oforo MODIFICATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON
ENRICHMENT OF FOREIGN URANIUM FOR
DOMESTIC USE

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIG ENERGY
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION
ON

PROPOSAL FOR GRADUAL RELAXATION AND ULTIMATE

REMOVAL OF PRESENT RESTRICTIONS ON ENRICHMENT

OF FOREIGN URANIUM INTENDED FOR USE IN DOMESTIC
POWER REACTORS

SEPTEMBER 17 AND 18, 1974

Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

PROPOSE) MODIFICATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON
ENRICHMENT OF FOREIGN URANIUM FOR
DOMESTIC USE

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION
ON

PROPOSAL FOR GRADUAL RELAXATION AND ULTIMATE

REMOVAL OF PRESENT RESTRICTIONS ON ENRICHMENT

OF FOREIGN URANIUM INTENDED FOR USE IN DOMESTIC
POWER REACTORS

SEPTEMBER 17 AND 18, 1974

Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY

MELVIN PRICE, Illinois, Chairman
JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island, Vice Chairman

CHET HOLIFIELD, California HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington
JOHN YOUNG, Texas STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri
TENO RON CALIO, Wyoming ALAN BIBLE, Nevada
MIKE McCORMACK, Washington JOSEPH M. MONTOYA, New Mexico
CRAIG. HOSMER, California GEORGE D. AIKEN, Vermont
JOHN B. ANDERSON, Illinois WALLACE F. BENNETT, Utah
ORVAL HANSEN, Idaho PETER. H. DOMINICK, Colorado
MANUEL LIJJAN, JR., New Mexico HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., Tennessee

EDWARD J. BAUSER, Ezecutive Director

GEorge F. MURPHY, Jr., Deputy Director
JAMEs B. GRAHAM, Assistant Director
NorMAN P. KLUG, Technical Consultant
Col. SEYMOUR SPIwILLER, USAF (Ret.), Technica: Consultant
ALBION W. KNIGHT, Jr., Professional Staff Member
RANDALL C. STEPHENs, Assistant Staff Counsel
WILLIAM J. MINSCH, Jr., Special Counset
Christoph ER C. O’MALLEY. Printing Editor

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OPENING STATEMENT
Hosmer, Hon. Craig, Representative, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy--

ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WITNESSES

Anders, William A., Commissioner; accompanied by Frank P. Baranowski,
Director, Division of Production and Materials Management; George
F. Quinn, Assistant General Manager for Production and Management
of Nuclear Materials; Roger A. LeGassie, Bruce A. Mercer, Robert
D. Nininger, Atomic Energy Commission----------------------------
Baranowski, Frank P., Director of the Division of Production and Materials
Management, AEC----------------------------------------------
Quinn, George F., Assistant General Manager for Production and Manage-
ment of Nuclear Materials-----------------------------------------

WITNESSES AND STATEMENTS

HEARING of SEPTEMBER 17, 1974

Cherry, B. H., chairman, Edison Electric Institute, nuclear fuels committee, accompanied by John J. Kearney, vice president, Edison Electric Institute. ------`-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stephenson, J. C., chairman of the uranium advisory council of the American Mining Congress--------------------------------------------White, George, president, Nuclear Exchange Corp---------------------

HEARING OF SEPTEMBER 18, 1974

Cope, Dr. David, Energy Research and Development Office, Federal
Energy Administration, accompanied by Walter Hibbard, Director of
Energy Research and Development, FEA, and Dr. Vincent McKelvey,
Director of the U.S. Geological Survey----------------------------
Gilleland, Jack E., Assistant to the Manager of Power, Tennessee Valley
Authority; accompanied by Jacob D. Vreeland, Assistant General
Counsel, TVA, and John F. Hogerton, executive vice president, the
S.M. Stoller Corp., consultant------------------------------------
Hogerton, John F., executive vice president, the S.M. Stoller Corp.,
consultant------------------------------------------------------
Johnson, Douglas M., president, United Nuclear Corp----------------
Muessig, Siegfried, manager of minerals exploration of the Getty Oil Co--
Rijakes, George P., manager of fuel and budgets for the Commonwealth
Edison Co., Chicago, Ill------------------------------------------