The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) signed an Arrangement for Technical Cooperation with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) owned by the Department of Energy (DOE) of the United States of America, on June 22, 2011, to start a cooperative partnership.

Under the agreement, the organizations will stimulate the initiation and coordination of cooperative activities, exchanging scientific and technological information and facilitate the exchange of scientists, engineers or other experts, and other forms of bilateral cooperation. The deal will also allow the two sides to cooperate in the areas of, nuclear safeguards technologies, security and physical protection technologies, technologies and methods relating to assessment and improvement of the proliferation resistance global civilian nuclear fuel cycle, technologies and methods related to process monitoring and transparency, advanced material simulation and modeling, quantum optics and laser technologies, etc.

The Arrangement was signed and endorsed at LLNL headquarters in Livermore, California, by Youn Ho Jung, president of KAERI and George H. Miller, Lab. Director with representatives from both sides attending.

Both sides identified possible areas of mutually beneficial cooperation in the computational modeling and simulation, nuclear fuel cycle safeguards technology, nuclear forensics, etc. at the meeting held prior to the signing of the Arrangement. Dr. Jung expressed his hope that bilateral cooperation will be further promoted based on the newly signed Arrangement and this institutional framework will take the excellent relationship between LLNL and KAERI to a new level and that opportunities created by this Arrangement will provide a solid platform for strengthened cooperation in the future.

KAERI delegation made a tour of the National Ignition Facility(NIF), the world's largest and most energetic laser which has the goal of achieving fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for the first time.