Nuclear Energy Act, 1999 (Act No. 46 of 1999)

Declaration of certain substances, materials and equipment as restricted material, source material, special nuclear material and nuclear related equipment and material

Schedule 2 : Source Material
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Source material is any substance containing the following unless the Minister gives an exemption for insignificant quantities (as determined by the Minister and on specific applications)

(a)        uranium, expressed as a conversion to uranium oxide (U308) ;

(b)        thorium, expressed as a conversion to thorium oxide (Th02) ;

(c)        uranium by products of enrichment processes, e.g enriched in isotope U-238 or depleted in the isotope U-235;

(d)        uranium containing the mixture of isotopes occurring in nature.