236 



try to divulge proprietary information about performance of its 

 products. 260 



The second invitation resulted in two demonstration projects. One 

 was a 210-megawatt nuclear power plant for the Societe d'Energie 

 Nuclearire Franco-Beige des Ardennes (SENA) built near Givet, 

 France, close to the France-Belgian border. The second was a 237 

 megawatt nuclear power plant of a "West German firm, Kernkraft- 

 werk-RWE-Bayerwerk (KRB) at Gundremmingen, Bavaria. For 

 both projects, a U.S. firm was the designer and supplier for the nu- 

 clear reactor. 



The Joint Research Program 



The joint research program of the United States and Euratom was 

 initially planned for an expenditure of $200 million over 10 years. 

 At the end of the program in 1969, the AEC had spent about $37 mil- 

 lion and Euratom about the same. For the first 5 years, the U.S. 

 funds were authorized annually as a separate item in the AEC's au- 

 thorizations. For the second 5 years, congressional interest in the 

 joint program had diminished and AEC funding for it was merged 

 with other AEC requests for research and development. 



THE FIRST 5 -YEAR PLAN (1959-1964) 



The goal of the joint research program was to improve the per- 

 formance of U.S. types of nuclear power reactors. The joint program 

 began on December 23, 1958, when Euratom and the U.S. Mission to 

 Euratom announced the formation of a Joint Research and Develop- 

 ment Board and solicited proposals for research and development. The 

 function of the board was to choose among proposals. Criteria for se- 

 lection included the potential contribution of the proposed research to 

 the goals of the joint program, the technical competence of the research, 

 the anticipated costs, and the willingness of the proposer to participate 

 in the exchange of technical personnel. The chosen proposals were re- 

 ferred to Euratom or to the AEC for negotiation and administra- 

 tion. Proposals from European organizations went to Euratom, and 

 those from the U.S. nuclear industry and universities went to the 

 AEC. In this way, there was no combining of AEC and Euratom 

 funds and each organization was in control of the research funded 

 by it. 



The response to the invitation was enthusiastic. By the end of 1959 

 more than 340 proposals and letters of intent had been received. Of 

 some 250 definitive proposals, half were from European and half were 

 about equally divided between U.S. organizations and joint proposals 

 of U.S. and European concerns. But the selecting among these pro- 

 posals and the negotiating of contracts went slowly. Two years later, 

 in 1962, only 15 had been authorized for contracts in the United States 

 and 38 for Europe. 



One problem was funding. The Euratom Cooperation Act had au- 

 thorized an initial appropriation of $3 million and the AEC re- 

 ?uested an additional $14 million for fiscal year 1960. But the Joint 

 Committee cut the request to $5 million, which caused Commissioner 

 Floberg to ask the Committee for reconsideration and restoration. He 



480 U.S. ConfcreRR. Joint Committee on Atomic Enerpy, Hearings, AEC Authorizing 

 Legislation, Fiscal Tear 1960, op. clt., p. 657. 



