Artikel 18

For the purpose of this Protocol:
a) The Kingdom of the Netherlands, in respect of its Caribbean parts, means the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in respect of all its constituent parts which are situated outside Europe, irrespective of its internal division of competence.
b) Caribbean parts mean Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and/or the Caribbean part of the Netherlands (the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba).
c) Nuclear fuel cycle-related research and development activities means those activities which are specifically related to any process or system development aspect of any of the following: – conversion of nuclear material,
– enrichment of nuclear material,
– nuclear fuel fabrication,
– reactors,
– critical facilities,
– reprocessing of nuclear fuel,
– processing (not including repackaging or conditioning not involving the separation of elements, for storage or disposal) of intermediate or high-level waste containing plutonium, high enriched uranium or uranium-233, but do not include activities related to theoretical or basic scientific research or to research and development on industrial radioisotope applications, medical, hydrological and agricultural applications, health and environmental effects and improved maintenance.
– conversion of nuclear material,
– enrichment of nuclear material,
– nuclear fuel fabrication,
– reactors,
– critical facilities,
– reprocessing of nuclear fuel,
– processing (not including repackaging or conditioning not involving the separation of elements, for storage or disposal) of intermediate or high-level waste containing plutonium, high enriched uranium or uranium-233,
d) Site means that area delimited by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the relevant design information for a facility, including a closed-down facility, and in the relevant information on a location outside facilities where nuclear material is customarily used, including a closed-down location outside facilities where nuclear material was customarily used (this is limited to locations with hot cells or where activities related to conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication or reprocessing were carried out). It shall also include all installations, co-located with the facility or location, for the provision or use of essential services, including: hot cells for processing irradiated materials not containing nuclear material; installations for the treatment, storage and disposal of waste; and buildings associated with specified activities identified by the Kingdom of the Netherlands under Article 2.a.(iv) above.
e) Decommissioned facility or decommissioned location outside facilities means an installation or location at which residual structures and equipment essential for its use have been removed or rendered inoperable so that it is not used to store and can no longer be used to handle, process or utilize nuclear material.
f) Closed-down facility or closed-down location outside facilities means an installation or location where operations have been stopped and the nuclear material removed but which has not been decommissioned.
g) High enriched uranium means uranium containing 20 percent or more of the isotope uranium-235.
h) Location-specific environmental sampling means the collection of environmental samples (e.g., air, water, vegetation, soil, smears) at, and in the immediate vicinity of, a location specified by the Agency for the purpose of assisting the Agency to draw conclusions about the absence of undeclared nuclear material or nuclear activities at the specified location.
i) Wide-area environmental sampling means the collection of environmental samples (e.g., air, water, vegetation, soil, smears) at a set of locations specified by the Agency for the purpose of assisting the Agency to draw conclusions about the absence of undeclared nuclear material or nuclear activities over a wide area.
j) Nuclear material means any source or any special fissionable material as defined in Article XX of the Statute. The term source material shall not be interpreted as applying to ore or ore residue. Any determination by the Board under Article XX of the Statute of the Agency after the entry into force of this Protocol which adds to the materials considered to be source material or special fissionable material shall have effect under this Protocol only upon acceptance by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
k) Facility means: (i) A reactor, a critical facility, a conversion plant, a fabrication plant, a reprocessing plant, an isotope separation plant or a separate storage installation; or
(ii) Any location where nuclear material in amounts greater than one effective kilogram is customarily used.
(i) A reactor, a critical facility, a conversion plant, a fabrication plant, a reprocessing plant, an isotope separation plant or a separate storage installation; or
(ii) Any location where nuclear material in amounts greater than one effective kilogram is customarily used.
l) Location outside facilities means any installation or location, which is not a facility, where nuclear material is customarily used in amounts of one effective kilogram or less.