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Isotopic reference materials - note on ordering radioactive materials

For the IRMM to obtain the necessary export approval, the end user must supply an end use undertaking. The end use undertaking must be:

  • An ORIGINAL document, not a copy

  • Be prepared on the end-users / consignee's headed notepaper,

  • Signed and dated by the end-user / consignee

  • Contain the appropriate wording

  • Include a description of the goods

  • Include the quantities to be exported

Facsimile or photocopies of the End-use Undertaking are not accepted. To avoid delays please complete all the required sections, in English if possible. “Nuclear explosive activity” includes research on or development, design, manufacture, construction, testing or maintenance of any nuclear explosive device or components or subsystems of such a device.

“Unsafeguarded nuclear fuel-cycle activity” includes research on or development, design, manufacture, construction, operation or maintenance of

  • any reactor, critical facility, conversion plant or fabrication plant, reprocessing plant, plant for the separation of isotopes of source or special fissionable material, or separate storage installation, where there is an obligation to accept International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards at the relevant facility or installation, existing or future, when it contains any source or special fissionable material which is not being met, or

  • any heavy water production plant, where there is an obligation to accept IAEA safeguards on any nuclear material produced by or used in connection with any heavy water production therefrom which is not being met and also includes any such activity where there is no such obligation.

Latest update 1 March, 2006

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