83 FR 17545 - Proposed Subsequent Arrangement

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 77 (April 20, 2018)

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).

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 77 (Friday, April 20, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17545-17546]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[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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