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Table of Fissile Materials in Latvia

The following table provides information on highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium stockpiles at sites in Latvia. Because of uncertainties in NIS fissile material inventories, this table is not exhaustive.

For HEU, the mass of U-235 is listed along with the enrichment. When only an aggregate amount of HEU with various enrichments is known, the total weight of the HEU inventory is listed. For some sites only core loadings of research reactors are known, rather than the total amount of fissile material. This is indicated in the table. The table includes stocks of fresh fuel or fuel currently loaded in reactors. Spent fuel is not included.

 
 

Location	Facility	Material						Source
		Plutonium			HEU
		kg	grade	form	kg of U-235	enrichment	form
Riga	Salaspils Institute of Nuclear Physics	0	NA	NA	3.6-4.0	90%	fresh fuel	GAO/RCED-96-4 NUCLEAR SAFETY, p. 23.
Baldone*	Radon State Enterprise	0.5	--	--	--	--	--	DIENA (Riga), 10/3/94, p. 4.

 KEY:  NA not applicable;
             --   information unknown
 

This material is produced independently for NTI by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. Copyright © 2003 by MIIS.

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