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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2376",
  "legislation_title": "The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989",
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  "number": "GROUP 2A",
  "heading": "Atomic Energy Minerals and Materials",
  "text": "A1\nSpecial and other fissile materials\nC\nexcept\nthree effective grammes or less when contained in a sensing cpomponent in instruments.\nspecial or other fissile materials contained in heart pacemakers.\nIn this entry—\n1 “special fissile materials” means plutonium-239, uranium-233, uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233, and any material containing the foregoing.\n2 “uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233” means uranium containing the isotopes 235 or 233, or both, in an amount such that the abundance ratio of the sum of these isotopes to the isotope 238 is more than the ratio of the isotope 235 to the isotope 238 occurring in nature (isotope ratio 0.72 per cent);\n3 “other fissile material” means previously separated americium-242m, curium-245 and -247, californium-249 and -251 isotopes of plutonium other than -239, and any material containing the foregoing;\n4 “effective gramme” of special or other fissile material is defined as follows:\n(a) for plutonium isotopes and uranium-233, the isotope weight in grammes;\n(b) for uranium enriched 1 per cent or greater in the isotope U-235, the element weight in grammes multiplied by the square or its enrichment expressed as a decimal weight fraction;\n(c) for uranium enriched below 1 per cent in the esotope U-235, the element weight in grammes multiplied by 0.0001;\n(d) for americium-242m, curium-245 and -247, and californium-249 and -251, the esotope weight to grammes multiplied by 10.\n5 For the purposes of this item the term “previously separated” means the application of any process intended to increase the concentration of the controlled isotope.\nA2\nSource material, the following—\nNatural and depleted uranium, in any form, or incorporated in any substance in which the concentration of uranium exceeds 0.05%\nC\nIn this entry—\n“natural uranium” means uranium contining the mixtures of esotopes occurring in nature;\n“depleted uranium” means uranium depleted in the isotope 235 below that occurring in nature.\nPL6001\nSource material, the following—\nThorium, in any form, or incorporated in any substance in which the concentration of thorium exceeds 0.05%\nC\nexcept alloys containing less than 5% thorium.\nA3\nDeuterium, heavy water, deuterated paraffins, and simple or complex lithium deuterides, and mixtures and solutions containing deuterium, in which the instopic ratio of deuterium to hydrogen exceeds 1:5,000\nC\nPL6012\nCompounds of deuterium\nC\nA4\nZirconium in which the ratio of hafnium content to zirconium content is less than one part to five hundred parts by weight, the following—\n(a) Zirconium and alloys containing more than 50% zirconium, in crude or semi-fabricated forms\nC\n(b) Zirconium compounds, except zirconium oxide thermally stabilised with calcium oxide or magnesium oxide or both\nC\n(c) Manufactures wholly of any of the foregoing\nC\nA5\nNickel powder and porous nickel metal, the following—\n(a) Powder with a nickel content of 99% or more tha a mean particle size of less than 100 micrometres, whether compacted or not\nC\n(b) Porous nickel metal material produced from materials specified in head (a) above except single porous nickel metal sheets not exceeding 930 cm2 intended for use in batteries for civil applications\nC\nPL6011\nGraphite, nuclear-grade, having a purity level of less than 5 parts per million boron equivalent and with a density greater than 1.5 g/cm3\nC\nA7\nLithium, the following—\n(a) Lithium and alloys containing 50 per cent or more of lithium, in crude or semi-fabricated forms\nC\n(b) Lithium and alloys, mixtures, concentrates and compounds, containing lithium enriched in the lithium-6 isotope\nC\n(c) Hydrides in which lithium, whether normal, depleted or enriched in the lithium-6 isotope, is compounded with hydrogen or its isotopes or complexed with other metals or aluminium hydride\nC\n(d) Substances not specified above containing lithium enriched in the lithium-6 isotope\nC\nA8\nHafnium, the following—\n(a) Hafnium and alloys containing more than 60 per cent of hafnium, in crude or semi-fabricated forms\nC\n(b) Hafnium compounds containing more than 60 per cent of hafnium\nC\n(c) Manufacurues of any of the foregoing\nC\nA9\nBerylium, the following—\n(a) Beryllium and alloys containing more than 50 per cent of beryllium, in crude or semi-fabricated forms\nC\n(b) Beryllium compounds\nC\n(c) Manufacturers of any of the foregoing except metal windows for medical X-ray machines and oxide shapes in fbricated or semi-fabricated forms specially designed for electronic component parts or as substrates for electronic circuits\nC\nPL6002\nFluorine\nC\nPL6003\nChlorine trifluoride\nC\nA12\nTritium, compounds and mixtures containing tritium in which the ratio of tritium to hydrogen by atoms exceeds 1 part in 1,000, and products containing ore or more of the foregoing\nC\nexcept\n(i) labelled compounds not exceeding 100 curies per shipment (in this entry “labelled compounds” means compounds in which one of the atoms is a different isotope from that found normally);\n(ii) tritium contained in luminous paint, self-luminous products, gas and aerosol detectors, electron tubes, lightning or static elimination devices, ion generating tubes, detector cells of gas chromatography devices, and calibration standards, provided that each product or device contains not more than 40 curies of tritium in any chemical or physical form;\n(iii) compounds and mixtures of tritium, where the separation of the constituents cannot result in the evolution of an isotopic mixture of hydrogen in which the ratio of tritium to hydrogen by atoms exceeds 1 part in 1,000\nA13\nMaterials for nuclear heat sources, the following—\n(a) Plutonium in any form with a plutonium isotopic assay of pultonium 238\nC\nexcept\n(i) three effective grammes or less when contained in a sensing component in instruments;\n(ii) plutonium-238 contained in heart pacemakers.\nNote: for plutonium-238 not for nuclear heat sources see entry A1 in this Group.\n(b) Previously separated neptunium-237 in any form\nC\nIn this entry—\n“previously separated” means the application of any process intended to increase the concentration of the controlled isotope.\nA14\nSpecially designed or prepared materials for the separation of isotopes of natural uranium, depleted uranium and special and other fissile materials, including specially designed chemical exchange resins\nC\nNote 1: see entries A1 and A2 in this Group for the special and other fissile materials to which this entry refers.\nNote 2: for isotopic separation plants, see the entry in Group 2B relating thereto.\nPL6005\nCalcium containing less than 100 perts per million by weight of impurities other than magnesium and less than 10 parts per million by weight of boron\nC\nPL6006\nAlloys containing a higher percentage of megnesium than of any other element and 10% or more of lithium\nC",
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