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Nuclear Energy:  Spent Fuel and Safety Management

Convention done at Vienna September 5, 1997; signed by the United States September 29, 1997; transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate September 13, 2000 (Treaty Doc. 106-48, 106th Congress, 2d Session); Reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations April 1, 2003 (Senate Executive Report No. 108-5, 108th Congress, 1st Session); Advice and consent to ratification by the Senate  April 2, 2003; Ratified by the President April 9, 2003; Instrument of Ratification deposited with the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna  April 15, 2003; entered into force July 14, 2003.

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future