The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Interpretation

49.  In this Part—

“equipment” means—

(a)

nuclear reactors and especially designed or prepared equipment and components therefor;

(b)

non-nuclear materials for reactors;

(c)

plants for the reprocessing of irradiated fuel elements and equipment especially designed or prepared therefor;

(d)

plants for the fabrication of nuclear reactor fuel elements, and equipment especially designed or prepared therefor;

(e)

plants for the separation of isotopes of natural uranium, depleted uranium or special fissionable material and equipment, other than analytical instruments, especially designed or prepared therefor;

(f)

plants for the production or concentration of heavy water, deuterium and deuterium compounds and equipment especially designed or prepared therefor;

(g)

plants for the conversion of uranium and plutonium for use in the fabrication of fuel elements and the separation of uranium isotopes and equipment especially designed or prepared therefor,

and each of those terms is more fully described in Annex B to the Agency’s Information Circular 254/Rev.13/Part 1 dated 8th November 2016;

“item” means—

(a)

non-nuclear material which means deuterium, heavy water and nuclear grade graphite;

(b)

byproduct material which means any radioactive material (except qualifying nuclear material) yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing qualifying nuclear material;

(c)

tritium which means compounds and mixtures which contain tritium in which the ratio of tritium to hydrogen by atoms is greater than 1 part per 1000;

(d)

equipment;

(e)

tritium-related equipment which means equipment, plants or facilities for the production, recovery, extraction, concentration, handling or storage of tritium;

(f)

technology which means specific information which is required for the development, production or use of any items of equipment or tritium-related equipment and which may take the form of technical data or technical assistance which terms are more fully described in Annex B to the Agency’s Information Circular 254/Rev.13/Part 1 dated 8th November 2016;

“relevant item” means an item which is subject to a specified international agreement;

“relevant qualifying nuclear material” means qualifying nuclear material which is subject to a specified international agreement;

“specified international agreement” means an agreement which is described in paragraphs (c) to (f) of regulation 3 of the Nuclear Safeguards (Fissionable Material and Relevant International Agreements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(1).

(1)

S.I. 2019/195.