NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION (SAFEGUARDS) ACT 1987 - SCHEDULE 1 Article XX of the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION (SAFEGUARDS) ACT 1987 - SCHEDULE 1

Section   4

Article XX

Definitions

As used in this Statute:

1.   The term "special fissionable material" means plutonium - 239; uranium - 233; uranium enriched in the isotopes 235 or 233; any material containing one or more of the foregoing; and such other fissionable material as the Board of Governors shall from time to time determine; but the term "special fissionable material" does not include source material.

2.   The term "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 greater than the ratio of the isotope 235 to the isotope 238 occurring in nature.

3.   The term source material means uranium containing the mixture of isotopes occurring in nature; uranium depleted in the isotope 235; thorium; any of the foregoing in the form of metal, alloy, chemical compound, or concentrate; any other material containing one or more of the foregoing in such concentration as the Board of Governors shall from time to time determine; and such other material as the Board of Governors shall from to time to time determine.