Cost Versus Risk: The Policy of Nuclear Weapon Maintenance of Tritium Based Limited Life Components

Abstract

This research develops a method to measure the cost to society of current maintenance policy for the exchange of tritium based limited life components within nuclear weapons. The incentives for the Department of Energy and Department of Defense which causes either a substantial cost or substantial risk to be accepted by either Department. A simulation model is created to measure the current policy and compare it to different policies in order to recommend a policy that would minimize the cost to society. The measurement of the cost to society will offer decision makers insight into the ramifications of their decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 23, 2017
Accession Number
AD1055152

Entities

People

  • Michael P. Mason

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Information
  • Governments
  • Identities
  • Law
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Mathematics
  • Measurement
  • Metadata
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Security
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Time Intervals
  • United States
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Strategic Security Studies