TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 97-923 

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ATOMIC ENERGY 

 Memorandum of Understanding 

Between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

and the RUSSIAN FEDERATION 

Signed at Moscow September 23, 1997 

 

 and 

Agreement Amending the 

Memorandum of Understanding 

Signed at Vienna March 12, 2003 
 NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

 Pursuant to Public Law 89—497, approved July 8, 1966 

(80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)—

“. . .the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued 

under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent 

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international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be, 

therein contained, in all the courts of law and equity and of maritime 

jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices of the 

United States, and of the several States, without any further proof 

or authentication thereof.” 
 RUSSIAN FEDERATION 

 Atomic Energy 

 Memorandum of understanding signed at 

 Moscow September 23, 1997; 

 Entered into force September 23, 1997. 

 And agreement amending the 

 memorandum of understanding. 

 Signed at Vienna March 12, 2003; 

 Entered into force March 12, 2003. 


Amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding

Between

the Department of Energy of the United States of America and the

Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy Concerning

Cooperation Regarding Plutonium Production Reactors

of September 23, 1997

The Department of Energy of the United States of America

and the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy;

Noting that the Agreement between the Government of the

United States of America and the Government of the Russian

Federation of September 23, 1997, Concerning Cooperation

Regarding Plutonium Production Reactors (hereinafter referred to

as the "Agreement on Plutonium Production Reactors") was amended

on March 12, 2003, to add an option of creating fossil fuel

energy sources to replace three presently operating reactors

that produce plutonium;

Recognizing that the Agreement between the Department of

Defense of the United States of America and the Ministry of the

Russian Federation for Atomic Energy Concerning the Modification

of the Operating Seversk (Tomsk Region) and Zheleznogorsk

(Krasnoyarsk Region) Plutonium Production Reactors dated

September 23, 1997, under which Article II of the Agreement on

Plutonium Production Reactors was implemented, was replaced by

an Agreement between the Department of Energy of the United

States of America and the Ministry of the Russian Federation for

Atomic Energy Concerning the Cessation of Plutonium Production

at the Operating ADE-4 and ADE-5 Reactors in Seversk (Tomsk

Region) and the ADE-2 Reactor in Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk

Region);

Desiring to change the Memorandum of Understanding Between

the Department of Energy of the United States of America and the

Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy Concerning

Cooperation Regarding Plutonium Production Reactors dated

September 23, 1997 (hereinafter referred to as the "Memorandum

of Understanding"), to reflect the replacement described above;

Have agreed as follows:
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The fourth paragraph of the Memorandum of Understanding

shall be amended to replace the words "the Agreement between the

Department of Defense of the United States of America and the

Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy Concerning

the Modification of the Operating Seversk (Tomsk Region) and

Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Region) Plutonium Production

Reactors" with the words "the Agreement between the Department

of Energy of the United States of America and the Ministry of

the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy Concerning the

Cessation of Plutonium Production at the Operating ADE-4 and

ADE-5 Reactors in Seversk (Tomsk Region) and the ADE-2 Reactor

in Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Region) of March 12, 2003."

This Amendment shall enter into force upon signature.

Done at V a/(X- , in duplicate, this /0_,Vit' day

of March, 2003, in the English and Russian languages, both texts

being equally authentic.

FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

OF THE UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA:

FOR THE MINISTRY OF THE

RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR

ATOMIC ENERGY:
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