Council Regulation (EC) No 1334/2000 (repealed)Show full title

Items of the NSG technology U.K.

All Category 0 of Annex I is included in Annex IV, subject to the following: U.K.

• 0C001: this item is not included in Annex IV.

• 0C002: this item is not included in Annex IV, with the exception of special fissile materials as follows:

  a.

  separated plutonium;

  b.

  "uranium enriched in the isotopes 233 or 235" to more than 20 %.

• 0D001 (software) is included in Annex IV except in so far as it relates to 0C001 or to those items of 0C002 that are excluded from Annex IV.

• 0E001 (technology) is included in Annex IV except in so far as it relates to 0C001 or to those items of 0C002 that are excluded from Annex IV.

N.B.: For 0C003 and 0C004, only if for use in a "nuclear reactor" (within 0A001.a.). U.K.

1B226 Electromagnetic isotope separators designed for, or equipped with, single or multiple ion sources capable of providing a total ion beam current of 50 mA or greater. U.K.

Note: 1B226 includes separators: U.K.

a.

Capable of enriching stable isotopes;

b.

With the ion sources and collectors both in the magnetic field and those configurations in which they are external to the field.

1C012 Materials as follows: U.K.

Technical Note: U.K.

These materials are typically used for nuclear heat sources.

b.

"Previously separated" neptunium-237 in any form.

Note: 1C012.b. does not control shipments with a neptunium-237 content of 1 g or less. U.K.

1B231 Tritium facilities or plants, and equipment therefor, as follows: U.K.

a.

Facilities or plants for the production, recovery, extraction, concentration, or handling of tritium;

b.

Equipment for tritium facilities or plants, as follows:

1.

Hydrogen or helium refrigeration units capable of cooling to 23 K (− 250 °C) or less, with heat removal capacity greater than 150 W;

2.

Hydrogen isotope storage or purification systems using metal hydrides as the storage or purification medium.

1B233 Lithium isotope separation facilities or plants, and equipment therefor, as follows: U.K.

a.

Facilities or plants for the separation of lithium isotopes;

b.

Equipment for the separation of lithium isotopes, as follows:

1.

Packed liquid-liquid exchange columns specially designed for lithium amalgams;

2.

Mercury or lithium amalgam pumps;

3.

Lithium amalgam electrolysis cells;

4.

Evaporators for concentrated lithium hydroxide solution.

1C233 Lithium enriched in the lithium-6 (⁶Li) isotope to greater than its natural isotopic abundance, and products or devices containing enriched lithium, as follows: elemental lithium, alloys, compounds, mixtures containing lithium, manufactures thereof, waste or scrap of any of the foregoing. U.K.

Note: 1C233 does not control thermoluminescent dosimeters. U.K.

Technical Note: U.K.

The natural isotopic abundance of lithium-6 is approximately 6,5 weight % (7,5 atom per cent).

1C235 Tritium, tritium compounds, mixtures containing tritium in which the ratio of tritium to hydrogen atoms exceeds 1 part in 1 000, and products or devices containing any of the foregoing. U.K.

Note: 1C235 does not control a product or device containing less than 1,48 × 10³ GBq (40 Ci) of tritium. U.K.

1E001 "Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "development" or "production" of equipment or materials specified in 1C012.b. U.K.

1E201 "Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of goods specified in 1B226, 1B231, 1B233, 1C233 or 1C235. U.K.

3A228 Switching devices, as follows: U.K.

a.

Cold-cathode tubes, whether gas filled or not, operating similarly to a spark gap, having all of the following characteristics:

1.

Containing three or more electrodes;

2.

Anode peak voltage rating of 2,5 kV or more;

3.

Anode peak current rating of 100 A or more; and

4.

Anode delay time of 10 μs or less;

Note: 3A228includes gas krytron tubes and vacuum sprytron tubes. U.K.

b.

Triggered spark-gaps having both of the following characteristics:

1.

An anode delay time of 15 μs or less; and

2.

Rated for a peak current of 500 A or more.

3A231 Neutron generator systems, including tubes, having both of the following characteristics: U.K.

a.

Designed for operation without an external vacuum system; and

b.

Utilising electrostatic acceleration to induce a tritium-deuterium nuclear reaction.

3E201 "Technology" according to the General Technology Note for the "use" of equipment specified in 3A228.a., 3A228.b. or 3A231. U.K.

6A203 Cameras and components, other than those specified in 6A003, as follows: U.K.

Mechanical rotating mirror cameras, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

1.

Framing cameras with recording rates greater than 225 000 frames per second;

2.

Streak cameras with writing speeds greater than 0,5 mm per microsecond;

Note: In 6A203.a. components of such cameras include their synchronising electronics units and rotor assemblies consisting of turbines, mirrors and bearings. U.K.

6A225 Velocity interferometers for measuring velocities exceeding 1 km/s during time intervals of less than 10 microseconds. U.K.

Note: 6A225 includes velocity interferometers such as VISARs (Velocity interferometer systems for any reflector) and DLIs (Doppler laser interferometers). U.K.

6A226 Pressure sensors, as follows: U.K.

a.

Manganin gauges for pressures greater than 10 GPa;

b.

Quartz pressure transducers for pressures greater than 10 GPa.