Browsing by Author "Høibråten, Steinar"

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    • AMEC Project 1.1-1: Design, Construction, and Commissioning into Test Operation of a Storage Pad for Transportable Metal-Concrete Containers for the Interim Storage of Russian Naval Spent Nuclear Fuel 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Gran, Hans Christian; Foshaug, Evelyn; Dyer, Robert S.; Barnes, Eleonora; Sveshnikov, Valerii; Snipes, Randall L. (2007)
      Northwest Russia contains large quantities of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from naval reactors that potentially threaten the environmental security of the surrounding Arctic Region. The majority of the SNF from the Russian ...

    • AMEC Project 1.1: Development and Manufacture of a Prototype Transportable Interim Storage Container for Damaged and Undamaged Spent Nuclear Fuel 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Endregard, Monica; Foshaug, Evelyn; Dyer, Robert S.; Snipes, Randall L.; Balkunov, Vladimir; Spargo, Barry J.; Makarchuk, Tatyana; Griffith, Andrew R. (2006)
      The purpose of Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation (AMEC) Project 1.1 was to develop and manufacture a prototype 45 ton container for the interim storage of spent and damaged nuclear fuel removed from strategic ...

    • Ammunisjon med utarmet uran : bakgrunn og virkninger 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Dullum, Ove; Aas, Pål (2001)
      The report initially discusses the physical properties of depleted uranium and the uses of this material. Weapons applications are presented in detail. This is followed by an extensive discussion of possible health effects ...

    • Atomprogrammene i India, Pakistan, Nord-Korea, Israel, Iran og Syria 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Breivik, Hanne; Enger, Elin; Heireng, Hege Schultz; Kippe, Halvor (2011-01-23)
      Denne rapporten beskriver og diskuterer atomprogrammene i faktiske og noen mulige kjernevåpenstater utenom de fem stormaktene USA, Russland, Storbritannia, Frankrike og Kina, som gjennom Ikke-spredningsavtalen for ...

    • En vurdering av Indias og Pakistans kjernevåpenprogrammer 

      Toft, Heidi Kristine; Høibråten, Steinar (2004)
      This summary report presents the nuclear weapons programmes in India and Pakistan as well as the underlying reasons for this regional nuclear race. It is estimated that the two countries have produced sufficient quantities ...

    • The environmental impact of the sunken submarine Komsomolets 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Haugan, Are; Thoresen, Per (2003)
      The report is an analysis of the environmental effects of the sunken nuclear submarine Komsomolets. It presents the facts about the submarine and its nuclear inventory as these were known in 1995 and discusses the ...

    • Environmental risk assessment for non-defuelled, decommissioned nuclear submarines 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Blaauboer, Roelf O.; Chagrot, Michel; Engøy, Thor; Hadonina, Dzidra; Jansone, Anda; Kupca, Stefan; Lynn, Neil MacKinley; Natalizio, Antonio; Ortenzi, Vanio; Salmins, And (2007)
      The report is a reprint of a subset of the results of a 1998 NATO Pilot Study. Possible accident scenarios involving decommissioned nuclear submarines are discussed. Criticality accidents are found to be the potentially ...

    • Long-range tropospheric transport of uranium and plutonium weapons fallout from Semipalatinsk nuclear test site to Norway 

      Wendel, Cato; Fifield, L. Keith; Oughton, Deborah Helen; Lind, Ole Christian; Skipperud, Lindis; Bartnicki, Jerzy; Tims, S.; Høibråten, Steinar; Salbu, Brit (2013)
      A combination of state-of-the-art isotopic fingerprinting techniques and atmospheric transport modelling using real-time historical meteorological data has been used to demonstrate direct tropospheric transport of radioactive ...

    • Nuclear weapons – worldwide situation 2021 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Kippe, Halvor; Enger, Elin; Schiller, Andreas (2021-09-14)
      This report is based on open sources and provides an overview of the current status and recent developments in the nuclear weapons arsenals of the world’s nine nuclear-weapon possessing states. The brief sections on each ...

    • Operativ bruk av ikke-dødelige våpen 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Kippe, Halvor (2003)
      The report gives a brief introduction to non-lethal weapons in general and FFI's work in the field. This is followed by short descriptions of a number of scenarios suitable for the use of non-lethal weapons.

    • Reaktordrevne fartøyer og deres eventuelle kjernevåpen : en oversikt ved årsskiftet 2015/2016 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Breivik, Hanne (2016-08-29)
      En rekke stater har reaktordrevne fartøyer. De fleste av disse har strategisk og taktisk militær betydning, og i tillegg representerer de en ulykkesrisiko som igjen kan føre til spredning av radioaktiv forurensning i ...

    • Russiske kjernefysiske styrker 

      Høibråten, Steinar; Kippe, Halvor (2020-08-20)
      Målet med denne rapporten er å gi en bred oversikt over kjernevåpenforholdene i vårt store naboland i øst, Russland, den eneste kjernevåpenstaten som Norge grenser til på landjorda. Det innebærer ikke bare en oversikt ...

    • Samfunnsutvikling frem mot 2030 – utfordringer for politiet, PST og påtalemyndigheten 

      Sellevåg, Stig Rune; Bergh, Arild; Bruvoll, Janita; Høibråten, Steinar; Jacobsen, Hedda Lærum; Strand, Martin; Barland, Bjørn (2021-05-20)
      Denne rapportens formål har vært å beskrive hva samfunnsutviklingen kan bety for det fremtidige utfordringsbildet som politiet, Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste (PST) og påtalemyndigheten kan møte frem mot 2030. Det fremtidige ...

    • Tritium production 

      Høibråten, Steinar (2020-06-22)
      Tritium is an important material used in most, if not all, nuclear weapons. It is therefore also of importance in the field of export control. This report discusses production methods and availability of this hydrogen ...