Nuclear Material(s)

A collective term for materials so designated in this Order. For information, these materials are americium-241, americium-243, californium, curium, deuterium, enriched lithium, neptunium-237, plutonium-238, plutonium-239-241, plutonium-242, thorium, tritium, depleted uranium, normal uranium, enriched uranium, and uranium-233.

Nuclear Material means any material that is “Special Nuclear Material,” “byproduct material,” or “source material” as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The definition of "nuclear material" as used for the purposes of this manual may differ from the definition of nuclear material used with other MC&A and materials management programs.

a. All material so designated by Secretary of Energy. At present, these materials are depleted uranium, enriched uranium, americium-241, americium-243, curium plutonium 238, Plutonium-239 - 241, Plutonium-242, lithium-6, uranium-233, normal uranium, neptunium 237, deuterium, tritium, and thorium.

b. SNM, byproduct material, or source material as defined in 42 U.S.C. 2014 (aa), (e), and (z) [Sections 11(aa), (e), and (z), respectively, of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as amended], or any other material used in the production, testing, use, or assembly or nuclear weapons or components of nuclear weapons that the Secretary of Energy determines to be nuclear material in accordance with 10 CFR 1017.9.