ML19254D992
| ML19254D992 | |
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| Site: | 07001684 |
| Issue date: | 10/05/1979 |
| From: | Nosenzo L STATE, DEPT. OF, BUREAU OF OCEANS & INTL. ENVIRONMENT |
| To: | James Shea NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP) |
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| NUDOCS 7910300406 | |
| Download: ML19254D992 (2) | |
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Director of International Programs United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Room 6714 - MNBB Bethesda, Maryland
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Cear Mr. Shea:
I refer to your letter dated March 15, 1979, re-questing formal Executive Branch views as to whether extension of a license to export plutonium to Japan (NRC No. XSNM-510) should be considered as an exception to, or exempted from, the Presidert's plutonium export policy.
The Executive Branch formally confirms its previous
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recom=endation, conveyed to you in our letter of November 27, 1978, that the request to extend licensy XSNM-510 be granted.
Moreover, it is the view of the Executive Branch that the following f actors should be taken into account by the NRC in the consideration of this license extension request by Westinghouse:
- 1) The case should be considered " grandfathered" because it predates the three cases specifi-cally mentioned in the November 14, 1977 memorandum to the President -- XSNM-510 had already been issued in November 1977, where-as the three cases cited in the 1977 memo were pending license applications.
- 2) We are unaware of any intention on the part af the President to tascind or otherwise re-E strict existing licenses for the export of i
plutonium for mutually acceptable purposes to countries with appropriate non-prolifera-tion credentials.
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- 3) Extension of license.SNM-510 to permit
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- 4) The extension, therefore, should not be treated as an exception to the Preside.;'s pluton.um export policy, but rather con-siderea as falling within the guidelines of that pclicy.
- 5) The balance of material remaining to be exrorted under license XSNM-510, although slightly in excess of one kilogram, is but a small percentage of the amount of plutonium originally authorized for e : Port under this license.
I hope that the foregoing will be helpful to the Commission in its review of the extension request.
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