Are pressure transducers "nuke technology"?

I know how to create a pressure transducers.

A knife can be used to cut fruits and vegetables. Same knife can be used to kill people. So its difficult to say what thing can be used for what?

Planes are used for transportation but in 9/11 attack on US, Planes were used to destroy the towers.

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Pressure transducers are a controlled item in the United States and there are strict rules if they are going to be exported, Laporte said in a phone interview late Friday morning.

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As usual the media is clueless.

Pressure transducers in general aren't a controlled item, but some particular, specialized transducers are.

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It seems that pressure transducers are necessary for uranium hexafluoride enrichment, and therefore are controlled devices. "Pressure transducers (ECCNs: 4592, 1B51, 2B230) Pressure transducers are used to measure the pressure of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas in facilities that separate uranium isotopes by the gas centrifuge process. Pressure measuring devices that are compatible with UF6 are also used in UF6 production plants and nuclear fuel fabrication plants" So it's not paranoia after all.

It seems that pressure transducers are necessary for uranium hexafluoride enrichment, and therefore are controlled devices. "Pressure transducers (ECCNs: 4592, 1B51, 2B230) Pressure transducers are used to measure the pressure of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas in facilities that separate uranium isotopes by the gas centrifuge process. Pressure measuring devices that are compatible with UF6 are also used in UF6 production plants and nuclear fuel fabrication plants" So it's not paranoia after all.

So they measure gas pressure, which is done in most chemical and energy plants. Doesn't sound there is any reason to restrict general use technology.

You could ban almost anything because it *could* be used to produce nukes.

This sounds disingenuous. If a person is exporting a gadget that is designed for use in a sensitive process - then though it is in the same general class as gadgets used for innocent purposes, this one probably isn't - specially if he is taking pains to hide the details of its design.

Brian W

Fertilizer grows fruit or blows up federal buildings.

Fertilizer grows fruit or blows up federal buildings.

Wait till they start using ink as a nerve agent.... you'll have to be government certified to enjoy the freedom of the press.

Well, since Washington is hell-bent on running the entire world with ex-convicts, drunks, cocain dealers by teleprompter, and the uneducable in the idiot US, just go along for the ride, like the idiots they are, that's the reason people with brains work on drones and on-line publishing, rather than relative anything.

No, you don't get it - not yet. Try buying ammo-nitrate and fuel oil mix at the feed store and see what happens. Hell - try buying straight ammo-nitrate - it cannot be bought retail locally any more....

Brian W

According to the index of the Commerce Control List, available here:

" 2B230 ?Pressure transducers? capable of measuring absolute pressure at any point in the range 0 to 13 kPa, with pressure sensing elements made of or protected by nickel, nickel alloy with more than 60% nickel by weight, aluminum or aluminum alloy . . . . . . . . . . . . Cat 2-31 "

And from the Federal Register, Vol. 61, No. 58, Monday, March 25, 1996, available here:

" a. Transducers with a full scale of less than 13 kPa and an accuracy of better than ± 1% of full scale; b. Transducers with a full scale of 13 kPa or greater and an accuracy of better than ±130 Pa. "

So, the restriction seems to apply not to ALL pressure transducers, but only to ABSOLUTE pressure transducers that can accurately measure low pressures (one atmosphere is ~101 kPa) and the sensing element is made of or protected by certain materials (presumably for chemical compatibility with certain gases.)

Olin Perry Norton

Interesting. So, anyone who is really intent on getting around this stupid law can simply get a relative pressure transducer, and hook it up to a calibrated source.

Kind reminds me of my home town, which outlawed spoons.