Importing
Importers must apply to the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) for a licence to import the following nuclear materials:
Individual import licences are needed for goods that fall under the relevant commodity codes and description.
- Tariff heading: 26 12 - Uranium Ore and concentrates.
- Tariff heading: 28 44 - Plutonium, Uranium 233, Uranium enriched in the isotopes 233 or 235, natural Uranium and mixtures, compounds and alloys containing any of the foregoing, including spent or irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements (cartridges).
Please be aware that imports from all countries require an import licence.
Exporting
On 2 October 2006 the Secretary of State published guidance on the Open general export licence (OGEL) for the export of radioactive sources.
The OGEL concerns specific radionuclides within certain activity levels.
Where a duty holder wishes to export one of the radionuclides concerned, it must register its use of this license beforehand and comply with the requirements of the OGEL.