ML20212N196

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Requests Executive Branch Position Re Transnuclear,Inc Application to Export 200,000 Ci Tritium Gas to Switzerland
ML20212N196
Person / Time
Issue date: 01/16/1987
From: Peterson M
NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP)
To: Thorne C
STATE, DEPT. OF, BUREAU OF OCEANS & INTL. ENVIRONMENT
References
NUDOCS 8701300363
Download: ML20212N196 (1)


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Mr. Carlton E. Thorne, Director Office of Nuclear Export and Import Control Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mr. Thorne:

Enclosed please find a request from Transnuclear, Inc. to export 200,000 curies of tritium gas to the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research in Villigen, Switzerland for fundamental research; 110,000 curies will be provided by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and 90,000 curies by Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The tritium will be returned after completion of the experiments.

Before taking action on this license 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 Non-Proliferation Act of 1978.

Sincerely, f(L 5r/

h Marvin R. Peterson, Assistant Director Export / Import and International Safeguards Office of International Programs

Enclosure:

Appl. dtd. 1-5-87 (XB001246-Switzerland) cc w/ enclosure:

Mr. T. Hart, DOE Ms. N. Martin, DOE Mr. R. DeLaBarre, DOS Mr. G. Oplinger, 000 Mr. Gary Bray, ACDA

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