The U.S.-Republic ofNuclear Cooperation Agreement • January 17th, 2012
Contract Type FiledJanuary 17th, 2012The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have enjoyed a close relationship on the research, development, and deployment of civil nuclear energy since the dawn of the nuclear era. In 1956, both nations signed a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement on the Non-Military Uses of Nuclear Energy (1956 Agreement). Two years later, through President Dwight Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Program,1 General Atomics2 agreed to work with Seoul to construct the TRIGA3 Mark II research reactor using U.S.-origin fuel, which was brought online in 1962.