Annual Report 1999-2000

Annex C AONM Overseas

Australian Obligated Nuclear Material Overseas

Table 14Locations and Quantities of AONM as at 31 December 1999

Category	Location	Quantity (tonnes)
Natural Uranium	Canada, Euratom, Japan, ROK, USA	16,590
Uranium in Enrichment Plants	Euratom, Japan, USA	24,518
Depleted Uranium	Euratom, Japan, USA	38,384
Low Enriched Uranium	Canada, Euratom, Japan, ROK, Switzerland, USA	6,672
Irradiated Plutonium	Canada, Euratom, Japan, ROK, Switzerland, USA	47.3
Separated Plutonium	Euratom, Japan	1.6
Thorium	USA	86
Total (tonnes)[26]		86,299

Table 15 Transfers of AONM during 1999

Process[27]	Quantity Uranium(tonnes)	Transfer Destination
Conversion	1,286	Canada
	2,578	Euratom
	2,248	USA
Total transfers between jurisdictions to conversion plants	6,112

 

Enrichment	830	USA
	4	Japan
Total transfers between jurisdictions to enrichment plants	834

 

Fuel fabrication	6	Euratom
	116	Japan
	22	USA
	23	ROK
Total transfers between jurisdictions to fuel fabrication plants	167

 

[26]. The end-use for all AONM is for the production of electric power in civil nuclear reactors and for related R&D. AONM cannot be used for any military purpose.

In accordance with the relevant agreements, Australias bilateral safeguards agreement partners report on a calendar year basis.

The actual quantities of AONM held in each country, and accounted for by that country pursuant to the relevant agreement with Australia, are considered by ASNOs counterparts to be confidential information. Totals above have been consolidated from annual reports to ASNO from its counterparts.

All quantities are given as tonnes weight of the element uranium, plutonium or thorium. In the case of uranium, the isotope weight of uranium-235 is, for natural uranium 0.711% of the element weight, for depleted uranium 0.20%, and for low enriched uranium in the range 1-5%.

Irradiated plutonium comprises plutonium contained in irradiated power reactor fuel, or plutonium reloaded in a power reactor following reprocessing, but does not include separated plutonium. Plutonium recovered from reprocessing is categorised as separated plutonium until it has been fabricated with uranium as MOX (mixed oxide) fuel and returned to a reactor for further power generation.

There may be minor discrepancies in the above figures due to rounding.

[27]. The above figures are for transfers made during 1999 and do not include transfers made in earlier years. The figures do not include transfers of AONM made within the fuel cycle of a State (or of Euratom), only between jurisdictions.

[28]. There were no transfers of AONM between jurisdictions to reprocessing plants in 1999.

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