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MR HOROWITZ SCI AE MR BREWSTER INR RSG MR MONK --------------------- 112964 R 211549 Z MAR 73 FM SECSTATE WASHDC TO AMEMBASSY TAIPEI INFO AMEMBASSY TOKYO E E R E T STATE 051747 E O 11652 GDS TAGS ENRG TW MCAP PINR SUBJECT ROC NUCLEAR RESEARCH TOKYO FOR HELFRICH 1 VICTOR CHENG SECRETARY- GENERAL OF ROC AEC CALLED UPON DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY SNEIDER MARCH 20 AT LATTER' S REQUEST CHENG WAS ACCOMPANIED BY ROC EMBASSY SCIENCE COUNSELOR PAN HSUEH- CHANG 2 CHENG REVIEWED DEVELOPMENT OF ROC NUCLEAR RESEARCH FACILITIES AT TSING HUA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY SHIH- MEN CHUNG- SHAN SCIENCE INSTITUTE AND UNION INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 3 HE OBSERVED THAT ROC HAS HAD CLOSE RELATIONS WITH US AEC HALF THE FUNDS NEEDED TO ACQUIRE TSING HUA POOL- TYPE RESEARCH REACTOR AND REACTOR ITSELF HAD COME SECRET SECRET PAGE 02 STATE 051747 FROM US WHICH HAS ALSO PROVIDED SOME EQUIPMENT FROM ARGONNE LABORATORY AND- AN ATOMSFOR- PEACE EXHIBIT 4 NOTING BROAD AND EXPANDING CHARACTER OF ROC NUCLEAR RESEARCH PROGRAM SNEIDER ASKED WHETHER IT MIGHT NOT BE USEFUL FOR A US STUDY GROUP TO VISIT TAIWAN TO CONSID- ER COURSE OF US ROC NUCLEAR COOPERATION OVER NEXT FIVE YEARS HE THOUGHT A NUMBER OF US OFFICIALS WOULD LIKE TO SEE ROC NUCLEAR FACILITIES US SNEIDER SAID WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH ROC ON MUTUALLY PROFITABLE ACTIVITIES IN NUCLEAR AREA INCLUDING SUPPLY OF NUCLEAR FUEL AND EQUIP- MENT CHENG WARMLY WELCOMED SUGGESTION 5 SNEIDER REPORTED APPRECIATION OF US GOVERNMENT FOR ROC DECISION NOT TO PROCEED WITH PURCHASE AND CON- STRUCTION OF NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING PILOT PLANT CHENG REPLIED THAT HE HAD ONLY LEARNED ABOUT PROPOSED PILOT PLANT WHEN US GOVERNMENT PEOPLE ASKED HIM ABOUT IT WHEN E WAS IN WASHINGTON LAST DECEMBER AFTER RETURN- ING TO TAIPEI HE LEARNED THAT A LABORATORY DIRECTOR INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING FOR ROC FULL NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE FROM FABRICATION OF FUEL ELEMENTS TO REPROCESSING OF SPENT ELEMENTS HAD PRICED A REPROCESSING PILOT PLANT IN EUROPE IN ORDER TO INCLUDE COST ESTIMATE IN BUDGET PROPOSAL 6 SNEIDER SAID THAT US HAD FOUND OUT ABOUT ROC INTER- EST IN REPROCESSING THROUGH EUROPEAN SOURCES US HAD BEEN GREATLY CONCERNED HE BELIEVED THAT CHENG APPRECIATED SENSITIVITY OF MATTER US SUPPORT FOR NUCLE- AR COOPERATION WITH ROC DEPENDS UPON ROC ADHERENCE TO PEACEFUL USES IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN THE FUTURE HE THOUGHT IF ROC WERE TO LET US KNOW WHEN IT WAS CONSIDER- ING BUYING CERTAIN TYPES OF EQUIPMENT IF IT HAD DONE SO WITH RESPECT TO REPROCESSING PILOT PLANT MUCH OF THE MYSTERY WOULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED 7 CHENG REPLIED THAT ROC DOES NOT HAVE ANY NUCLEAR SECRETS FROM ITS FRIENDS ROC HAS PLACED ALL ITS NUCLEAR RESEARCH REACTORS AND NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES IN AREA WHICH IS SAFEGUARDED BY IAEA BOTH DR BRUCE BILLINGS FORMERLY SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO SECRET SECRET PAGE 03 STATE 051747 THE AMBASSADOR FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND MR HELFRICH AEC REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN TOKYO HAD VISITED ROC NUCLEAR FACILITIES CHENG RECALLED BILLINGS HAD ONCE REMARKED THAT PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON HAD NOT BELIEVED HIM WHEN HE HAD REPORTED THAT EVERYTHING IN THESE FACILITIES WAS IN ORDER BILLINGS HAD SUGGESTED THAT IT WOULD BE WELL FOR THE ROC TO OPEN ITS FACILITIES TO MORE PEOPLE FROM US 8 IN A SUBSEQUENT MEETING AT AEC DR CHENG BRIEFLY DESCRIBED PROGRESS ON A LABORATORY- SCALE FUEL REPRO- CESSING FACILITY NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED AT NUCLEAR SCIENCE INSTITUTE NEXT DOOR TO CHUNG- SHAN BUILDING IS NOW COMPLETE AND STANDS EMPTY BUT EQUIPMENT SHOULD BE IN- STALLED BY END OF YEAR CAPACITY OF THIS FACILITY WILL BE MINUSCULE IT WILL PROCESS ONLY TWO FUEL ELEMENTS PER YEAR FROM THE TSING- HUA REACTOR AND WILL YIELD ONLY 300 GRAMS PU PER YEAR CHENG NOTED THAT HE HAD TOLD THE AEC ABOUT THIS FACILITY WHEN HE VISITED WASHINGTON LAST DECEMBER ROGERS SECRET Current Handling Restrictions n a current classification EE tT msgtext Page 2 ACDA- 9 NW# 28447 Docid 31308703 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu