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Division Items of the NSG technology

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

  • 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:

    1. a..

      separated plutonium;

    2. b..

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

  • 0D001 (software) is included in Annex IV except insofar 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 insofar as these related to 0C001 or to those items of 0C002 that are excluded from Annex IV.

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.

    Note: 1B226 includes separators:

    1. a..

      Capable of enriching stable isotopes;

    2. 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:

    Technical Note:

    These materials are typically used for nuclear heat sources.

    1. 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.

    • 1B231

  • Tritium facilities or plants, and equipment therefor, as follows:

    1. a..

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

    2. b..

      Equipment for tritium facilities or plants, as follows:

      1. 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. 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:

    1. a..

      Facilities or plants for the separation of lithium isotopes;

    2. b..

      Equipment for the separation of lithium isotopes, as follows:

      1. 1..

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

      2. 2..

        Mercury or lithium amalgam pumps;

      3. 3..

        Lithium amalgam electrolysis cells;

      4. 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.

    Note: 1C233 does not control thermoluminescent dosimeters.

    Technical Note:

    The natural isotopic abundance of lithium-6 is approximately 6,5 weight per cent (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 1000, and products or devices containing any of the foregoing.

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

    • 1E001

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

    • 1E201

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

    • 3A228

  • Switching devices, as follows:

    1. a..

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

      1. 1..

        Containing three or more electrodes;

      2. 2..

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

      3. 3..

        Anode peak current rating of 100 A or more; and

      4. 4..

        Anode delay time of 10 μs or less;

      Note: 3A228 includes gas krytron tubes and vacuum sprytron tubes.

    2. b..

      Triggered spark gaps having both of the following characteristics:

      1. 1..

        An anode delay time of 15 μs or less; and

      2. 2..

        Rated for a peak current of 500 A or more;

    • 3A231

  • Neutron generator systems, including tubes, having both of the following characteristics:

    1. a..

      Designed for operation without an external vacuum system; and

    2. b..

      Utilizing 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.

    • 6A203

  • Cameras and components, other than those specified in 6A003, as follows:

    1. a..

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

      1. 1..

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

      2. 2..

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

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

    • 6A225

  • Velocity interferometers for measuring velocities exceeding 1 km/s during time intervals of less than 10 microseconds.

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

    • 6A226

  • Pressure sensors, as follows:

    1. a..

      Manganin gauges for pressures greater than 10 GPa;

    2. b..

      Quartz pressure transducers for pressures greater than 10 GPa.

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