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                   106TH CONGRESS              SEAEEXEC. REPT.
                      1st Session              SENATE                   106-1



                               CONVENTION ON NUCLEAR SAFETY


                                    MARCH 24, 1999.-Ordered to be printed


                         Mr. HELMS, from the Committee on Foreign Relations,
                                        submitted the following


                                             REPORT

                                      [To accompany Treaty Doc. 104-6]
                     The Committee on Foreign Relations to which was referred the
                   Convention on Nuclear Safety done at Vienna on September 20,
                   1994, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
                   six conditions and two understandings and recomends that the
                   Senate give its advice and consent to ratification thereof as set
                   forth in this report and the accompanying resolution of ratification.

                                              CONTENTS
                                                                                Page
                      I. Implications of the Nuclear Safety  Convention  ...........................................  1
                      II.  C om m ittee  A ction  .........................................................................................  6
                    III. Resolution  of  Ratification  ..............................................................................  10
                    IV .  A rticle-by-A rticle  A nalysis  ............................................................................  23
                         I. IMPLICATIONS OF THE NUCLEAR SAFETY CONVENTION
                   Background
                     Following the 1986 explosion of the nuclear power reactor at
                   Chernobyl, Ukraine, more than 50 nations undertook negotiation of
                   a multilateral treaty intended to increase the safety of civil nuclear
                   power plants. The treaty, the Convention on Nuclear Safety, was
                   signed by the Secretary of Energy on behalf of the United States
                   in September 1994. The treaty was submitted to the Senate in May
                   1995.
                     The Convention is viewed by the Executive Branch as an impor-
                   tant tool to encourage countries with civilian nuclear programs
                   that do not meet Western safety standards (most particularly,
                   those possessing Soviet-era nuclear power plants) to improve the
                   safety procedures at their installations. The Convention seeks to
                   accomplish this objective by urging countries to: (1) establish a leg-
                   islative and regulatory framework for nuclear safety; (2) establish
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