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{{short description|American non-profit organization}}
The '''Nuclear Control Institute''' is a research and advocacy center for preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism. The non-profit organization was founded by Paul Leventhal in 1981. It went under a reorganization in 2003 to make it a [[World Wide Web|web]]-based program. The institute is supported by the donations of philanthropic foundations and individuals.

The Nuclear Control Institute is particularly focused on the elimination of [[Chemistry:Plutonium|plutonium]] and highly [[Physics:Enriched uranium|enriched uranium]], which can be used to create [[Engineering:Nuclear weapon|nuclear weapon]]s, from [[Engineering:Nuclear power plant|nuclear power plant]]s and [[Physics:Research reactor|research reactor]]s, and preventing plutonium and highly enriched uranium from dismantled nuclear weapons from being disposed of in commercial reactors. This means that they are strongly opposed to the use of [[Physics:MOX fuel|mixed oxide fuel]].

Tom Clements is the executive director.

==See also==
*Anti-nuclear movement in the United States

==References==
*[http://www.nci.org/new/about-nci.htm Nuclear Control Institute - About]

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