A Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty and its Verification - International ...

Scope The Treaty should, of course, prohibit the production of all fissilematerials (plutonium Pu, highly enriched uranium HEU) for use innuclear weapons Production facilities should be closed and dismantled or only beused for civilian or non-explosive purposes. This should be verified.Production facilities are reprocessing plants (separating Pu fromspent radioactive fuel) and uranium enrichment facilities. The FM(C)T should require that all civilian stocks of fissilematerials and stocks declared excess for weapons purposes not beused for weapons and therefore be safeguarded. Verifying only nonproductionwould not be enough! Could include verified commitments that fissile material to beused for non-weapon military purposes (e.g. naval fuel) not beused for weapons.3