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development); and interchange appears legal under the Amendment to Section
10 of the Act.
There has been an exact precedent for such interchange, in
the case of-round fuel elements.
Mr. LeBaron has opposed the interchange.
Mr. Dean hoped that the GAC would look into the matter and be able to say
how important it is,
The discussion of cooperation with other nations continued until the
end of this Session,
With regard to British security practices, Mr, Dean said that they now
have full background investigations on new applicants, and have agreed to
make such investigations on all people already in the program.
However,
in the present atmosphere, exchanges with the United Kingdom, and possibly
even with Canada, would be very difficult,
The Commission would like to
propose broad interchange with the Canadians on reactor development and
power reactors,
Through lack of interchange we are losing much good will
and cooperation from the Canadians,
Dr, Wigner observed that there is a similar problem with the South
American countries,
We might gein a great deal by making "swimming pools"
or other research reactors available to them.
Mr. Dean said that there is
a political problem with the Belgians, who are turning to other countries,
e.g. to Norway for heavy weter and to the French for know-how,
The following were some of the other thoughts expressed,
It will be
devastating when the Kremlin offers to give a little uranium-235 to other
countries,
Our present policy is forcing the development of atanic energy
technologies in other countries.
e.g. for ore,
It puts us in a poor bargaining position,
Section 10 of the Act contains the kasic prohibition against
releasing data on reactors capable of producing power or plutonium; this
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