The Nuclear Safeguards (Notification) Regulations 2004

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. Citation and commencement

3. 2. Interpretation

4. 3. Persons required to notify the Secretary of State

5. 4. (1) Subject to regulation 5, a person shall notify the...

6. 5. Persons not required to notify the Secretary of State

7. 6. Form of notification to the Secretary of State

8. Signature

9. 1. SCHEDULE

      1. PART I ACTIVITIES REFERRED TO IN REGULATIONS 3(1) AND 4(1)

         1. 1. The activities referred to in regulations 3(1) and 4(1) are:...

         2. 2. In paragraph 1: “centrifuge rotor tubes” means thin-walled cylinders as...

         3. 3. The numbered entries referred to in paragraph 2 are the...

      2. PART II EXTRACTS FROM ANNEX II TO THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL

         1. 1. REACTORS AND EQUIPMENT THEREFOR

         2. 1.1. Complete nuclear reactors

         3. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         4. It is not intended to exclude reactors which could reasonably...

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         6. 1.4. Reactor control rods

         7. EXPLANATORY NOTE

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         9. 1.6. Zirconium tubes

         10. 3. PLANTS FOR THE REPROCESSING OF IRRADIATED FUEL ELEMENTS, AND EQUIPMENT ESPECIALLY DESIGNED OR PREPARED THEREFOR

         11. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

         12. Purex facilities have process functions similar to each other, including:...

         13. A “plant for the reprocessing of irradiated fuel elements” includes...

         14. These processes, including the complete systems for plutonium conversion and...

         15. Items of equipment that are considered to fall within the...

         16. 3.1. Irradiated fuel element chopping machines

         17. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

         18. Remotely operated equipment especially designed or prepared for use in...

         19. 3.2. Dissolvers

         20. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

         21. Critically safe tanks (e.g. small diameter, annular or slab tanks)...

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         23. 3.4. Chemical holding or storage vessels

         24. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

         25. Especially designed or prepared holding or storage vessels for use...

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         27. 5. PLANTS FOR THE SEPARATION OF ISOTOPES OF URANIUM AND EQUIPMENT, OTHER THAN ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ESPECIALLY DESIGNED OR PREPARED THEREFOR

         28. 5.1. Gas centrifuges and assemblies and components especially designed or prepared for use in gas centrifuges

         29. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

         30. 5.1.1. Rotating components

         31. EXPLANATORY NOTE

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         33. 5.3.1. Gaseous diffusion barriers

         34. 5.5.1. Separation nozzles

         35. 5.5.2. Vortex tubes

         36. EXPLANATORY NOTE

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         38. 5.6.1. Liquid-liquid exchange columns (Chemical exchange)

         39. 5.6.2. Liquid-liquid centrifugal contactors (Chemical exchange)

         40. 5.6.3. Uranium reduction systems and equipment (Chemical exchange)

         41. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         42. EXPLANATORY NOTE

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         44. 5.6.5. Uranium oxidation systems (Chemical exchange)

         45. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         46. 5.6.6. Fast-reacting ion exchange resins/adsorbents (Ion exchange)

         47. 5.6.7. Ion exchange columns (Ion exchange)

         48. 5.6.8. Ion exchange reflux systems (Ion exchange)

         49. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         50. The process may use, for example, trivalent iron (Fe3+) as...

         51. 5.7. Especially designed or prepared systems, equipment and components for use in laser-based enrichment plants

         52. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

         53. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         54. 5.7.1. Uranium vaporization systems (AVLIS)

         55. 5.7.2. Liquid uranium metal handling systems (AVLIS)

         56. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         57. 5.7.3. Uranium metal “product” and “tails” collector assemblies (AVLIS)

         58. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         59. 5.7.4. Separator module housings (AVLIS)

         60. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         61. 5.7.5. Supersonic expansion nozzles (MLIS)

         62. 5.7.6. Uranium pentafluoride product collectors (MLIS)

         63. 5.7.7. UF₆/carrier gas compressors (MLIS)

         64. 5.7.8. Rotary shaft seals (MLIS)

         65. 5.7.9. Fluorination systems (MLIS)

         66. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         67. 5.7.10. UF₆ mass spectrometers/ion sources (MLIS)

         68. 5.7.11. Feed systems/product and tails withdrawal systems (MLIS)

         69. 5.7.12. UF₆/carrier gas separation systems (MLIS)

         70. EXPLANATORY NOTE

         71. 5.7.13. Laser systems (AVLIS, MLIS and CRISLA)

         72. EXPLANATORY NOTE

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         74. 5.8.3. Uranium plasma generation systems

         75. 5.9.1. Electromagnetic isotope separators

         76. EXPLANATORY NOTE

10. Explanatory Note