In 1957 Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, created organization and entered into a treaty that established the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). This treaty, which controls all civil nuclear activities in the European Union, is designed:
to provide a common market in nuclear materials,
to ensure a supply of nuclear fuels and to guarantee that nuclear materials are not diverted from their intended purpose,
to establish contacts with other countries to promote progress in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy,
to exercise the right of ownership conferred upon it with respect to special fissile materials.
The members pledged themselves to the common development of Europe’s nuclear energy resources by coordinating their nuclear research and development programs and by permitting the free movement of nuclear raw materials, equipment, investment capital, and specialists within the community.…
