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

    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...

        5. 1.4.Reactor control rods

        6. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        7. 1.6.Zirconium tubes

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

        9. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

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

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

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

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

        14. 3.1.Irradiated fuel element chopping machines

        15. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

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

        17. 3.2.Dissolvers

        18. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

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

        20. 3.4.Chemical holding or storage vessels

        21. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

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

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

        24. 5.1.Gas centrifuges and assemblies and components especially designed or prepared for use in gas centrifuges

        25. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

        26. 5.1.1.Rotating components

        27. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        28. 5.3.1.Gaseous diffusion barriers

        29. 5.5.1.Separation nozzles

        30. 5.5.2.Vortex tubes

        31. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        32. 5.6.1.Liquid-liquid exchange columns (Chemical exchange)

        33. 5.6.2.Liquid-liquid centrifugal contactors (Chemical exchange)

        34. 5.6.3.Uranium reduction systems and equipment (Chemical exchange)

        35. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        36. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        37. 5.6.5.Uranium oxidation systems (Chemical exchange)

        38. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        39. 5.6.6.Fast-reacting ion exchange resins/adsorbents (Ion exchange)

        40. 5.6.7.Ion exchange columns (Ion exchange)

        41. 5.6.8.Ion exchange reflux systems (Ion exchange)

        42. EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

        44. 5.7.Especially designed or prepared systems, equipment and components for use in laser-based enrichment plants

        45. INTRODUCTORY NOTE

        46. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        47. 5.7.1.Uranium vaporization systems (AVLIS)

        48. 5.7.2.Liquid uranium metal handling systems (AVLIS)

        49. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        50. 5.7.3.Uranium metal “product” and “tails” collector assemblies (AVLIS)

        51. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        52. 5.7.4.Separator module housings (AVLIS)

        53. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        54. 5.7.5.Supersonic expansion nozzles (MLIS)

        55. 5.7.6.Uranium pentafluoride product collectors (MLIS)

        56. 5.7.7.UF6/carrier gas compressors (MLIS)

        57. 5.7.8.Rotary shaft seals (MLIS)

        58. 5.7.9.Fluorination systems (MLIS)

        59. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        60. 5.7.10.UF6 mass spectrometers/ion sources (MLIS)

        61. 5.7.11.Feed systems/product and tails withdrawal systems (MLIS)

        62. 5.7.12.UF6/carrier gas separation systems (MLIS)

        63. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        64. 5.7.13.Laser systems (AVLIS, MLIS and CRISLA)

        65. EXPLANATORY NOTE

        66. 5.8.3.Uranium plasma generation systems

        67. 5.9.1.Electromagnetic isotope separators

        68. EXPLANATORY NOTE

  9. Explanatory Note