law: 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.