ML20148C279
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| Issue date: | 08/01/1978 |
| From: | James Shea NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP) |
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| SECY-78-416, NUDOCS 7811020005 | |
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August 1, 1978 COMMISSIONER ACTION For:
The Commissioners From:
James R. Shea, Director Office of International Programs Thru:
Executive Director for.0perations
Subject:
PROPOSED LICENSE AMEN 0 MENT,TO M 0W ENRICHED URANIUM TO SPAIN (WESTIN ff0VSE XSNM-844, AMENDMENT NO. 02)
Discussion:
In September 1976, expo TTcens number XSNM-844 was issued to Westinghouse ectr.ic Corporation to ship 146,345 kilograms of uranium enriched to 3.14%
U-235, to Spain as fuel for the initial cores of Almaraz Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2.
(SECY 76-388).
In November 1977, Westinghouse applied for amendments to XSNM-844 (1) to increase the quantity authorized for export by 64,610 kilograms of uranium, enriched to 3.2% U-235, and (2) to change the expiration date from January 1, 1978 to June 1, 1980.
(License Amer.dment 01, changing the expiration date, was issued December 6, 1977).
The following documents are forwarded for Commission review with respect to the requested increase in quantity:
(1) staff review and conclusion that the proposed export meets statutory requirements (Appendix A);
(2) Executive Branch views of May 8, 1978 recommending issuance (Appendix B); (3) application for license amendment (Appendix C); (4) copy of proposed license amendment (Appendix 0); and (5) State Department letter of June 20, 1978 (Appendix E).
Based upon its independent analysis and review of the Executive Branch submission, the staff has concluded that Spain currently meets all applicable statutory requirements of the.T:PA for the issuatice of this license.
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Additional staff views aM conclesions with respect (continued) to the export of low-enriche:I uranium to Spain for power purposes were set forth in several papers relating to the export of the initial core for the Cofrentes Nuclear Power Station (Refer:
SECY 77-557; SECY 77-557A (Confidential); and SECY 77-557B.)
While the physical security program at Almaraz is considered a:Hquate to protect the material covered under the proposed license, the written assurance (required by 10 CFR 110.43(b)), relating to physical protection has not been obtained from the Government of Spain.
(The Commission will recall that a proposed exemption from this requirement was discussed in SECY 78-291 for license applications received prior to May 19, 1978.
The staff plans to issue an exemption from this requirement if the Commission approves issuance of the licerse.
Because of special circumstances that currently exist in Spain, a detailed physical security analysis has been prepared by NMSS. The analysis will be forwarded separately.
The NMSS report concludes that the physical security program in effect at the Almaraz site is adequate for the purposes of this export.
With respect to exports to Spain, the Executive Branch has concluded that the US has assurance that Spain is committed to providing adequate physical security for its nuclear program, including a level of protection l
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in IAEA INFCIRC/225 (State letter at Appendix E).
Recorrrnendation:
That the proposed license amendment be issued to Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Coordination:
OELD has nu legal objection.
Nf1SS wishes to inform the Commission that it has not received country-specific information which permits it to make an independent conclusion as to the effectiveness of IAEA material control and accounting safeguards to deter and detect dive"sion in Spain.
./htJames R. $h(ea, Direqtortwb s s
M Cffice of International Programs
Enclosures:
As stated
, Commissioners' comments should be provided directly to the Office of the Secretary by c.o.b. Wednesday, August 9, 1978.
Commission Staff Office comments, if any, should be submitted to the Commissioners NLT August 7
'978, with an information copy to the Office of the Secretary.
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r is of such a nature that it requires additional time for analyti review and comment, the Commissioners and the Secretariat should be t
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DISTPIGUTION Commissioners Commission Staff Offices Exec Dir for Operations Secretariat
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JUL 3K Memorandum for the File Staff Conclusions Regarding Proposed License to Export Low-Enriched Urnaium to Spain (Westinghouse XSNM00844, Amendment No. 02)
Export license XSNM-844 was issued to Westinghouse Electric Corporation on September 17, 1976, following Commission review of that Company's request for authorization to ship low-enriched uranium fuel to Spain for initial core loadings of Almaraz Nuclear Power Plants, Units 1 and 2.
The license authorized the export of 14.6,345 kilograms of uranium, containing,3.830-kilograms U-235, enriched to 3.14% U-235.
Almaraz 1 and 2 are pressurized water reactors each with a net design out-put of 901.6 megawatts electric.
In November 1977, Westinghouse requested an amendment to license XSNM-844 to permit the export of an additional 64,610 kilograms of uranium, containing 2,068 kilograms U-235, enriched to 3.2% U-235, in two reloads ror Almaraz 1 and one reload for Almaraz 2.
The applicant also requested an extension of the license expiration date from January 1,1978 to June 1, 1980 and this extension was granted December 6, 1977.
In response to our November 17, 1977 request for views, the Executive Branch has determined that:
(1) the proposed export would not be inimical to the common defense and security of the United States, (2) would be subject tu all the terms and conditions of the Agreement for Cooperation between the US and Spain; (3) Spain has adhered to the provisions of its Agreement for Cooperation with the US, and (4) Spain has met the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act and P.L.95-252 with respect to this proposed export.
The views and analysis by the Executive Branch were forwarded by the State Department memorandum of May 8,1978.
Confirmation of the applicability of the US-Spain Agreement was set forth in a letter dated January 25, 1978 from the Embassy of Spain.
The staff has reviewed the subject application in light of the considerations below.
o Sa f egua rds_.
The export will be subject to IAEA safeguards, as will any special nuclear material generated therefrom, under the US-Spain-IAEA trilateral aareement on the the Application of Safeguards by the IAEA to the US-Spain Agreement for Cooperation. While Spain has not, as yet, accepted full-scope safeguards on all its nuclear facilities, discussions have been initiated with Spain concerning the renegotiation of the US-Spain APPENDIX A
. Agreement, as called for in Section 404(a) of P.L.95-242, and Spanish acceptance of full-scope safeguards will be pursued in these discussions.
In any event, export of the material contemplated by the subject application is expected to occur before March 10, 1980, the date on which US export of nuclear materialN6DTd be discontinued in the absence of full-scope IAEA safeguards.
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No Nuclear Explosive Use.
On spril 13, 1977, the Government of Spain, in response to a US note, agree to the understanding that US-supplied materials, equipment, devices, and special nuclear material generated therefrom will not be used for any nuclear explosive device, regardless of the intended use,of the device.
Further, pursuant to the terms of the US-Spain agreement of cooperation, Spain agrees not to use any such materials, equipment or devices for atomic weapons or for any military purpose.
o Physical Security.
The low enriched uranium proposed for export in this application is not a nuclear weapon material.
Nevertheless, the State Department has advised that th3 physical security measures maintained in Spain with respect to nuclear material and facilities are adequate to protect the material proposad for export in this application.
Based upon the staff's assessment of information obtained through visits, reviews and exchanges, and upon information provided by the Executive Branch, the physical security program in Spain is considered adequate to physically protect the requested material as required under 10 CFR 110.42 and 110.43.
o Retransfer. The US-Spain Agreement contains a provision prohibiting the reexport of US-supplied special nuclear material, unless the US agrees to such transfer, and then only if it is within the scope of a bilateral agreement for cooperation between the US and the nation to which it is being transferred or within an appropriate multi-lateral agreement.
The agreement also provides for US determinations regarding any proposed transfer to other nations or international organizations of special nuclear material which has been produced and separated from US-supplied material.
o Reprocessing. The US-Spain Agreement stipulates that any reprocessing oT US-supplied material shall be performed in facilities acceptable to both parties upon a joint determination that safeguards may be effectively applied.
o Sensitive Technology. The proposed export does not involve sensitive technology.
As more fully developed in its memorandum dated May 8,1978, the Executive Branch has determined that Spain currently meets all the criteria of P.L.95-242, including the requirements of Section 126(a)(1) and the specific criteria of Sections 127 and 128 and that Spain has adhered to all the provisions of its Agreement for Cooperation with the US.
The staff has concluded that issuance of the proposed license would be consistent with the recently enacted Nuclear Nonproliferation Act, including the specific criteria of Section 127.
In view of all the considerations above, and as required by Section 57 of the Atomic Energy Act and 10 CFR 110.44, the staff has the terms and conditions of the Agreement for Cooperation between the US and Spain, and (2) would not be inimical to the common defense and s'ecurity
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R. Neal Moore Senior Licensing Reviewer Office of International Programs
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SHEA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Enclosed is an Executive Branch analysis covering two license applications for the export of low-enriched uranium to Spain.
In accordance with P.L.95-242, the analysis explicitly addresses how the requirements of Section 126 a. (1) of the Atomic Energy Act are met, in-cluding the specific criteria of Sections 127 and 128, as well as certain additional factors, envisaged by Section 126 a.
(1).
The Executive Branch, on the basis of its review of these cases, has concluded that the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act and P.L.95-242 have been met and that the proposed exports would not be inimical to the common defense and security of the United States.
- Moreover, Spain has adhered to the provisions of its Agreement for Cooperation with the United States.
Therefore the Execu-tive Branch recommends issuance of the requested export licenses.
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EXPORT LICENSE APPLICATION ANALYSES Ultimate Consignee State:
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Low-Enriched Uranium Application Numbers:
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XSNM - 1147 B.
XSNM - 844 (Amendment)
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XSNM-844 Amendment s
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Amendment of Export License Number XSNM-844 for an additional 2,068 8
kilograms of U-235 contained in 64,610 kilograms of uranium enriched to_a maximum of 3.20 percent U-235 content partly in the form of fuel rods and partly as UO2 powder Applicant:
Westinghouse Electric Company e
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Reference:
WP-41190-AR 8, Unites 1 and 2 Date of Application:
November 2, 1977, amendment.
o Purpose of the Export This supply of enriched uranium in the form of fuel assemblies will be used in two fuel reloads for Almaraz No.
1 Nuclear Power Plant and in one reload for Almaraz No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant.
These plants will be used to generate electricity for the area near the town of Almaraz, located 165 miles southwest of Madrid.
Almaraz 1 and 2 are pressurized water reactors with a net design output of 901.6 megawatts electric and 2,696 megawatts thermal each.
The plants are owned and operated by three utility local companies, -- Compania Sevillana Electricidad, Hidroelectricia Espanola SA and Union Elec-tricia SA.
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In accordance with your letter of December 5, 1977 regarding the authorization requested by Westinghouse to increase the quantity of material authorized for export for the Almaraz 1 and 2 nuclear generating power-s tat ions in Spain, under Lin XSNM-844 (S-1Q8),
I am pleased to inform you that the Spanis' de Energia Nuclear has determined that the transfer of the addi al 2,060 kilograms of U-235 contained in 64,610 kilograms of ura..um, is covered by the clauses and conditions of the Agreement for Huclear Cooperation between the United States and Spain, and the corresponding Spanish Safeguards Agreement with the U.S. and the IAEA.
j Furthermore, we wish to confirm that Central Nuclear de Almaraz, as I
final consignee, is authorized to receive and possess the material.
Sincerely yours,
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4 SPAIN -- EXPORT LICENSE APPLICATION ANALYSIS 1.
Applicable Agreement for Cooperation The proposed export is subject to all of the terms and conditions of the Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and the Govern-ment of Spain concerning Civil Uses of Atomic Energy, which entered into force on June 28, 1974.
Spain has adhered to all provision" of its agreement with the United States.
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Extent to Which Export Criteria Are Met A.
Section 127 Criteria l
As provided in Section 127 of the Atomic Energy Act, the following criteria govern exports for peaceful nu-clear uses from the United States of source material, special nuclear material, production or utilization facili-ties, and any sensitive nucleag technology:
Criterion (1)
"IAEA safeguards as required by Article III(2) of the Treaty will be applied with respect to any such material or facilities proposed to be exported, to any such material j
or facilities previously exported and subject to the ap-plicable Agreement for Cooperation, and to any special nu-clear material used in or produced through the use thereof."
This enriched uranium and any special nuclear material generated therefrom is subject to safeguards under the tri-lateral Agreement between the U.S.,
Spain and the IAEA on the Application of Safeguards by the IAEA to the United as amended ( States-Spain Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force December 9, 1966,4 Under the 1-""-- bilateral agreement, U.S.
by an agree-sareguards rlgnts are suspended during the time and to the ment between extent that the U.S.
agrees that the need to exercise such the parties rights is satisfied by the trilateral agreement.
IAEA safe-which entered guards also are applied to any material or facilities pre-into force viously exported and to any material used in or produced June 28, 1974 through the use thereof under Ww/-m bilateral Agreement.
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Criterion (2)
"No such material, facilities, or sensitive nuclear technology proposed to be exported or previously exported and subject to the applicable Agreement for Cooperation, and no special nuclear material produced through the use of such materials, facilities, or sensitive nuclear tech-nology, will be used for any nuclear explosive device or for research on or development'of any nuclear explosive device."
The Government of Spain has accepted our note related to the Agreement for Cooperation signed on March 20, 1974 and in its response of April 13, 1977 has agreed that in connection with this agreement and the related trilateral safeguards agreement it is understood that U.S.-supplied materials, equipment, devices, and special nuclear material generated therefrom will not be used for any nuclear ex-plosive device, regardless of how the device itself is in-tended to be used and that the safeguards provided under the trilateral agreement will verify that such material is not so used.
Therefore, it is the Executive Branch view that cri-terion (2) is met.
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Criterion (3)
" Adequate physical security measures will be main-tained with respect to such material or facilities proposed to be exported and to any special nuclear material used in or produced through the use thereof.
Following the ef-fective date of any regulations promulgated by the Commission pursuant to Section 304(d),of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, physical security measures shall be deemed adequate if such measures provide a level of protection equivalent to that required by the applicable regulations."
The Commission has not, as yet, promulgated new regu-lations pursuant to Section 304 (d) of P.L.95-242.
The Executive Branch has assessed the physical security measures maintained in Spain with respect to nuclear material and facilities and determined that they are adequate for the material covered by these license applications.
Therefore, it is the view of the Executive Branch that criterion (3) is met.
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Criterion (4)
"No such materials, facilities, or sensitive nuclear technology proposed to be exported, and no special nuclear material produced through the use of such material, will be retransferred to the jurisdiction of any other nation or group of nations unless the prior approval of the United In addition to States is obtained for such.. retransfer.the United States may approve such other requirements of law, retransfer only if the nation or group of nations designated to receive such retransfer agrees that it shall be subject to the conditions required by this section."
Article X (3) of the 1974 U.S. - Spain Agreement for "No material, including equip-Cooperation provides that: transferred to the Government of Spain or ment and devices, to authorized persons unter its jurisdiction pursuant to this Agreement or the superseded Agreement will be transferred to unauthorized persons or beyond the jurisdiction of the Government of Spain except as the Commission may agree to such a transfer to the jurisdiction of another nation or in the opinion of the I
group of nations, and then only if, the transfer is within the scope of an Agree-Commission, for Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and the other nation or group of nations."
ment Article XI B. provides, inter alia, that:
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notwith-the Government of the United States of America, standing any other provisions of this Agreement shall have the following rights:
"(2) With respect to any source or special nuclear material made available to the Government of Spain or any person under its jurisdiction by the Government of the United States of America or any person under its juris-diction and any source or special nuclear material utilized in, recovered from, or produced, as a result of the use of any of the following materials, equipment, or devices so made available:
"(a) source material, special nuclear material, modera-tor material, or other material designated by the Commission,"
" (ii) to require that any such material in the custody of the Government of Spain or any person under its juris-to all of the safeguards provided for in diction be subject this Article and the guaranties set forth in Article X;"
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These articles give the U.S. an unqualified approval right over the retransfer of material from Spain supplied or produced through the use of such material *and by the U.S.
allow retransfers only if it is determined to be within the scope of an agreement for cooperation with the recipient This right would apply to irradiated fuel be-country.
cause it contains U.S.-supplied material.
it is the Executive Branch view that, as Therefore, has the right of prior approval over retransfer of the U.S.
U.S.-surplied material and material produced through the use of U.S. material, criterion (4) is met.
IP staff notes that this provision is explicitly covered in Article VIIIE of the Agreement.
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Criterion (5)
"No such material proposed to be exported and no special nuclear material produced through the use of such and no irradiated fuel ele-material will be reprocessed, ments containing such material removed from a reactor shall unless the prior approval of be altered in form or content, the United States is obtained for such reprocessing or al-teration."
Spain Agreement for Co-Article VIII C. of the U.S."When any special nuclear material operation provides that: received from the United States of America pursuant to this Agreement or to the superseded Agreement requires re-or any irradiated processing, material received from the United States of America pursuant to this Agreement or to the superseded Agreement are to be removed from a reactor and are to be altered in form orsuch reprocess in facilities acceptable to both parties upon a joint de-XI may be effectively
- content, termination that the provisions of Artic q applied."
As no joint determination unde-Article VIII C. can be and since made without the agreement of the United States, the facilities to be used must be acceptable to the U.S.
as is the view of the Executive Branch one of the Parties, it that criterion (5) is met.
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Criterion (6)
"No such sensitive nuclear technology shall be ex-ported unless the foregoing conditions shall be applied to any nuclear material or equipment which is produced or con-structed under the jurisdiction of the recipient nation or group of nations by or through the use of any such exported sensitive nuclear technology."
The proposed exports do not involve sensitive nuclear technology.
Criterion (6) is, therefore, not applicable.
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B.
Section 128 Criterion Section 128 a. (1) of the Atomic Energy Act establishes the following additional criterion:
"As a condition of continued United States export of source material, special nuclear material, production or utilization facilities, and any sensitive nuclear technology to non-nuclear-weapon states, no such export shall be made unless IAEA safeguards are maintained with respect to all peaceful nuclear activi-ties in, under the jurisdiction of, or carried out under the control of such state at the time of the export."
It should be noted that this criterion only applies to exports to take place after March 10, 1980 or pursuant to an application submitted after September 10, 1979.
We anticipate that this export will occur before March 10, 1980.
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Additional Factors Safeguards Implementation -- Significant infor-mation the Executive Branch possesses bearing onthe A.
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including any such information guards in Spain, any identified on steps being taken to correctdeficiencies in the application of IA in that country.
The IAEA Secretariat has concluded in its Special Safe-guards Implementation Report that with regard to nuclear i
material subject to IAEA safeguards, while some deficienc es in-exist in the system, "in none of the 41 states in which spections were carried out was there any diversion of a Although recog-significant quantity of nuclear material".nizing the need to correc the Executive Branch has no reason guards implementation, to believe that the IAEA Secretariat's conclusion is not a valid one with specific regard to nuclear material subject In the light to the U.S.-IAEA Agreement for Cooperation.
of this and other factors associated with the proposed ex-the Executive Branch believes the framework of com-assurances, and safeguards is adequate for the
- port, mitments, purposes of this export.
The Spanish currently have one reactor, Vandellos I,In response to ou not under IAEA safeguards.
year, the French have stated that this reactor, which is a is under French bilateral joint Spanish/ French project, is such that all In addition, the arrangement fuel from the reactor is returned to France for reprocessing, safeguards.
with resulting recovered plutonium retained in France.
We have recently initiated discussions with the Spanish Government concerning renegotiation of the US-Spain Agree-A key ele is the requirement of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of ment for Cooperation.
to seek universal NPT adherence and, as recipients have all of their 1978 (P.L.95-242) a minimum, to require that U.S.
nuclear activities under IAEA safeguards 24 months after enactment (March 10, 1980) as a condition of U.S.
supply.
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lation was extensively discussed with the Spanish authorities who expressed no difficulty in principle with the idea of APPENDIX B-14
applying IAEA safeguards to the Vandellos reactor project and said that they would look into the matter.
We expect to further pursue Spanish acceptance of full-scope safe-guards and other upgrading of our existing agreement for cooperation under the renegotiations called for in section 404 (a) of P.L.95-242 in discussions tentatively scheduled for mid-1978.
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Inimicality Judgment Based on review of the proposed exports, it is the judgment of the Executive Branch that the proposed export will not be inimical to the common defense and security, and that the license and the amendment should be issued.
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Subject:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fuel Export License No. XSNM-844
Dear Sir:
The subject license was issued to Westinghouse Electric Corporation September 17, 1976 for the export of fuel assemblies containing 3,830 kilograms of Uranium-235 contained in 146,345 kilograms of Uranium enriched to 3.14 w/o maximum in Uranium-235.
The fuel assemblies will be exported to Spain for use at the Almaraz Nuclear Generating Power Stations numbers 1 and 2.
We are requesting an amendment to this license be issued whic'h will permit the export of an additional 2,068 kilograms of Uranium-235 contained in 64,610 kilograms of Uranium enriched to 3.20 w/o maximum in Uranium-235.
These additional amounts will be used in two fuel reloads for Almaraz No. I and one fuel reload for Almaraz No. 2.
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This will be done in accordance with U. S. NRC license SNM-1107, docket number 70-1151; U. S. DOT IAEA certification number USA /5450/BF, Revision 2.
The U0, powder will be packaged in Westinghouse Model BB-250-2 shipping contaiher, in accordance with IAEA certificate of competent authority, certificate number USA /5768/BF, Revision 1.
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powder will be supplied by Westinghouse Electric The fuel rods and U0,ia, South Carolina. The first shipment is currently Corporation at Columb scheduled to commence April 1,1979 and the last shipment is currently scheduled for December 1,1980.
An end use statement from the Spanish utility, Central Nuclear de Almaraz, is attached.
Plea.se contact this office should you have any questions relating to this amendment request.
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Subject:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Export License XSNM-844
Dear Sir:
The subject license was granted to Westinghouse Electric Corporae.on on 17, 1976 with an expiration date of January 1, 1978 for the September export of nuclear fuel assemblies to Central Nuclear de Almaraz, Spain.
Due primarily to changes in the construction schedule at the site in Spain, it is requested an amendment to the subject license be granted changing the expiration date to June 1, 1980.
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SHEA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION An Executive Branch analysis covering two license applications for the export of low-enriched uranium to Spain was transmitted to the Commission under cover of my memorandum to you dated May 8, 1978, recommending is-suance of the requested licenses.
In connection with that and other recommendations regarding proposed nuclear exports to Spain, it should be noted that, in the judgment of the Executive Branch, Spain is committed to maintaining adequate physical-se-curity for its nuclear program, meeting as a minimum, a
level of protecticn compatible with that envisaged by IAEA INFCIRC/225.
In addition to the factors cited in the May 8 Analysis under criterion (3), this judgment is enforced by information obtained in the visit to Spain in April 1976.
During that visit, the Team noted that concerned' officials of the Junta de Energia Nuclear were keenly aware of the need for adequate security including anti-terrorist measures.
Security of facilities was noted to be adequate with primary protection provided by the Guardia Civil, a paramilitary organization under the Ministry of Interior having country-wide responsibility for maintaining law and order.
Although no formal regu-lations exist for licensing nuclear facilities, a procedure has been established for the Junta to review and approve security plans submitted by government and private nuclear installations.
The Junta also conductr; inspections of facilitic~ ind can direct changes to a plan, if, in its judgment.
.sar. changes are required.
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Therefore, the IAEA guidelines carry great weight.
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