Evaluated screen

Nuclear Weapons Storage and Stockpile Stewardship

Identifies companies that manage, operate, or support facilities or services used for storing, securing, testing, servicing, refurbishing, or managing nuclear-weapons stockpiles or nuclear warheads.

Type
Evaluated
Version
2026.08.21.2
Published
Aug 21, 2026
Inclusions
5
Exclusions
5
How to read this definition

Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.

Can establish this activity

Included when supported

Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.

5 criteria
  1. 01Criterion

    Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Facility Operators

    Defined as: Companies that manage or operate facilities used to store, service, assemble, disassemble, refurbish, test, or steward nuclear weapons or nuclear warheads.

  2. 02Criterion

    Stockpile Stewardship Contractors

    Defined as: Companies providing science, engineering, surveillance, certification, reliability, or assurance services for the ongoing safety, security, or effectiveness of nuclear weapon stockpiles.

  3. 03Criterion

    Weapons-Grade Material Storage or Custody Providers

    Defined as: Companies managing custody, inventory, handling, or storage of weapons-grade nuclear materials or nuclear-warhead components for military stockpiles.

  4. 04Criterion

    Nuclear Weapons Depot and Bunker Management

    Defined as: Companies operating or managing depots, bunkers, vaults, or other storage locations specifically used for nuclear weapons, warheads, or nuclear-specific components.

  5. 05Criterion

    Mixed Warhead Stockpile Support

    Defined as: Companies supporting facilities that handle multiple nuclear warhead types or stockpile programmes where public sources do not identify the individual warhead types.

Does not establish this activity on its own

Excluded on this basis alone

These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.

5 criteria
  1. 01Criterion

    Civilian Nuclear Fuel or Waste Storage

    Defined as: Companies storing uranium, reactor fuel, spent fuel, radioactive waste, or other materials solely for civilian nuclear power, medical, research, or industrial uses.

  2. 02Criterion

    Humanitarian Disarmament or Treaty-Compliance Storage

    Defined as: Entities temporarily storing nuclear weapons or components only for verified dismantlement, destruction, disarmament, treaty compliance, or forensic analysis.

  3. 03Criterion

    Generic Warehousing Without Knowledge or Control

    Defined as: Warehousing, property, or logistics firms without knowledge of, control over, or contractual responsibility for nuclear-weapons contents or stockpile management.

  4. 04Criterion

    Environmental Remediation Only

    Defined as: Companies supporting nuclear-weapons sites solely through cleanup, remediation, waste removal, or environmental restoration without operational stockpile support.

  5. 05Criterion

    Civilian Nuclear Power Plant Support

    Defined as: Companies providing storage, security, maintenance, or waste services solely for civilian nuclear power plants or civilian fuel-cycle facilities.

Evidence and evaluation methodology

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Taxonomy version 2026.08.21.2, published Aug 21, 2026. Material changes receive a new immutable release so earlier evaluations remain tied to the definitions and criteria used.

Nuclear Weapons Support Services