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Vitaly Fedchenko
Senior Researcher
Vitaly Fedchenko
Vitaly Fedchenko is a Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme, responsible for nuclear security issues and the political, technological and educational dimensions of nuclear arms control and non-proliferation. He is the author or co-author of multiple publications on nuclear forensics, nuclear security, and nuclear non-proliferation.
Subject expertise
Nuclear technology; strategic forces technology; nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear materials and fuel, uranium and plutonium; nuclear warheads, nuclear forensics and verification
Regional expertise
Russia
CONTACT Vitaly Fedchenko
Languages
Russian, English, Swedish
Education
BA and MA in Nuclear Physics, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
Affiliations
- Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Member
- International Technical Working Group on Nuclear Forensics, Member
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Europe should help repair the damage to non-proliferation and international law from the attacks on Iran (Essay, )
- Small modular reactors may have climate benefits, but they can also be climate-vulnerable (Blog, )
- Is there hope for nuclear disarmament? (Blog, )
- Nuclear power and the European Energy Security Strategy (Essay, )
- Explosive potential of North Korean missiles still more diplomatic than nuclear (Expert comment, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Nuclear Security During Armed Conflict: Lessons From Ukraine (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2023)
- Nuclear Security in Ukraine and the Black Sea Region: New Threats, New Risks, New Consequences (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2023)
- Nuclear Security in the Black Sea Region: Contested Spaces, National Capacities and Multinational Potential (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2018)
- Nuclear Forensics as Nuclear Material Analysis for Security Purposes (June 2017)
- Phosphate Fertilizers as a Proliferation-relevant Source of Uranium (May 2017)
- The New Nuclear Forensics2015) pp. 280
- North Korea’s Nuclear Test Explosion, 2009 (December 2009) 8 pp.
- Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group2007)
External publications
- Fedchenki, V. (co-author), Sustaining Human Resources in the Area of Prevention, Detection and Response to Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material Out of Regulatory Control, World Institute for Nuclear Security (May 2022)
- Fedchenko, V. and Kelley, R. E., New methodology offers estimates for North Korean thermonuclear stockpile, Jane’s Intelligence Review (July 2020)
- Contribution to Wolfrum, R. (ed), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Fedchenko, V., Weapons of mass analysis, Jane’s Intelligence Review, vol. 19, no. 11 (Nov. 2007)