matters relating to the development and implementation of improved safeguards procedures.

--At the close of 1965 some 30 shipments of spent reactor fuel from abroad had been sent to the Commission's Savannah River Plant and the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant.

--By mid-1965 the Commission had distributed abroad through sale, lease and deferred payment sales, special nuclear and other materials with an approximate value of $141. 7 million.

1966

--IAEA safeguards were extended to cover processing plants, a move that was proposed and strongly supported by the United States.

--The United States offered at the eighteen-nation Disarmament Conference in Geneva, in cooperation with Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., to make the NFS plant for chemical processing of irradiated fuel available to the IAEA to develop and test safeguards techniques and to gain experience and training for Agency safeguards inspectors.

--The Commission issued criteria for the supply of uranium enrichment services to foreign customers. These criteria included: assurance of longterm availability at stable prices of enriched uranium; and non-discriminatory terms and conditions of supply to be as nearly as possible identical between foreign and domestic customers.

--During 1966 there were 21 shipments of spent fuel to the United States for other nations.

--As of mid-1966 the AEC had distributed abroad through sale, lease

and deferred payment sales, special nuclear and other materials worth about

$214.4 million.

1967

--The 11th General Conference of the IAEA considered the United States' suggestion for the extension of the IAEA safeguards system to fuel fabri

cation plants.

--The Commission noted the heightened interest in peaceful nuclear energy by Latin American countries.

--President Johnson announced that when safeguards are applied under a nonproliferation treaty for nuclear weapons "... the United States will permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to apply its safeguards to all nuclear activities in the United States--excluding only those with direct national security significance..." (December 2.)

--Two liaison meetings with EURATOM officials were held on safeguards procedures relating to fuel fabrication, especially plants fabricating fuel elements from plutonium and highly enriched uranium.

--The Commission signed its first contract to provide uranium toll enrichment services for a reactor in a foreign country. (Sweden.)

--Thirty-one shipments of spent research reactor fuel were made to the United States for processing.

--As of mid-1967, the AEC had distributed aborad through sale, lease, and deferred payment sales, special nuclear and other materials worth about $266.4 million.

1968

--The Non Proliferation Treaty was opened for signature, 80 nations signed it.

--IAEA safeguards system was extended to cover fuel conversion and fabrication plants.

--The Commission adopted a new policy to deliver enriched uranium as long as five years in advance of the time of actual need.

--As of mid-1968, the Commission had distributed abroad through sale and lease, and deferred payment sales, special nuclear and other materials worth about $313. 3 million.

--The Commission negotiated the sale of 850 tons of heavy water, worth $42 million for use in Canada, Germany, and Sweden.

--There were 13 shipments of highly enriched research fuel to the United States for reprocessing.

1969

--Toll enrichment became the preferred method of supplying enriched uranium for reactors abroad.

--Approximately 40 foreign exchange arrangements for information on nuclear science and technology continued.

--A new series of workshops for foreign nationals was held at the Argonne National Laboratory.

--As of mid-1969, the Commission had distributed abroad through sale, lease and deferred payment sales, special nuclear material and other

materials worth about $360.9 million. The sale of 667 tons of heavy water valued at $35.4 million was also negotiated.

--12 shipments of spent fuel were received from foreign countries for

reprocessing.

--The United States and the Soviet Union signed their ratified copies of the NPT. (November 24.)

--The United States and the Soviet Union held meetings to discuss their respective peaceful nuclear explosion programs.

1970

--The United States and the Soviet Union deposited their instruments of ratification of the NPT. (March 15.)

--A second set of bilateral meetings was held between representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union to discuss their peaceful nuclear

nuclear explosions programs.

--Foreign orders were placed with United States suppliers for nine nuclear powerplants in seven countries.

--By the end of 1970, the Export-Import Bank had authorized 18 projects involving American-supplied materials and equipment in nuclear plants aborad totaling approximately $600 million.

--Export shipments to cooperating countries totaled approximately 3,521 kilograms of U-235 under toll enrichment agreements, 2, 597 of U-235 under sale and lease agreements, and 45 kilograms of Pu.

--As of mid-1970 the Commission had distributed abroad through sale, lease, and deferred payment sales, special nuclear material and other materials worth about $437.6 million. The Commission negotiated the sale to Canada of 500 tons of heavy water valued at $29.4 million.

--Ten shipments of spent fuel were received from Canada and Japan for reprocessing in the United States.

1971

--President Nixon announced in his foreign policy report to Congress on Feburary 25, 1971, that the Administration had consulted with the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy concerning ways in which the United States might assist its allies to construct multinational uranium enrichment facilities. The Commission informed several nations that it was prepared to undertake exploratory discussions on the possibility of making gaseous diffusion technology available outside the U.S. Preliminary discussions were

held in November.

--Seventeen uranium enrichment contracts were executed under agreements for cooperation.

--Export shipments to agreement nations totaled approximately 19, 707 kilograms of U-235 under toll enrichment agreements and 1,264 kilograms of U-235 under sale and lease agreements.

--As of mid-1971, the Commission had distributed abroad through sale, lease, and deferred payment sales, special nuclear material and other materials worth about $572.3 million, resulting in revenues of $491.9 million.