FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1950, VOLUME I


licenses for export to the U.S. The United Kingdom Government feels
strongly that undue interest on our part in small lots of Portuguese
ores will have a deleterious effect on the operations of the CDA in
Portugal, We are inclined to agree.
6. Switzerland
   See Export Controls (IV)
 7. Belgium and the Congo

 8. Netherlands
   The Department was informed through this office by a leading
 Dutch nuclear physicist of a prospective agreement between Norway
 and the Netherlands for cooperation in the field-of atomic energy
 research. Under the proposed plan, the Dutch would supply about
 10 tons of uranium oxide which had been purchased before the war
 and concealed during the German occupation. These ores would be
 processed in Norway and the resulting refined uranium used to charge
 the Kjeller heavy water reactor now under construction near Oslo.
 The project would be supervised by a mixed commission of scientists
 from the two countries. This new alignment apparently side-tracks a
 Norwegian-Swedish alignment which has been impending for some
 time although the Netherlands spokesman indicated that scientists
 of other countries might eventually be invited to participate in the
 project.
 9. France
   See Export Controls (IV)
10. Italy
   The Embassy at Rome has been advised that the AEC's interest in
certain uranium deposits in Northern Italy is not strong enough to
justify special investigation. However, if a field party is sent to do
work in other parts of Europe, it may be desirable to have it also
survey the Italian occurrences which are comparatively low grade
but still of some interest.
11. Germany
  a. Low grade uranium deposits in Bavaria have been called to the
attention of HICOG by certain German engineers. AEC is interested
in securing further information and representative samples, and
HICOG has been requested to report whether a qualified person is
available to make the required investigations.
  b. See Export Controls (IV)
12. USSR
  See Int;elligence (VI)


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