Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Nuclear Energy Department: Registered Files (MN Series)

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Reference: FCO 151
Title: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Nuclear Energy Department: Registered Files (MN Series)
Description:

This series contain records covering the work of the Nuclear Energy Department within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It covers records documenting international nuclear energy policy - including, uranium enrichment and procurement, reprocessing, safeguards and nuclear exports.

There are also reports from major international incidents such as Chernobyl in 1986.
Date: 1982
Arrangement:

The files are arranged by prefix and sub-prefixes: Nuclear Energy General (MN), Australasia (MNA), Middle East (MND), Europe (MNE), Africa (MNF), America (MNM), Policy (MNP) and Asia (MNS).
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MN
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Nuclear Energy Department, 1982-1988
Physical description: 72 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2015 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accumulation dates: Files series ran from 1982 to 1988
Selection and destruction information: Selected under Records Collection Policy and Operational Selection Policy 13.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Nuclear Energy Department (within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) was created in 1982 when relevant areas separated from the Energy Department FCO. Leading on International Energy Policy (including, uranium enrichment and procurement, reprocessing, safeguards and nuclear exports) the department worked with organisations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency and The European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom). The department closed in 1988 when the work of NED was absorbed into the Science Energy and Nuclear Department.

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