[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 123 (Wednesday, June 26, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30101-30102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13592]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Proposed Subsequent Arrangement
AGENCY: National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Proposed subsequent arrangement.
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SUMMARY: This document is being issued under the authority of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The Department is providing
notice of a proposed subsequent arrangement under the Agreement for
Cooperation Between the Government of the United States of America and
the Government of Japan Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy.
DATES: This subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than July
11, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Sean Oehlbert, Office of
Nonproliferation and Arms Control, National Nuclear Security
Administration, Department of Energy. Telephone: 202-586-3806 or email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposed subsequent arrangement
concerns a revision in the decommissioning plan described in an earlier
subsequent arrangement--published in the Federal Register May 25, 2011
(76 FR 30326)--for the alteration in form of 28.276 kg (24.541 ekg) of
U.S.-origin high enriched uranium (HEU) (26.342 kg U-235) and 0.0048 g
of plutonium contained in three irradiated HEU driver fuels. Under
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the 2011 subsequent arrangement, the United States approved the cutting
and de-cladding of the HEU for conversion and downblending to
approximately 18% at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) Plutonium
Fuel Fabrication Facility, and the temporary storage of the downblended
HEU at the JAEA Tokai Plutonium Fuel Production Facility. The
downblended HEU was planned for use as fuel for the JAEA experimental
fast reactor JOYO. Under the revised plan, the HEU will be cut into
segments and de-cladded, then packaged for return to the United States.
Pursuant to the authority in section 131a. of the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954, as delegated, I have determined that this proposed subsequent
arrangement will not be inimical to the common defense and security of
the United States of America.
Dated: June 17, 2019.
For the Department of Energy.
Brent K. Park,
Deputy Administrator, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.
[FR Doc. 2019-13592 Filed 6-25-19; 8:45 am]
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