
410 Nuclear Forensic Analysis
19.8 REFERENCE DATA FOR ENHANCED INTERPRETATION:
FORENSIC DATABASES
Driven by law enforcement desires to determine the origin of illicitly trafcked
nuclear materials, as well as by concerns that a nonstate actor or terrorist organi-
zation
could acquire sufcient material to assemble a nuclear explosive device, an
international consensus to identify and characterize nuclear materials by NFA has
recently emerged. By identifying material characteristics, process history, original
intended use, production location, and route(s) that material traveled from loss of
lawful control to point of interdiction, ...