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*[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261629941_Making_the_world_safe_for_nuclear_energy Making the world safe for nuclear energy] Deutch, Kantor, Moniz, Poneman, 2006, Survival 46(4):65-79 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00396330412331342466 DOI:10.1080/00396330412331342466]<br> - proposal for Nuclear Suppliers Group.
*[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261629941_Making_the_world_safe_for_nuclear_energy Making the world safe for nuclear energy] Deutch, Kantor, Moniz, Poneman, 2006, Survival 46(4):65-79 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00396330412331342466 DOI:10.1080/00396330412331342466]<br> - proposal for a Nuclear Suppliers Group to support nations that agree to non-proliferation.
*[https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/non-proliferation/safeguards-to-prevent-nuclear-proliferation.aspx Safeguards to prevent nuclear proliferation] World Nuclear Association, 2021.
*[https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/non-proliferation/safeguards-to-prevent-nuclear-proliferation.aspx Safeguards to prevent nuclear proliferation] World Nuclear Association, 2021.
*[https://thorconpower.com/docs/docs_safeguards_pub.pdf ThorCon Safeguards and Security] Version: 1.31, 2019-12-09, a good discussion of the risks of proliferation, and one company's safeguards to counter that risk.
*[https://thorconpower.com/docs/docs_safeguards_pub.pdf ThorCon Safeguards and Security] Version: 1.31, 2019. Some uranium reactors have a brief period in their fuel cycle where weapons-grade Pu-239 can be extracted from the partially used fuel. ThorCon has a good discussion of these risks and their safeguards to counter that risk.
*[https://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/PlentifulEnergy.pdf ''Plentiful Energy] The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor'', Charles Till & Yoon Chang, Chapter 12: Nonproliferation Aspects of the IFR.
*[https://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/PlentifulEnergy.pdf ''Plentiful Energy] The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor'', Charles Till & Yoon Chang, 2011. Chapter 12: ''Nonproliferation Aspects of the IFR'' has a good discussion of how pyroprocessing can make proliferation very difficult.
*[https://www.nature.com/articles/492031a ''Thorium fuel has risks''] Stephen F. Ashley, et.al. 2012, ''Nature'' volume 492, pages 31–33. Some thorium reactors with on-site fuel processing may be vulnerable to skimming of a small fraction of U-233 from the process loop.

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  • Making the world safe for nuclear energy Deutch, Kantor, Moniz, Poneman, 2006, Survival 46(4):65-79 DOI:10.1080/00396330412331342466
    - proposal for a Nuclear Suppliers Group to support nations that agree to non-proliferation.
  • Safeguards to prevent nuclear proliferation World Nuclear Association, 2021.
  • ThorCon Safeguards and Security Version: 1.31, 2019. Some uranium reactors have a brief period in their fuel cycle where weapons-grade Pu-239 can be extracted from the partially used fuel. ThorCon has a good discussion of these risks and their safeguards to counter that risk.
  • Plentiful Energy The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor, Charles Till & Yoon Chang, 2011. Chapter 12: Nonproliferation Aspects of the IFR has a good discussion of how pyroprocessing can make proliferation very difficult.
  • Thorium fuel has risks Stephen F. Ashley, et.al. 2012, Nature volume 492, pages 31–33. Some thorium reactors with on-site fuel processing may be vulnerable to skimming of a small fraction of U-233 from the process loop.