Yugoslavia Nuclear Imports
Year/Date	Exporter	Item(s)	Remarks
1951 [1]	Norway	1.5 MeV Cockocroft-Walton particle accelerator	Accelerator begins operating in 1952 at Vinca Institute of Nuclera Science located near Belgrade.
1952 [2]	Switzerland	30 MeV betatron	Used for studying nuclear processes, photoeffects, for material testing, and for use in medicine at Josef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
1953 [3]	Norway	highly enriched uranium
1957 [4]	USSR	zero power heavy water--natural uranium critical assembly RB reactor	Located at Vinca.
1959 [5]	USSR	6.5 MW heavy water moderated and cooled research reactor RA	As part of a nuclear cooperation agreement with the USSR. Used at Vinca Institute. The reactor operates initially with 2% enriched metal uranium fuel elements.
1960 [6]	United States	250 kW Triga Mark-II light water reactor	Used at Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. Became operational in 1966.
1962 [7]	Norway	engineering blueprints for a reprocessing plant	To be modeled on the Norwegian plant at the Institute for Energy and Nuclear Technology at Kjeller, but larger. Norwegian firm NORATOM never builds the plant.
1966 [8]	Norway	plutonium reprocessing facility	Built by Yugoslavia, with Norway's help; laboratory-scale; contains four hot cells.
1966 [9]	Norway	high-grade plutonium	Gram-quantities; presumably for the reprocessing facility at Vinca.
1974 [10]	United States	632 MW nuclear power plant, Nuklearna Elektrana Krsko (NEK)	U.S. firm Westinghouse builds the pressurized light-water reactor; electricity production begins in 1982. The reactor is co-owned by Croatia and Slovenia.
after 1976 [11]	USSR	40 kg fresh highly enriched uranium fuel, in metal form	Supplied for the RA research reactor. Concern over its safety appeared after 1995 due to political unrest in the country.
1988 [12]	IAEA	cyclotron	To be located at Vinca, present status is unknown.

[1] Slobodan Nakicenovic, Nuclear Energy in Yugoslavia, (Beograd: Export Press, 1961), p. 26.
 [2]  Slobodan Nakicenovic, Nuclear Energy in Yugoslavia, (Beograd: Export Press, 1961), p. 35-36.
[3] William C. Potter, Miljanic, Djuro and Ivo Slaus, "Tito's Nuclear Legacy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 56, No. 2, March/April 2000, <http://www.bullatomsci.org>.
[4]  "RB Reactor," Center for Nuclear Technologies and research NTI web page, Vinca Institute for Nuclear Sciences, Accessed on December 23, 2003, <http://www.vin.bg.ac.yu>.
 [5] "RA Reactor," Center for Nuclear Technologies and research NTI web page, Vinca Institute for Nuclear Sciences, Accessed on December 23, 2003, <http://www.vin.bg.ac.yu>
[6]  Slobodan Nakicenovic, Nuclear Energy in Yugoslavia, (Beograd: Export Press, 1961), p. 35. James P. Nichol and Gordon L. McDaniel, "Yugoslavia," in Nuclear Power in Developing Countries, James Everett Katz and Onkar S. Marwah (eds.), (Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1982), p. 349.
[7]  William C. Potter, Miljanic, Djuro and Ivo Slaus, "Tito's Nuclear Legacy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 56, No. 2, March/April 2000, <http://www.bullatomsci.org>.
[8]  William C. Potter, Miljanic, Djuro and Ivo Slaus, "Tito's Nuclear Legacy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 56, No. 2, March/April 2000, <http://www.bullatomsci.org>; James P. Nichol and Gordon L. McDaniel, "Yugoslavia," in Nuclear Power in Developing Countries, James Everett Katz and Onkar S. Marwah (eds.), (Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1982), p. 356.
[9]  William C. Potter, Miljanic, Djuro and Ivo Slaus, "Tito's Nuclear Legacy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 56, No. 2, March/April 2000, <http://www.bullatomsci.org>.
 [10] "Krsko Nuclear Powerplant at Full Operation," Tanjug, 12 February 1982, in FBIS, Doc. No. FBIS-EEU-82-030; Nada Stanic, "Yugoslavia Aiming to Define Next 20 Years of Nuclear Growth by Year End," Nucleonics Week, Vol. 22, No. 9, March 5, 1981, via Lexis-Nexis.
[11]  Mark Hibbs, "Vinca Wants Fresh HEU Removed in View of Growing Serbian Unrest," Nuclear Fuel, Vol. 22, No. 3, February 10, 1997.
 [12] "YUG/1/011: Construction of a Cyclotron," International Atomic Energy Agency, 1988, <http://www-tc.iaea.org>.
 [13] "NTI Commits $5 Million to Help Secure Vulnerable Nuclear Weapons Material," Nuclear Threat Initiative, August 23, 2002, <http://www.nti.org>.

	Updated June 2004