Communication Received from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning its Policies Regarding the Management of Plutonium

The Director General has received a note verbale, dated 20 July 2001, from the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the IAEA in which the Government of the United Kingdom in keeping with its commitment under the Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium (contained in INFCIRC/549 of 16 March 1998 and hereinafter referred to as the 'Guidelines'), and in accordance with Annexes B and C of the Guidelines, has made available annual figures for its national holdings of civil unirradiated plutonium and the estimated amounts of plutonium contained in spent civil reactor fuel as of 31 December 2000. The Government of the United Kingdom has also made available a statement of its national holdings of civil high enriched uranium (HEU), and civil depleted, natural and low-enriched uranium (DNLEU) in the civil nuclear fuel cycle, as at 31 December 2000.