nostly on contracts with Niger and Gabon to supplement its more substantial dornestic uranirm production, in L977 the French Commissariat d 1'6nergie atonique entered into an agreenent vith Johannesburg Consotidated fndustries r,rhich entaiLecl -Francers provision of a S1OO roil.lion interest-free loan for gold and uranium development in exchange for 900 raetric tonnes of uranium per year for 10 years at a price ot ,52'f /Ib - W ln turn, according to Lrade sources, the United Kingdon will purchase l,300netric tonnes of uranium per year until 1982 fron the Rossing mine in Nemibia, or anoroxinately 5J r:er cent of current. BTitish ""qyil:T"it^::-.9 Similarly, Taiwan is rcported to have signed a contract to purchase 4'uuv rlcLlr- tonnes of uraniu.n betveen 19Bl+ and. 1990 fron South Africa. 18/ Dernonstratin5 in 12l lbid., pp. 22-2J. !3/ I,IIJS corDoration , Foreifln Uraniur Surrly , pp. l+-1 , l+-J ; and Nuclear---:-:-----:-:--ASSUranCe UOrDOra-C1On, SOUIn ArIrCa , p, l.-7r. l4l NUS CorDoration, Foreign Uranium Suooly, p. 4-3. G/ ,rurr.r, J, }/*t.ru"t., Uranium, Nonproliferation and Ene"gy security (Paris: The Atlartic Institute for fnternational Affairs, 1979), pp. 95-97. 15/ ttFrance Secures Long-Term S. African Uraaiu:n supply", Financial Tirnes ( rona6T) , ? June 1977. 17 l,lucl,ear Ner,rs " July 1978. lV !&rlg_Eg:ilSSS_yeettv., 1)+ April 1980, p. 2\.,,"/'li / I+a? il-nali s h Annex !-age I 0 yet another rn'ay the dependence of selected llestern countries on south African-controlled uranium, it is reported that, after canada, south Africa is the second.rnost irnportant supplier to the countries of the European Econonic cormunity. 1p/