The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989

GROUP 2B Nuclear Facilities, Equipment and Appliances

B1	Plants for the separation of isotopes of natural and depleted uranium and special and other fissile materials, and specially designed or prepared equipment and components therefor, including	C
	(a) Units capable of separating isotopes of natural uranium, depleted uranium, and special or other fissile materials, such as—
	(1) Gas cintrifuges	C
	(2) Jet nozzle separation units	C
	(3) Vortex separation units	C
	(4) Laser isotopic separation units	C
	(5) Chemical exchange separation units	C
	(6) Electromagnetic separation units	C
	(7) Plasma separation units	C
	(8) Gaseous diffusion separation units	C
	(b) Specially designed components for the above including—
	(1) Vlaves wholly made of or lined with nickel, nickel alloy, phosphor bronze, stainless steel, aluminium or aluminium alloy, corrosion resistant to uranium hexafluoride (UF6) or hydrogen fluoride (HF), 0.5 cm or greater in diameter with bellows seal	C
	(2) Blowers and compressors (turbo, centrifugal and axial flow types) wholly made of or lined with nickel, nickel alloy, phosphor bronze, stainless steel, aluminium or aluminium alloy, corrosion resistant to uranium hexafluoride (UF6) or hydrogen fluoride (HF) and having a capacity of 1,700 litres (1.7m3) per minute or greater, including compressor seals	C
	(3) Gaseous diffusion barriers	C
	(4) Gaseous diffusion housings	C
	(5) Heat exchangers made of alumium, copper, nickel or nickel alloys, separately or together, and heat exchangers incorporating tubing clad with alumium copper, nickel or nickel alloys, separately or together, and in which the other parts are made wholly of the foregoing metals, separately or together, designed to operate at sub-atmospheric presssure with a leak rate of less than 10 pascal (0.1 millibar) per hour under a pressure differential of 105 pascal (a bar)	C
	(For specially designed or prepared materials for the separtion of sotopes, see the entry A14 in Group 2A.)
B2	Plants for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel and equipment and components specially designed or prepared therefor, or capable of being adapted for use therein, including—	C
	(a) Fuel element chopping or shredding machines	C
	(b) Criticality safe tanks (eg small diameter, annular or slab tanks)	C
	(c) Counter-current solvent extractors and ion-exchange processing equipment	C
	(d) Process control or instrumentation specially designed or prepared for monitoring or controlling the reprocessing of irradiated source and special and other fissile materials	C
	In this entry “plant for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel” includes equipment and components which normally come into direct contact with and directly control the irradiated fuel and the major nuclear material and fission product processing streams. Note: For process control equipment for lithium, see entry PL6010 in this Group.
B3	Nuclear reactors, ie reactors capable of operation so as to maintain a controlled, self-sustaining fission chain reaction, and equipment and components specially designed or prepared for use in connection with a nuclear reactor, including—	C
	(a) Pressure vessels, ie metal vessels as complete units or as major shop-fabricated parts therefor	C
	(b) Fuel element handling equipment, including reactor fuel charging and discharging equipment	C
	(c) Control rods, including the neutron absorbing part and the support or suspension structures therefor, and control rod guide tubes	C
	(d) Electronic controls for controllng the power levels in nuclear reactors, including reactor control rod drive mechanisms and radiation detection and measuring instruments to determine neutron flux levels	C
	(e) Pressure tubes	C
	(f) Coolant pumps	C
	(g) Internals specially designed or prepared for the operation of a nuclear reactor, including but not limited to core support structures, thermal shields, baffles, core grid plates and diffuser plates	C
	(h) Heat exchangers	C
	In this entry “nuclear reactor” includes the items within or attached directly to the reactor vessel, the equipment which controls the level of power in the core, and the components which normally contain or come into direct contact with or control the primary coolant of the reactor core.
B4	Plants specially designed for the fabrication of nuclear reactor fuel elements and specially designed equipment therefor	C
	Note: A plant for the fabrication of nuclear reactor fuel elements includes equipment which (1) normally comes into direct contact with or directly processes or controls the production flow of nuclear materials, (2) seals the nuclear material within the cladding, (3) checks the ingegrity of the cladding or the seal, and (4) checks the finish treatment of the solid fuel.
B5	Plants for the production or concentration of heavy water, deuterium, or deuterium comounds, and specially designed or prepared equipment and compounds therefor	C
B6	Plants for the production of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) and specially designed or prepared equipment (including UF6 purification equipment) and components therefor	C
C1	Neutron generator systems, including tubes, designed for operation without an external vacuum system and utilizing electrostatic acceleration to induce a tritium-deuterium nuclear reaction	C
C2	Power generating or propulsion equipment specially designed or adapted for use with military, space, marine or mobile neclear reactors	C
C3	Electrolytic cells for the production of fluorine with a production capacity greater than 250 g of fluorine per hour	C
C4	Equipment specially designed for the separation of isotopes of lithium	C
	(For plants for the separation of isotopes other than lithium, see the entry for such plants in this Group.)
C5	Equipment specially designed for the production or recovery of tritium	C
C6	Frequency changers (converters or inverters) capable of a multi-phase electrical output of between 600-2,000 Hz, and specially designed components therefor, for use in gas centrifuge plants	C
PL6007	Equipment specially designed for the manufacture or assembly of gas centrifuges capable of the enrichment or separation of isotopes and specially designed parts, components and equipment therefor	C
	(For gas centrifuge plants, see entry B1, plants for separation of isotopes, in this Group.)
PL6008	Mass spectrometers and mass spectrometer sources designed for measuring the isotopic composition of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas, uranium and uranyl compounds	C
PL6009	Pressure gauges capable of measuring pressures to 100 Torr (1332.2 newtons per square metre) or less having sensing elements of nickel, nickel alloy, phosphor bronze, stainless steel, aluminium or aluminium alloy, corrosion resistant to uranium hexafluoride (UF6) or hydrogen fluoride (HF); and such sensing elements	C
PL6010	Process control equipment or instrumentation specially designed or prepared for monitoring or controlling the reprocessing of irradiated lithium	C