ML20133B256
| ML20133B256 | |
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| Issue date: | 10/17/1995 |
| From: | Sherr T NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Hauber R NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP) |
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| FOIA-96-459 NUDOCS 9701030059 | |
| Download: ML20133B256 (1) | |
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%'...,..)f October 17, 1995 X5M oW g7g MEMORANDUM T0: Ronald Hauber, Director Division of Non-Proliferation, Exports and Multilateral Relations Office of International Programs FROM: Theodore S. Sherr, Chief C.
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Regulatory and International Safeguards Branch Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
SUBJECT:
UPDATE TO AMENDMENT 2, XSNM-1662, EXP0RT OF LOW ENRICHED URANIUM TO TAIWAN FOR INITIAL CORE LOAD AND FOUR RELOADS (LUNGMEN 1 & 2)
We have reviewed the subject updated information to amendment number 2 to this license and prepared the following international safeguards and foreign physical protection information for your consideration.
Although Taiwan is not a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty nor any longer recognized as a Member State by the IAEA, subsidiary arrangements have been negotiated and are in force for all of Taiwan's operating nuclear facilities. j As stated in the license amendment, a firm order for the LUNGMEN reactors has not been awarded by the Taiwan Power Company. Since construction has not .
started on these reactors,no subsidiary arrangements have been completed for !
these reactors. Taiwan has historically negotiated subsidiary arrangements in a timely manner, and we expect that negotiations for these new reactors will occur in a like manner. IAEA safeguards are applied to nuclear materials and l facilities in Taiwan pursuant to two agreements, INFCIRC/133 and 158.
We note that the IAEA Annual Report covering 1994 states that, with the exception of the DPRK situation, "...the Secretariat did not find any indication of the diversion of a significant amount of nuclear material ...
Nor did the Secretariat find any evidence of misuse of safeguarded facilities, equipment or non-nuclear material. On the basis of all the information available to the Agency, it is considered reasonable to conclude that the nuclear material and other items which had been placed under Agency safeguards remained in peaceful nuclear activities or were otherwise adequately accounted for."
With regard to physical protection, a physical protection evaluation was performed during a visit to Taiwan in April 1995. The preliminary conclusion of that review was that Taiwan's physical protection program was consistent with the recommendations of the current version of IAEA INFCIRC/225, i.e., 1 INFCIRC/225/Rev.3. I l
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