The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Material balance report and physical inventory listing

15.—(1) For each material balance area, the operator must send to the ONR—

(a) material balance reports, in the format set out in Part 3 of Schedule 1, showing—

(i) the beginning physical inventory;

(ii) inventory changes (first increases, then decreases);

(iii) ending book inventory;

(iv) ending physical inventory; and

(v) material unaccounted for; and

(b) a physical inventory listing, in the format set out in Part 4 of Schedule 1, showing all batches separately.

(2) An operator must send the reports and the listing to the ONR as soon as possible and at the latest within the period of 15 days beginning with the day on which the physical inventory was taken.

(3) Unless otherwise specified in the particular safeguard provisions for the qualifying nuclear facility, a physical inventory for each material balance area must be taken every calendar year and the period between two successive physical inventory takings must not exceed 14 months.