Regulation 3 Prescribed installations

There are hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 1(1)(b) of the Act any installations of any of the following descriptions, that is to say—

(1)

any installation designed or adapted for the carrying out of any process involved in the manufacture from—

(a)

enriched uranium,

(b)

plutonium,

(c)

any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing enriched uranium,

(d)

any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing plutonium,

of fuel elements to be used for the production of atomic energy;

(2)

any installation designed or adapted for the carrying out of any process (not being a process carried out solely for the purposes of chemical or isotopic assay or metallographic investigation) involved in—

(a)

the production from—

(i)

enriched uranium,

(ii)

any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing enriched uranium,

of any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing enriched uranium,

(b)

the production from—

(i)

plutonium,

(ii)

any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing plutonium,

of any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing plutonium,

(c)

the production, from any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing enriched uranium, of enriched uranium,

(d)

the production, from any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing plutonium, of plutonium;

(3)

any installation designed or adapted for the incorporation of—

(a)

enriched uranium,

(b)

any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing enriched uranium,

(c)

plutonium,

(d)

any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing plutonium,

in any device designed to form part of a nuclear assembly or designed for irradiation in a nuclear reactor other than a device designed solely for the purpose of measuring neutron flux;

(4)

any installation comprising a nuclear assembly designed or adapted for the production of neutrons and containing—

(a)

enriched uranium,

(b)

any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing enriched uranium,

(c)

plutonium,

(d)

any alloy, chemical compound, mixture or combination containing plutonium,

and in which a controlled chain reaction can be maintained with an additional source of neutrons;

(5)

any installation designed or adapted for the processing of irradiated nuclear fuel other than processing carried out solely for the purpose of chemical or isotopic assay or metallographic investigation of such nuclear fuel;

(6)

any installation designed or adapted for storage of—

(a)

fuel elements referred to in paragraph (1) of this Regulation,

(b)

irradiated nuclear fuel.

(c)

bulk quantities of any other radioactive matter which has been produced or irradiated in the course of the production or use of nuclear fuel,

other than storage incidental to carriage and in the case of irradiated nuclear fuel other than storage incidental to any of the excepted purposes referred to in paragraph (5) of this Regulation;

(7)

any installation designed or adapted for—

(a)

any treatment of irradiated matter which involves the extraction therefrom of plutonium or uranium,

(b)

any treatment of uranium whether enriched or not such as to increase the proportion of the isotope 235 contained therein;

(8)

any installation designed or adapted for the carrying on of any process involved in the production from nuclear matter, not being excepted matter, of isotopes prepared for use for industrial, chemical, agricultural, medical or scientific purposes.