Appendix E to Part 73 - Levels of Physical Protection To Be Applied in International Transport of Nuclear Material 1
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Appendix E to Part 73 - Levels of Physical Protection To Be Applied
in International Transport of Nuclear Material 1
1 See appendix C to part 110 of this chapter from the physical
description of the categories of nuclear material as set forth in
Annex I to the Convention. For the purposes of this part, the
following categories of nuclear material are synonymous:
Category I is a formula quantity of strategic special nuclear
material;
Category II is special nuclear material of moderate strategic
significance or irradiated fuel; and
Category III is special nuclear material of low strategic
significance.
(Verbatim from Annex I to the Convention on the Physical
Protection of Nuclear Material)
(a) Levels of physical protection for nuclear material during
storage incidental to international nuclear transport include:
(1) For Category III materials, storage within an area to which
access is controlled;
(2) For Category II materials, storage within an area under
constant surveillance by guards or electronic devices, surrounded
by a physical barrier with a limited number of points of entry
under appropriate control or any area with an equivalent level of
physical protection;
(3) For Category I material, storage within a protected area as
defined for Category II, to which, in addition, access is
restricted to persons whose trustworthiness has been determined,
and which is under surveillance by guards who are in close
communication with appropriate response forces. Specific measures
taken in this context should have as their objective the detection
and prevention of any assault, unauthorized access, or unauthorized
removal of material.
(b) Levels of physical protection for nuclear material during
international transport include:
(1) For Category II and III materials, transportation shall take
place under special precautions including prior arrangements among
sender, receiver, and carrier, and prior agreement between natural
or legal persons subject to the jurisdiction and regulation of
exporting and importing States, specifying time, place and
procedures for transferring transport responsibility;
(2) For Category I materials, transportation shall take place
under special precautions identified for transportation of Category
II and III materials, and in addition, under constant surveillance
by escorts and under conditions which assure close communication
with appropriate response forces;
(3) For natural uranium other than in the form of ore or ore
residue, transportation protection for quantities exceeding 500
kilograms U shall include advance notification of shipment
specifying mode of transport, expected time of arrival and [shall
provide for] confirmation of receipt of shipment.
[52 FR 9654, Mar. 26, 1987]