Atomic Energy Act, 1962
15. Requisitioning of any substance for
extracting uranium or plutonium
(1) The Central
Government shall have the right to require that any substance which, in the
opinion of the Central Government, contains uranium, plutonium or any of their
isotopes, shall be delivered to it and the Central Government may extract from
that substance the uranium, plutonium or any of their isotopes contained
therein and return the substance to the person concerned on payment of
compensation which shall be determined in accordance with section 21:
Provided that such compensation
shall not, in any case, exceed the cost incurred by the person in the
production, mining or irradiation of the substance and in determining the same
no account shall be taken of the value of the uranium, plutonium or any of
their isotopes extracted from the substance.
(2) Nothing in this
section shall prevent the Central Government from. permitting, subject to such
conditions as it may deem fit to impose, the use of small quantities of natural
uranium for the purpose of examination, test or analysis.