Article 1 scope

1.1 The Participants intend to establish a framework for co­operation in the research and development of technologies for the treatment, packaging, and disposal of aluminium-based spent nuclear fuel. Under this arrangement, representatives of the Participants will meet periodically to exchange information and to consider where and when joint activities may be of mutual benefit. Subject areas of cooperation for the mutual benefit of the Participants may include but are not limited to:

1. Spent fuel transfer and handling facilities and associated equipment such as cask handling;

2. Spent fuel characterization including remote handling of spent fuel, nuclear instrumentation, critical it у analysis and shielding design,

3. Spent fuel packaging, canning and encapsulation;

4. Spent fuel dry storage facilities; and

5. Advanced technology development for managing spent nuclear fuel and stabilizing nuclear materials.

Article 2

Implementation

2.1 Representatives of the Participants to this Statement will meet within ninety (90) days of the date of signature of this Statement to establish a schedule for cooperative activities.

2.2 If the Participants agree to undertake a joint research and development project in which the Participants agree to share t work and/or costs, or which would result in the creation of intellectual property, the Participants will conclude an appropriate agreement. Each such agreement will include appropriate provisions for carrying out the joint project and will cover such matters as technical scope, intellectual property, management, costs, cost sharing and schedule.

Article 3 general provisions

1. The Participants understand that, except when otherwise agreed in writing, all costs resulting from cooperation under this Statement of Intent will be borne by the Participant that incurs them. It is also understood that the ability of each Participant to carry out its role under this Statement is subject to the availability' of appropriated funds.

2. There shall be no obligation for either USDoE or UKDTI to provide any information which is considered to be commercially valuable or sensitive. If either Participant decides to supply such' information,the Participant may subject such information to any reasonable restrictions it wishes to impose.

Article 4 commencement; termination

Cooperative activities will commence upon signature. Either Participant may terminate this arrangement by giving 6 months! written notice to the other Participant.

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Secretary USDoE Secretary of Energy

Department of Trade & Industry

EXHIBIT 84

PROTOCOL

Protocol on the trade delegation of the union of soviet socialist republics in the hashemite kingdom of jordan

In view of the fact that under the laws of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics the State enjoys a monopoly of foreign trade, and taking into consideration the provisions of article 9 of the Trade Agreement between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan of January 19 , the

Government of the USSR and the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have agreed as follows:

Article 1. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shall have a trade delegation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which shall have its headquarters at Amman.

Article 2. The functions of the trade delegation of the Union of Boviet Socialist Republics in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan shall be:

1. to promote the development of trade relations between the USSR and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan;

2. to represent the interests of the USSR in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in all matters relating to foreign trade;

3. to carry on trade between the USSR and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Article 3. The trade delegation shall form an integral part of the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The trade representative of the USSR in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and his two deputies shall enjoy all the privileges and immunities accorded to members of diplomatic missions.

The premises occupied by the trade delegation shall enjoy the same immunities as those accorded to the premises of diplomatic missions. The trade delegation shall be entitled to use a cipher.

The trade delegation shall not be subject to the regulations governing commercial registration.

Article 4. The trade delegation shall act on behalf of the Government of the USSR.

The Government of the USSR shall assume responsibility only for commercial contracts concluded or guaranteed in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on behalf of the trade delegation and signed by duly authorized persons. Any commercial contracts concluded without the trade delegation's guarantee by any State economic organizations of the USSR which under the laws of the USSR enjoy the status of independent bodies corporate shall be binding only on the organizations in question and execution in respect of contracts may be levied only on the property of those organizations. Responsibility for such contracts shall not be borne by either the Government of the USSR or its trade delegation in| the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Only the Organizations which have concluded the contracts shall bear responsibility for them.

Article 5. The establishment of the trade delegation shall not in any way affect the right of Jordanian commercial firms to maintain direct relations with Soviet foreign trade organizations with a view to concluding and executing commercial contracts.

Article 6. This Protocol shall enter into force on the date of its signature and shall remain in force until either of the Parties gives: notice of its intention to terminate it. Such notice shall be given three months in advance.

_{DONE at Amman, on 19 July 19 , in duplicate in the Russian} and Arabic languages, both texts being equally authentic.

For the Government For the Government

of the Union of Soviet of the Hashemite Kingdom

Socialist Republics: of Jordan:

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(signed) (signed)

EXHIBIT 85

ARBITRATION

AGREEMENT