[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 77 (Friday, April 20, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17545-17546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08284]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Proposed Subsequent Arrangement
AGENCY: National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Proposed subsequent arrangement.
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SUMMARY: This document is being issued under the authority of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The Department is providing
notice of a proposed subsequent arrangement under the Agreement between
the Government of the United States of America and the Government of
Australia Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the Agreement
for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy between the
United States of America and the European Atomic Energy Community
(Euratom).
DATES: This subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than May
7, 2018 and after 15 days of continuous session of the Congress has
elapsed, beginning the day after the date on which the reports required
under section 131b.(1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,
are submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. The two time periods referred to above may
run concurrently.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Sean Oehlbert, Office of
Nonproliferation and Arms Control, National Nuclear Security
Administration, Department of Energy. Telephone: 202-586-3806 or email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This subsequent arrangement concerns the
retransfer of 507,713 g of U.S.-obligated
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low enriched uranium, 61,535 g of which is in the isotope of U-235
(12.12 percent enrichment), and 4,427 g of plutonium, in the form of
236 irradiated fuel assemblies from the Open Pool Australian Lightwater
(OPAL) research reactor at the Australian Nuclear Science and
Technology Organisation in Australia, to Orano (formerly AREVA NC) at
the La Hague reprocessing plant in France. The material in the
irradiated fuel assemblies, which is currently located at the OPAL
reactor, is to be retransferred to the La Hague plant for reprocessing.
Orano will take title to the plutonium recovered during reprocessing,
which will be incorporated into fresh civilian mixed oxide fuel
assemblies. Residual plutonium that is not removed during reprocessing
will be vitrified in canisters, which will be returned to Australia at
a later time.
In accordance with section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, I have determined that this subsequent arrangement concerning
the retransfer of U.S.-obligated special nuclear material for
reprocessing will not be inimical to the common defense and security of
the United States of America and made the judgment that it will not
result in a significant increase in the risk of proliferation beyond
that which exists now, or which existed at the time approval was
requested.
Dated: April 10, 2018.
For the Department of Energy.
Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty,
Under Secretary for Nuclear Security Administrator, National Nuclear
Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018-08284 Filed 4-19-18; 8:45 am]
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