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9 General Discussion and Suggested Future Actions
Pages 141-146

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... Another suggestion would be to discuss Human Reliability Programs for personnel in more detail in the future. Another participant from India recalled the joint statement between the leaders of India and the United States during President Barak Obama's visit in November 2010, where "They expressed a commitment to strengthen international cooperative activities that will reduce the risk of terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons or material." Participants in this workshop would be acting in accordance with this statement by trying to develop specific ideas or proposals to further the goal stated by the leaders.
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From page 142...
... In particular, one possibility which is a little ambitious, but which should be considered, the participant said, is the formation of a joint, publicly-announced team capable of offering services for detection and forensic investigation of an incidence of illicit trafficking to any country in the world that feels handicapped or feels the need for them. Such a joint team could be a measure of taking things forward and building a profile as two open societies, both with advanced nuclear capabilities.
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From page 143...
... Nuclear power and nuclear materials present dangers whereby an incident anywhere around the world influences profoundly nuclear power everywhere around the world, and we have mentioned Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, but we can also imagine many other such instances. Nuclear sabotage and terrorism are also key issues, whether an incident were to involve radiological dispersion or even the more extreme, and hopefully the much less likely the possibility of an improvised nuclear device.
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... Issues of protocols and standards, among others, are very important in this area, and clearly we can benefit from expertise in India and in the United States because both of our countries have tech nical expertise in these areas and we acknowledge that these are rapidly developing areas of technology and, by implication, rapidly evolving threat areas potentially.
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... Immediately after the Chernobyl accident, Andrei Sakharov said, "Plainly, mankind cannot renounce nuclear power, so we must find technical means to guarantee absolute safety and exclude the possibility of another accident. The solution I favor would be to build reactors underground deep enough so that in the worst-case accident would not discharge radioactive substances into the atmosphere." And Teller said, "My solution in regard to the containment of nuclear material in case of an accident is to place nuclear reactors 300 to 1000 feet underground.
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