- er .. - UNCLASSIFIED= == INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES friendly nations. Highly enriched fuel may be made available for research reactors using - up to 8 kilograms of uranium 235 per core loading, 28 well as for materials testing reactors, provided that the requesting nation has jn effect an appropriate agreement for cooperation with the United States containing comprehensive safeguards and controls against diversion of nuclear material to military uses. The Commission will consider requests for amendments to present agreements that do not contain the necessary provisions. An amendmentto the Danish research agreement permitting transfer of uranium 235 at 90 percent enrichment for use in Denmark’s DR-2 research reactor was being negotiated at the end, of June and was expected to be the first action under the new policy. Activities Pertaining to Agreements for Cooperation Italy. The comprehensive agreement for cooperation with Italy provides for the transfer to Italy of 7,000 Kilograma of uranium 235 over a 20-year period for use in research and power reactors. A question has arisen as to the relationship of this agreement to Euratom since the exchange of notes bringing the agreementinto effect occurred subsequent to the date upon which the Euratom treaty entered Into force. This question was under study by the Departmentof State and appropriate authorities of the Itallan Government and Euratom. Japan. A comprehensive agreement for cooperation with Japan was signed on June 16 and will supersede the 1955 research agreement when it has been ratified by the Japanese Diet. The new agreement provides for the transfer to Japan of 2,700 kilograms of uranium 235 over a 10-year period for use as fuel in research and power reactors. Among the projects planned by the Japanese are a 15,000- to 20,000-electrical-kilowatt experimental power reactor scheduled for operation in 1961, and a full-scale 150,000-electrical-kKilowatt power reactor scheduled for operation in 1964. Both of these reactors are tentatively planned as enriched- | uranium, water-cooled types. Research reactor grants. Formal letters of commitment for $350,000 research reactor grants were presented to seven countries during the April-June quarter, Country nt Reactor Project Austria 5,000-kilowatt, tank-type research reactor to be constructed by AMF Atomics for the Austrian Study Company for Atomic Energy at a site in the vicinity of Vienna Belgium 25,000-kilowatt, high-flux testing reactor being built at the Mol nuclear research center by Belgian industry with the assistance of the Nuclear Development Corporation of America China 1,000-kilowatt, pool-type research reactor to be constructed by the General Electric Company at the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Germzny 1,000-kilowatt, pool-type research reactor at the Technical University of Munich, built by AMF Atomics and in operation since the fall of 1957 Israel 1,000-kilowatt, pool-type research reactor to be built by AMF Atomics at Nebi-Rubin near Rehovoth Norwey Zero-power, pool-type research reactor to be built largely by Norwegian industry at Kjeller Sveden 30,000-kilowatt, research and materials testing reactor being built by ACF Industries at Studsvik nuclear research center UNCLASSIFIED DOE ARCHIVES eth EOMEy 5