[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 26 (Thursday, February 7, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 5799]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-2954]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Proposed Subsequent 
arrangement

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Subsequent arrangement.

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SUMMARY: This notice has been issued under the authority of section 131 
of the AtomicEnergy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2160). The 
Department is providing notice of a proposed ``subsequent arrangement'' 
under the Agreement for Cooperation Between the United States and Japan 
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the Agreement for 
Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy between the United 
States and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).
    This subsequent arrangement concerns the retransfer of eight 
unirradiated mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies, containing 3,439,377 g 
of U.S.-origin uranium (9,879 g U-235) and 255,086 g plutonium, from 
the Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. to the Euratom Supply Agency. The 
material, which is currently located at the Takahama Nuclear Power 
Station Unit 4, Japan, is being returned to British Nuclear Fuels PLC, 
United Kingdom, because it cannot be utilized as originally intended. 
Upon its return to British Nuclear Fuels, the material will be stored 
in an approved facility pending recovery of the plutonium contained in 
the unirradiated fuel assemblies. The recovered plutonium will be 
returned to Japan in the form of fresh MOX fuel assemblies.
    In accordance with section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, we have determined that this subsequent arrangement is not 
inimical to the common defense and security.
    This subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than fifteen 
days after the date of publication of this notice, and after fifteen 
days of continuous session of the Congress, beginning the day after the 
date on which the reports required under section 131 of the Atomic 
Energy Act, as amended, are submitted to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate. The two time periods referred to above may run 
concurrently.

    Dated: February 4, 2002.

    For the Department of Energy.
Trisha Dedik,
Director, Office of Nonproliferation Policy.
[FR Doc. 02-2954 Filed 2-6-02; 8:45 am]
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