Fissile material as specified under 1) and large sources as specified under 2) shall not be accepted for carriage to/from or through Germany without prior permission by the:

- Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
  Postfach 10 01 49
  D-38201 Salzgitter, Germany
  Telephone: 030 18 333 1770
  Facsimile: 030 18 333 1705

  1. For the purpose of this variation, fissile material (nuclear fuels), as defined in paragraph 2.1 of the German law on atomic energy, are:

     1. plutonium-239 and plutonium-241;

     2. uranium enriched with the isotopes uranium-235 or uranium-233;

     3. any material containing one or more of the materials given in a) and b); and

     4. materials of such kind as to enable a continuous self-sustaining chain reaction to be maintained in a suitable installation (reactor) and which are defined in a legal degree.

     Materials (other than solidified high radioactive fission product solutions from reprocessing of nuclear fuels) containing the isotopes uranium-233, uranium-235, plutonium-239 and plutonium-241 in such quantities that the total quantity of all these isotopes is not more than 15 g or the concentration of all these isotopes in total is not greater than 15 g per 100 kg are exempted from this variation and therefore do not need prior permission.

  2. A shipment is to be treated as a large source if the activity per package exceeds 1000 TBq.