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Requests Executive Branch View Re Application from Monsanto Corp to Export Pu-238 for Use as Heat Stds for Calorimeter Calibr in Italy
ML20151Z096
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Issue date: 08/18/1988
From: Peterson M
NRC OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS (GPA)
To: Thorne C
STATE, DEPT. OF, BUREAU OF OCEANS & INTL. ENVIRONMENT
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AVG 1 8 1988 Mr. Carlton E. Thorne. Director Office of Nuclear Export and Import Control Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs 4

U.S. Department of State l

Washington, D.C.

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Dear Mr. Thorne:

I Enclosed please find a requst from Monsanto Research Corporation to export 85 grams of metal encapsulated plutonium-238 for use as heat standards for calorimeter calibration at the EURATOM Joint Research Center in Italy.

Before taking action on this request, we would appreciate your views, in accordance with established procedures and from the overall perspective of the Executive Branch, as to whether the proposed export meets the applicable criteria in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as amended by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978.

l Sincerely, j

l Ab r61n n.ieTerson. Assistant Director i

for International Security I

Office of Governmental and Public i

Affairs

Enclosure:

Appl. dtd. 8/10/88 (X5NM02394 - Italy) 1 i

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