The United States and Russia Evaluate Plutonium Disposition Options with Multiattribute Utility Theory

John C. Butler (), Alexander N. Chebeskov (), James S. Dyer (), Thomas A. Edmunds (), Jianmin Jia () and Vladimir I. Oussanov ()
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John C. Butler: Fisher School of Business, Ohio State University, 2100 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Alexander N. Chebeskov: Department for Nuclear Power and Plutonium Disposition, Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk Kaluga Region, Bondarenko Square 1, 249033 Russia
James S. Dyer: Department of Management Science and Information Systems, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Thomas A. Edmunds: Systems and Decision Sciences Section, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550
Jianmin Jia: Faculty of Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
Vladimir I. Oussanov: Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk Kaluga Region, Bondarenko Square 1, 249033 Russia

Interfaces, 2005, vol. 35, issue 1, 88-101

Abstract: At the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia entered into agreements to reduce the numbers of nuclear weapons in their arsenals. The excess-weapons plutonium recovered from dismantled weapons is extremely toxic in the environment, and the National Academy of Sciences has characterized the possibility that it could fall into the hands of terrorists as a “clear and present danger.” A team of operations research analysts supported the Office of Fissile Materials Disposition (OFMD) in the US Department of Energy (DOE) by developing a multiattribute utility (MAU) model to evaluate alternatives for the disposition of the excess-weapons plutonium. Russian scientists modified the model with the aid of the US team and used it to evaluate Russia's disposition alternatives.

Keywords: government: agencies; decision analysis: multiple criteria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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