[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 131 (Friday, July 9, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41460-41461]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-15624]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Proposed Subsequent 
Arrangement

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of proposed subsequent arrangement.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: This notice is being issued under the authority of Section 131 
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2160). The 
Department is providing notice of a proposed ``subsequent arrangement'' 
under Article 6 paragraph 2 of the Agreement

[[Page 41461]]

for Cooperation Between the Government of the United States of America 
and the Government of the Argentine Republic Concerning Peaceful Uses 
of Nuclear Energy.
    This subsequent arrangement concerns the recovery and blend down of 
8,330 grams of U.S.-obligated uranium, of which 7,480 g is in the 
isotope uranium-235 (U-235), for fabrication into low-enriched uranium 
(LEU) MTR type fuel elements. The LEU fuel elements will replace the 
high-enriched core in the Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica (CNEA) 
RA-6 and for the CNEA RA-3 Molybdenum-99 research and production 
reactor. 1,930 g of the total uranium amount (1,730 g U-235) is 
irradiated and will be dissolved in order to recover the resulting 
strontium-90 and cesium-137. The strontium-90 will be used in the 
production of generators for nuclear medicine and the cesium-137 will 
be used in the fabrication of sealed sources for medical and industrial 
purposes. Both the strontium-90 and cesium-137 will be controlled under 
the International Atomic Energy Agency's Code of Conduct on the Safety 
and Security of Radioactive Sources. The remaining amount of uranium is 
unirradiated and will be blended down in order to reduce its enrichment 
to less than 20 percent U-235. CNEA personnel will perform the blend 
down operations in specified hot cells and laboratory facilities under 
IAEA safeguards at CNEA's Ezeiza Atomic Center near Buenos Aires.
    In accordance with Section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, we have determined that this subsequent arrangement will not 
be 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.

    Dated: July 1, 2004.

    For the Department of Energy.
Kurt Siemon,
Acting Director, Office of Nonproliferation Policy.
[FR Doc. 04-15624 Filed 7-8-04; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P