DescriptionIAEA PROVIDES REACTOR AND URANIUM TO YUGOSLAVIA. A research and training reactor and the special nuclear fuel required for its operation will he supplied to Yugoslavia under agreements between the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United States and Yugoslavia signed in Vienna today. Yugoslavia will receive an 100 kW TRIGA Mark II research and training reactor, approximately 13000 grams of uranium enriched to approximately 20% in the isotope U-235 contained in fuel elements and approximately 5 grams of uranium enriched to more than 90% in the isotope U-235 as "indicator material". The reactor is to be operated by the Nuclear Institute "Josef Stefan" at Ljubljana. The transfer of the uranium from the United States to the Agency for delivery to Yugoslavia is taking place under the agreement for co-operation concluded between the Agency and the United States in May 1959. The Yugoslavian Government had requested the Agency's assistance in March 1961 and the Board of Governors approved the project on 7 April of the same year. The Agreement is signed by Mr. A.A. Wells, Director of the Division of International Activities of the USAEC (right), Mr. Slobodan Nakicenovic, Under-Secretary of State in the Yugoslav Nuclear Energy Commission (left), and Mr. Sterling Cole, Director General of the Agency (centre). IAEA/4 October 1961/No. 879. Please credit IAEA
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