ML19350A205

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Requests Executive Branch Position Re Encl GE Lighting Business Corp Application for License to Export 400 Kg Thorium Oxide Contained in Liquid Slurry Mixture to Brazil Over 2-yr Period.W/O Encl
ML19350A205
Person / Time
Issue date: 03/06/1981
From: Devine J
NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP)
To: Helfrich G
STATE, DEPT. OF, BUREAU OF OCEANS & INTL. ENVIRONMENT
References
NUDOCS 8103130023
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Dear Mr. Helfrich:

Enclosed please find an application from General Electric Company, Lighting Business Corp., for a license to export a total of 400 kilograms of thorium oxide contained in a ligt.id sitrry mixture to Brazil over a two-year period for use as coatings for electrodes in mercury vapor lamps.

Individual shipments of the throium oxide will not exceed 50.0 kilograms and total shipments will not exceed 200 kilograms per year.

Before taking action on this license application, we would appreciate your views in accordance with established procedures as to whether the proposed export meets the applicable criteria in the Atomic Energy Act as amended by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978.

Sincerely,

% h' Jame s B. Devine, Assistant Director Ep t/ Import and International Safeguards Off ce of International Programs

Enclosure:

Appl. dtd 2/16/81 (XT08514) cc w/ enclosure:

Mr. Michael McDonough, DOE Mr. Richard L. Williamson, ACDA/NP/NX Ms. Sheila Buckley, 000 Ms. Natalie Martin, DOE Mr. Dan Cook, DOC Mr. Robin DeLaBarre, DOS 8103130023