental aspect in the accumulation of radiation damage in materials is the existence of a threshold beyond which further damage results in rapid swelling and density change.
		The length of this incubation is unknown for weapon-grade plutonium and cannot be predicted.
		Experience from stockpile surveillance programs reflects this point: Pits have remained remarkably pristine and free of corrosion, especially since the adoption of modern cleaning and sealing methods.
	www.tms.org /pubs/journals/JOM/0309/Martz-0309.html (3646 words)

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		Stewardship of the Nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile is one of the most complex, scientifically technical programs undertaken and the Department needs to ensure that all aspects of this mission-critical responsibility are fulfilled.
		Successful implementation of the Stockpile Stewardship Program is key to the Secretary of Energy’s annual certification to the President that the nuclear stockpile is safe and reliable.
		In the past, deficiencies have been identified in surveillance tests of stockpiled nuclear weapons, a key component of the Stockpile Stewardship Program.
	www.cfo.doe.gov /progliaison/2004StockpileSurveillanceTesting.doc (483 words)

	CTBT and Stockpile Stewardship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Dr. Sidney Drell on Stockpile Stewardship Under the CTBT: 'It Is Adequate to the Task,'" Coalition Issue Brief, December 1, 2000.
		The Department of Energy's Stockpile Stewardship Program, by Frank von Hippel, FAS Public Interest Report, Journal of the Federation of American Scientists, January/February 1997.
		The Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program: Maintaining Confidence in the Safety and Reliability of the Enduring U.S. Nuclear Weapon Stockpile, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Defense Programs, May 1995.
	www.clw.org /archive/coalition/ctstockp.htm (937 words)

	CTBT
		We are successfully addressing several stockpile warhead issues by using a combination of analysis, new experimental data, archived test and manufacturing data, and most importantly, the collective judgment of our weapon design laboratories.
		Our stewardship program is also designed so that the day-to-day needs of the stockpile are met in a cost efficient and environmentally responsible manner.
		And let me stress that if I am advised by the nuclear weapons laboratory directors that there is a problem with the stockpile that is critical to our nuclear deterrent and that we are unable to correct without returning to underground nuclear testing, I will not hesitate to advise the President of such.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /acda/ctbtpage/pena.htm (1913 words)

	Los Alamos National Laboratory: History: H-Bomb on: Stewardship
		Surveillance activities use chemical, analytical, and material sciences to assess the aging of stockpile components.
		Los Alamos contributions to stockpile stewardship include the development of the Blue Mountain supercomputer (one of the world's fastest machines) and the computational methods it uses.
		As another former Los Alamos Director stated in 1999, "Maintaining the viability of the stockpile in the absence of nuclear testing is an enormously difficult challenge, but we are using very powerful tools today to certify the stockpile, and every day we are enhancing our stewardship tools with even more advanced capabilities."
	www.lanl.gov /history/hbombon/stewardship.shtml (343 words)

	Alsos: The Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program: Maintaining Confidence in the Safety and Reliability of the ...
		This booklet by the Office of Defense Programs in the U.S. Department of Energy addresses the importance of maintaining the safety and reliability of the United States’ nuclear stockpile in the absence of testing.
		The report states that because the nation’s nuclear stockpile is being drastically reduced, it is more challenging than previously to keep nuclear weapons stockpiles secure and to maintain confidence in them as a nuclear deterrent.
		It revisits past policy efforts and discusses the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program’s goals, strategies, costs, and environmental effects.
	alsos.wlu.edu /information.aspx?id=1037 (144 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Stockpile Stewardship Conference Planning Meeting Minutes - 10/1/03
		Celec began by discussing the background leading to the Stockpile Stewardship Conference.
		Pete Aldridge (USD(ATandL)), to the NWC on risk in the stockpile stewardship program; specifically, the risk associated with not testing our nuclear weapons.
		The Stockpile Stewardship Conference will be used to present the results of the work of four panels to the NWC, and others as appropriate, and to establish recommendations for the way-ahead.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/stockpilestewardshipminutes.htm (1852 words)

	News Release - DOE Report on Stockpile Stewardship Program
		ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy's just-released 30-Day Review of the Stockpile Stewardship Program was praised by Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director C. Paul Robinson today as "an important study.
		He said the recommendations will be implemented over the next few months and that Sandia will continue to be heavily involved, along with the other research labs and the production plants that were involved in the study, by providing information about the program and its implementation across the nuclear weapons complex.
		The study included a broad review of the nuclear weapons program and focused on the challenge of continued certification of the stockpile without nuclear testing.
	www.sandia.gov /media/NewsRel/NR1999/sspstudy.htm (444 words)

	Stockpile Stewardship
		The National Ignition Facility writes that "the Stockpile Stewardship initiative exists to cut the Pentagon’s expenditures, dismantle the current stockpile..."
		Train physicists to maintain but dismantle the existing stockpile.
		Whereas… the expenses requested are obscene, Senator Ed Markey (Democrat) the Massachusetts gentleman proposes, outlines, reduced, revised stockpile stewardship expenditures.
	www.spinelessbooks.com /newspoetry/1999/stockpile.html (266 words)

	Stockpile Stewardship Tool Box (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This paper presents an overview of existing and proposed experimental facilities that would be used as part of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Stockpile Stewardship program at the U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories (Los Alamos and Sandia in New Mexico, and Livermore in California) and the Nevada Test Site (NTS).
		The total projected cost for the Stewardship program over the next ten years is approximately $20 billion.
		DOE's preferred alternative under the Stockpile Stewardship and Management (SSandM) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) is to upgrade FXR and build a containment facility (see CFF).
	www.clw.org /archive/coalition/toolbox.htm (3802 words)

	DOE - NNSA/NSO -- Stockpile Stewardship
		The Stockpile Stewardship Program was established in response to the Fiscal Year 1994 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 103-160), which requires, in the absence of nuclear testing, a program to:
		Predict, detect, and evaluate potential problems of the aging of the stockpile;
		A suite of enhanced capabilities and facilities across the Nuclear Weapons Complex (which includes weapons laboratories, production plants, and the Nevada Test Site) have been developed to fill in the knowledge gaps and to provide data relevant to identified stockpile concerns.
	www.nv.doe.gov /nationalsecurity/stewardship (222 words)

	Laboratory Director talks to House committee about stockpile stewardship \| The Newsbulletin \| June 13, 2002
		Laboratory Director John Browne on Wednesday spoke to the Military Procurement Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee about Los Alamos' stockpile stewardship program.
		"I am more encouraged today by our ability to address and resolve stockpile issues than I have been in the past," Browne said.
		Laboratory Director talks to House committee about stockpile stewardship more...
	www.lanl.gov /orgs/pa/newsbulletin/2002/06/13/text01.shtml (214 words)

	NRDC: National Ignition Facility and Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Resource Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NRDC: National Ignition Facility and Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Resource Page
		The following text is a recreation of a U.S. Department of Energy document.
		He received his degree in physics from Cornell University.
	www.nrdc.org /nuclear/nif/seab1c.asp (1087 words)

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