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Show Toll Enrichment Contracts Siqned by AEC With 23 The Atomic Energy Commission Com-mission has signed a total of 23 contracts with domestic domes-tic and foreign organizations under its new toll enrichment enrich-ment policy. The program, which began be-gan January 1, 19G9, is now projected to bring in total revenue of about $848 million over the next three decades, based on the contracts signed sign-ed thus far. The total includes includ-es nearly $40 million from overseas customers, providing provid-ing a favorable impact on the U. S. balance of payments. pay-ments. Toll enrichment is an AEC service to enrich privately owned uranium in the fissionable fis-sionable isotope P-235. The service is performed in the AEC's three gaseous diffusion diffus-ion plants. Under the program, pro-gram, the customer furnishes furnish-es uranium feed material and pays an enriching charge to AEC, receiving enriched en-riched uranium in return. The enriched material is used us-ed as fuel in nuclear power plants. During the first seven months of the program the Commission has signed, 16 contracts with overseas organizations or-ganizations in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan, Ja-pan, Sweden, and Switzerland. Switzer-land. Since the first of the year, the Commission also signed seven contracts with domestic domes-tic organizations totaling nearly $448 million. The contracts con-tracts are with Kerr-McGee Corporation ($9.4 million) Westinghouse Electric ($10.1 million); General Electric ($21 million); Philadelphia Electric ($187 million); B'ab-cock B'ab-cock and Wilcox ($5.3 million) mil-lion) and Commonwealth Edison, Ed-ison, two contracts ($110 million and $105 million). The enriched uranium resulting re-sulting from the services and destined for overseas application appli-cation is distributed abroai in accordance with intergovernmental intergov-ernmental agreements for cooperation with appropriate safeguards against use of the material for anything other than peaceful applications. |