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Signed in Washington, DC on: August 27, 

2018. 

Poli A. Marmolejos, 

Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration 

Secretarial Determination of a National 

Security Purpose for the Sale or 

Transfer of Enriched Uranium 

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security 

Administration, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On August 21, 2018, the 

Secretary of Energy issued a 

determination (‘‘Secretarial 

Determination’’) covering the transfer of 

low enriched uranium in support of the 

tritium production mission. The 

Secretarial Determination establishes 

the national security purpose of these 

transfers, therefore the transfers will be 

conducted under the USEC Privatization 

Act of 1996. 

DATES: The Secretary of Energy signed 

the determination on August 21, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Audrey Beldio, NNSA Domestic 

Uranium Enrichment Program Manager, 

U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585, telephone (202) 586–1963, or 

email audrey.beldio@nnsa.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Currently, 

the United States does not possess a 

fully domestic uranium enrichment 

capability. The U.S. uranium 

enrichment market consists of foreign 

enrichment technologies that cannot be 

used to meet national security 

requirements for enriched uranium. 

Acknowledging that it will take time 

to develop enrichment technologies and 

allow for thorough analysis to inform an 

acquisition decision for producing 

unobligated LEU, NNSA’s Domestic 

Uranium Enrichment strategy includes 

NNSA Defense Programs down-blending 

approximately 20 metric tons of HEU to 

LEU for use as fuel in tritium 

production reactors. The uranium will 

be transferred to the NNSA federal 

partner, the Tennessee Valley Authority 

(TVA) only for use as fuel in a reactor 

producing tritium and not for resale or 

retransfer. TVA will pay for the value of 

uranium to be received. Use of this 

material is compliant with longstanding U.S. policy and international 

commitments that require LEU used for 

defense purposes to be free of peaceful 

use restrictions (‘‘unobligated’’). TVA is 

responsible for preserving the 

unobligated LEU to be used as fuel in 

tritium production reactors. 

The Department’s transfers of 

uranium are conducted in accordance 

with its authority under the Atomic 

Energy Act of 1954, and consistent with 

other applicable law. These uranium 

transfers will be conducted under 

Section 3112(e)(2) of the USEC 

Privatization Act of 1996, which 

provides for transfers of enriched 

uranium to any person for national 

security purposes, as determined by the 

Secretary. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on September 

5, 2018. 

Philip T. Calbos, 

Acting Deputy Administrator for Defense 

Programs, National Nuclear Security 

Administration. 

Appendix 

Department of Energy 

Set forth below is the full text of the 

Secretarial Determination: 

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