NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION POLICY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91M00696R000300120011-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 24, 1977
• Content Type: REGULATION

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Presidential Directive/NSC- 8
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TO: The Vice President
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Director, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency
The Administrator, Energy Research
and Development Administration
ALSO: The Director of Central Intelligence
The Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Assistant to the President for
Energy Policy
SUBJECT: Nuclear Non- Proliferation Policy
It shall be a principal U. S. security objective to prevent the spread
of nuclear explosive -- or near explosive -- capabilities to countries
which do not now possess them. To this end U. S. non-proliferation
.policy shall be directed at preventing the development and use of
sensitive nuclear power technologies which involve direct access to
plutonium, highly enriched uranium, or other weapons useable material
in non-nuclear weapons states, and at minimizing the global accumulation
1. Specifically, the U. S. will seek a pause among all nations in sensitive
nuclear developments in order to initiate and actively participate in,
an intensive international nuclear fuel cycle re-evaluation program
(IFCEP) whose technical aspects shall concern the development and
promotion of alternative, nori-sensitive, nuclear fuel cycles. This
program will include both nuclear supplier and recipient nations.
2. For its part the United States Government will:
- Indefinitely defer the commercial reprocessing and recycle of
plutonium in the U. S.
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Restructure the U. S. breeder reactor program so as to
emphasize alternative designs to the plutonium breeder,
and to meet a later date for possible commercialization.
As a first step the need for the current prototype reactor,
the Clinch River project, will be reassessed.
Redirect the funding of U. S. nuclear research and development
programs so as to concentrate on the development of alternative.
nuclear fuel cycles which do not involve access to weapons
useable materials.
-- Provide incentives, in the area of nuclear fuel assurances and
spent fuel storage, to encourage the participation of other nations
in the International Fuel Cycle Evaluation Program. Detailed
studies of these programs shall be carried out by the NSC Ad Hoc
Group established herein, and submitted to me as directed in
the accompanying memorandum.
-- Initiate a program of assistance to other nations in the development
of non nuclear means of meeting energy needs.
-- Increase production capacity for nuclear fuels.
3. It shall also be U. S. policy to strengthen the existing non-proliferation
regime: by encouraging the widest possible adherence to the Non-
Proliferation Treaty, and to comprehensive international safeguards;
by strengthening and improving the IAEA; and by providing stronger
sanctions against the violation of nuclear agreements. Therefore the
U. S. will announce its intention to terminate nuclear cooperation
with any non-nuclear weapons state that hereafter
-- detonates or demonstrably acquires a nuclear explosive
device; or
-- terminates or materially violates international safeguards or
any guarantees it has given to the United States.
4. In order to implement these policies to perform the necessary studies,
and to coordinate departmental activities in the non-proliferation field,
I hereby establish an NSC Ad Hoc Group, to be chaired by the Department
of State, and to include the Presidential Assistant for Energy. This
group shall establish task forces, chaired by the appropriate agencies,
to perform, among others, the tasks detailed in the accompanying
memorandum.
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The NSC Ad Hoc Group, established in PD.- 8 , is directed to:
prepare and submit by March 31 a comprehensive list of
all activities, facilities and technologies related to nuclear
power, which involve direct access to weapons useable
materials;
prepare and submit by April 1, a review of the Fiscal 1978
budget with appropriate recommendations to implement the
policies set forth in the accompanying Presidential Directive;
prepare and submit by April 5, proposed nuclear export
policies, including: a summary of current applications for
export of Highly Enriched Uranium and plutonium; criteria
which should be applied to nuclear exports at the licensing
stage; a list of criteria and conditions which should be required
for new and amended agreements for cooperation, and necessary
revisions in existing agreements; explicit options covering
U. S. policies on consent to retransfer, reprocess, reexport
and reuse U. S. -supplied fuels, Highly Enriched Uranium,
plutonium, and materials irradiated in U. S. -supplied facilities;
and legislative proposals to implement these recommendations;
prepare and submit by May 1, a detailed study of measures
the U. S. might take so as to be able to offer nuclear fuel
assurances to nations participating in the International Fuel
Cycle Evaluation Program, including: rigorous revised estimates
of future nuclear energy demand; measures to expand U. S.
enrichment capacity; analysis and justification of U. S. stockpile
programs; recommendations for appropriate terms and conditions
for future toll enrichment contracts; assessments of the benefits
of declaring an open season on enrichment contracts; exploration
of international undertakings and agreements'; and other short and
long-term options for providing nuclear fuel assurances and
collaborating with other suppliers;
prepare and submit by May 1, a thorough study of measures
the U. S. might take concerning nuclear fuel storage including:
measures to expand U. S. spent fuel storage and transportation
capacity; proposals for meeting the storage needs of those
participating in the International. Fuel Cycle Evaluation Program;
analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of international spent
fuel. storage (but not plutonium storage which the U. S. shall discourage);
and measures to accelerate the development, demonstration and
li.cen'sing of long-term spent fuel storage, both, retrievable and terminal.
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prepare and submit by May 1, a program for promoting the
development of non-nuclear energy alternatives and for
assisting other nations with non-nuclear means to meet
their energy needs.
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