Identifier
Created
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09BERLIN351
2009-03-25 15:30:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
GERMANY UNDERSTANDS CANCELLATION OF OAK RIDGE
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UNCLAS BERLIN 000351
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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY FR GM
SUBJECT: GERMANY UNDERSTANDS CANCELLATION OF OAK RIDGE
COOPERATION
REF: STATE 24903
(SBU) Joerg Polster, German MFA Desk Officer for
International Nuclear Energy expressed understanding that
that funding and personnel priorities have led the US cancel
its proposed U.S./French/German cooperative project to
develop low enriched uranium (LEU) for Germany's FRM II
reactor. Polster expressed his hope that the U.S. would not
find it necessary to shut completely Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. Polster stated that the laboratory responsible
for the FRM II reactor will continue this work on the
national level.
Koenig