Draft2:Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology
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The Department of Energy (DOE) of the United States of America and the State Development Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the "Parties"), on cooperation concerning Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology (PUNT). The agreement was signed at Beijing June 29, 1998 and entered into force June 29, 1998.
It builds on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and reaffirms the Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the People's Republic of China Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, signed on July 23, 1985. It also notes the Agreement of Intent on Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology Between the Department of Energy of the United States of America and the State Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, signed on October 29, 1997.
Conditions
- Cooperation between the Parties in activities supporting peaceful nuclear technologies shall be directed towards exchanging information on, and finding solutions to mutually agreed problems. This cooperation may include the exchange of experience and results of theoretical, experimental, and conceptual design programs, and mutually agreed research and development projects. Cooperation between the two Parties shall be on the basis of mutual benefit, equality, and reciprocity.
- Cooperation under this Agreement shall be carried out subject to the Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the People's Republic of China Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, signed July 23, 1985, and shall be in accordance with the laws and regulations of the respective countries.
- Any technology transferred or acquired pursuant to this Agreement shall be used only for peaceful purposes.
Areas of cooperation
The areas of cooperation covered by this Agreement may include the following:
- Current and advanced light-water nuclear power reactors technologies including:
- Reactor neutronics analysis and experimentation, including reactor and plant shielding and nuclear data;
- Reactor and plant safety, including safety standards, system safety analysis, severe accidents analysis, and accident management;
- Fuels and materials, including structural, component, absorber and circuit materials, long-life fuel and clad materials, reduced enrichment research reactor fuels and fuels which could tend to reduce or eliminate the production of material directly usable in nuclear explosive devices;
- Nuclear steam supply systems and their associated components and equipment, including design standard, component, equipment, and system design, thermal hydraulics and structural analysis;
- Engineered safety features and their associated components, including design standard, component and system design, structural analysis;
- Reactor building, including containment design, structural and architectural analysis;
- Instrumentation and control, application of computer science, including advanced digitization control and protection systems;
- Quality assurance, non-destructive inspection practices and in-service inspection technologies;
- Plant operation and management technology;
- Economic methodology and evaluation technology;
- Plant aging and life extension;
- Reactor deactivation and decommissioning, including fuel treatment and storage;
- Nuclear material transportation, including transportation of spent fuel, and shipping casks;
- Irradiation technology and advanced techniques in isotope production;
- Technology and programs to enhance nuclear safety, including associated nuclear and environmental impact assessments;
- Prevention and treatment of radiation occupational disease, and application of radiation technology and radioactive isotopes to medicine;
- Radiation protection/health physics;
- Environmental remediation, radioactive and chemical waste management, and spent fuel management;
- Export control of nuclear and nuclear related materials, equipment and technologies; nuclear materials protection, control and accounting; physical security of nuclear materials, equipment and technologies; and technology development for enhancement of international nuclear safeguards;
- Such other related areas of cooperation as may be added by written agreement of the Parties.
History
When was it founded, who was involved, etc.
Meetings
Since 2002, the United States and China have held periodic joint meetings on their cooperative activities under the U.S.-China PUNT Agreement.