ML23332A123
| ML23332A123 | |
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| Issue date: | 11/16/2023 |
| From: | NRC/OCIO |
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| REF-2023-000006, FOIA | |
| Download: ML23332A123 (4) | |
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Memorandum of Cooperation Between The Government of the United States of America Herein Represented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the United States of America (NRC) and The Government of the Republic of South Africa Herein Represented by The Department of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa (DME)
Providing for the Exchange of Information and Co*Operation in Nuclear Safety, Safeguards, and Physical Security September 22, 2004
Memorandum of Cooperation Between The Government of the United States of America Herein Represented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the United States of America (NRC) and The Government of the Republic of South Africa Herein Represented by The Department of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa
{DME)
Providing for the Exchange of Information and Co-Operation in Nuclear Safety, Safeguards, and Physical Security The "Memorandum of Co-Operation {MOC) Between the Government of the United States of America, Herein Represented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the United States of America (NRC), and the Government of the Republic of South Africa, Herein Represented by the Department of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa {DME), Providing for the Exchange of Information and Co-Operation in Nuclear Safety, Safeguards, and Physical Security" was concluded on February 17, 1999.
Guided by their desire to continue the Arrangement, the participants hereby extend the MOC for a further five-year period.
Done at Vienna, Austria, on this 22nd day of September 2004.
FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission FOR THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA:
Lulu Xingwana Deputy Minister Department of Minerals and Energy
Fl-2021-00490 A-00000566015 "UNCLASSIFIED" JOINT STATEMENT CONCERNING 7/12/2023 ENHANCEMENT OF REGULATORY OVERSIGHT OF CORE CONVERSION ACTMTIES The Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Chairman of the Federal Nuclear and Radiation Safety Authority of Russia are utilizing the occasion of the Ninth Session of the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technolo-gical Cooperation held in Moscow September 21-23, 1997, to confirm their intent to ensure that appropriate emphasis is placed on nuclear safety issues associated with con-version of the reactor cores of Russia's plutonium production reactors to a design that does not proouce weapons-grade plutonium. They therefore express their mutual intent to support the U.S.-Russian Federation core conversion project: the umbrella Plutonium Production Reactor Agreement signed by the Vice President of the Unite<;! States and the Prime Minister of Russia, the core conversion Implementing Agreement signed between the Department of Defense and Minatom, and the Memorandum of Understanding on Liability signed between the Department of Energy and Minatom, and that safety issues relating to these activities be properly evaluated and addressed. In this light, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Nuclear and Radiation Safety Authority of Russia affirm that they will consult closely on regulatory approaches, including licensing requirements for the purpose of minimizing the risk associated with the reactors' operation. The two regulatory bodies will enter into implementing agreements as appropriate to accomplish these objectives.
The Chairmen of the regulatory bodies also reaffirmed the mutually :beneficial and constructive relationship that has been established and maintained betwee~ their two agencies over the past several years*.
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Shirley ~nn Jackson Chairman United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Moscow, September 23, 1997 Yuriy G. Vishnevsky Chairman Federal Nuclear and Radiation Safety Authority of Russia
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