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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2017
[The Final Act of the Meeting of Governmental Representatives to Consider the Drafting of a Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, to which the Convention is annexed, has been reproduced from the text provided to International Legal Materials by the United Nations Secretariat. The text of the Convention starts at I.L.M. page 1422.
[The European Court of Justice Ruling on the participation of European Community Members in the absence of concurrent participation of the Community in such a Convention appears at 18 I.L.M. 85 (1979).]
a/ All plutonium except that with isotopic concentration exceeding 80% in plutonium-238.
b/ Material not irradiated in a reactor or material irradiated in a reactor but with a radiation level equal to or less than 100 rads/hour at one metre unshielded.
c/ Quantities not falling in Category III and natural uranium should be protected in accordance with prudent management practice.
d/ Although this level of protection is recommended, it would be open to States, upon evaluation of the specific circumstances, to assign a different category of physical protection.
e/ Other fuel which by virtue of its original fissile material content is classified as Category I and II before irradiation may be reduced one category level while the radiation level from the fuel exceeds 100 rads/hour at one metre unshielded.
