SOVIET NUCLEAR PROGRAMS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005577299
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-01671
• Publication Date: September 25, 1969

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 AVAILABILITY OF FISSIONABLE !ATERIALS FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS
.peaceful purposes or for. weapons programs which we cannot.
now project, might lead to significant increases in annual
with-employment of: large numbers of nuclear explosives, for
Plutonium. The USSR has large reactor complexes at.
Kyshtym in the Urals and at Tomsk in western Siberia.
There is also a large nuclear complex at Dodonovo, north
of Krasnoyarsk in central Siberia, which may have one or
more reactors installed underground. The reactors at, Tomsk
probably went into operation late in 1966 and 1968,
respectively, and represent, the only addition to production
reactor capacity in the past several years. Additional
capacity may be under construction.
After 1974. annual Sovie uroduction of, plutonium in
product ion. reactors will increasingly be affected by. current
and future decisions and ac; ions that we cannot 'now detect
or confidently predict. Ful.?illment of military .needs
and the increasing availability of plutonium frompower and
propulsion reactors might lead to the shutdown of a'-large
portion of the Soviet production.reactor' capacity: Conversely,
:additional needs for. reactor products, perhaps in. connection.
rates .of .production` after, 1974..
The. _Soviets,a1so.produce plutonium in a..growing number
of -power and propu-lsion' reactors. .rnis plutonium could be
6&1-n nuclear weapons by .blending it with- material from'
designs. The Soviets :_ probably are'more likely--at 'l'eas.t,
production reactors or:.by,_ appropriate, choice o:f weapon,
After; 1974 the rapidity with which: the ;cumulative plutonium
r`eactors to,, meet future needs' for...'fast 'breeder; reactor