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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
Citizenship
Russia
Affiliations
- Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Member
- International Technical Working Group on Nuclear Forensics, Member
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- 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, )
- Using nuclear forensics to increase international nuclear security cooperation (Essay, )
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)