[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 207 (Monday, October 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 61238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-27011]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Request for a License To Export Plutonium

    Pursuant to 10 CFR 110.70(b)(2) ``Public notice of receipt of an 
application,'' please take notice that the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission has received the following request for a license to export 
plutonium. Copies of the request are available electronically through 
ADAMS and can be accessed through the Public Electronic Reading Room 
(PERR) link <http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html at the 
NRC Homepage.
    A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene may be 
filed within 30 days after publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register. Any request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene 
shall be served by the requestor or petitioner upon the applicant, the 
Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington DC 20555; the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555; and the Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of 
State, Washington, DC 20520.
    In its review of the request for a license to export plutonium 
noticed herein, the Commission does not evaluate the health, safety or 
environmental effects in the recipient nation of the material to be 
exported. The information concerning this request follows.

                                                      NRC Export License Application for Plutonium
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   Name of applicant  Date of                                   Description of Material
           application           ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------                                                                                           End use         Country of
   Date received  Application                   Material type                               Type qty                                        destination
      number  Docket number
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Department of Energy (DOE)--      Plutonium Oxide Powder..................  140.0 kg Pu 02/123.48 kg Pu.............  Fabrication of             France.
 Headquarters.                                                                                                         four MOX lead
October 1, 2003.................                                                                                       assemblies to be
October 6, 2003, XSNM03327,                                                                                            returned to the
 11005440.                                                                                                             U.S. for testing
                                                                                                                       in commercial
                                                                                                                       reactors.
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    Dated this 17th day of October 2003 at Rockville, Maryland.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Edward T. Baker,
Deputy Director, Office of International Programs.
[FR Doc. 03-27011 Filed 10-24-03; 8:45 am]
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