Nuclear Energy Ordinance
(NEO)

¹ Nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als are:

a.

source ma­ter­i­als:

1.

nat­ur­al urani­um, i.e. urani­um with the mix­ture of iso­topes that oc­curs in nature,

2.

de­pleted urani­um, i.e. urani­um that has a lower per­cent­age of urani­um 235 than nat­ur­al urani­um,

3.

thori­um,

4.

the sub­stances men­tioned in num­bers 1-3 above in the form of met­al, al­loys, chem­ic­al com­pounds or con­cen­trates and oth­er ma­ter­i­als that con­tain one or more of the above­men­tioned sub­stances in a con­cen­tra­tion spe­cified by the In­ter­na­tion­al Atom­ic En­ergy Agency or high­er;

b.

spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als:

1.

plutoni­um 239,

2.

urani­um 233,

3.

urani­um 235,

4.

en­riched urani­um, i.e. urani­um in which the per­cent­age of urani­um 233, urani­um 235 or both iso­topes to­geth­er is high­er than that of urani­um 235 in nat­ur­al urani­um,

5.

the sub­stances men­tioned in num­bers 1-4 above in the form of met­al, al­loys, chem­ic­al com­pounds or con­cen­trates and oth­er ma­ter­i­als that con­tain one or more of the above­men­tioned sub­stances in a con­cen­tra­tion spe­cified by the In­ter­na­tion­al Atom­ic En­ergy Agency or high­er.

² The fol­low­ing are not clas­si­fied as nuc­le­ar ma­ter­i­als:

a.

urani­um and thori­um ores;

b.

source ma­ter­i­als and products made from source ma­ter­i­als that are not used for ob­tain­ing en­ergy by means of nuc­le­ar fis­sion pro­cesses, and in par­tic­u­lar shield­ing ma­ter­i­als, sensors in meas­ur­ing in­stru­ments, ceram­ic com­pounds and al­loys;

c.

spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als with a weight of up to 15 grams and products made from spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als that are not used for ob­tain­ing en­ergy by means of nuc­le­ar fis­sion pro­cesses, and in par­tic­u­lar sensors in meas­ur­ing in­stru­ments and oth­er fin­ished products for which the re­cov­ery of the spe­cial fis­sile ma­ter­i­als con­tained therein re­quires dis­pro­por­tion­ate tech­nic­al ef­fort or fin­an­cial ex­pense.