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They don't ship the glowsticks internationally. IIRC it was the IAEA who told them to stop. I don't think you mess with the IAEA.

Heh, reminds me of an incident in my physicist days: we were working on a project (partially financed from IAEA technical assistance program) to extract uranium from ash produced by a particular coal-fired power station (the coal had something like 10 ppm of uranium in it, ash more around 100), removing sulphur dioxide from the exhaust in the process. I was routinely transporting samples (tens of kilograms) in institute's van or simply in the trunk of my car. That is, untill some environment protection inspector learned why we are transporting them, that is, what we are measuring in the samples. You might guess what came next - special licenses, special truck operated by licensed outrageously expensive company etc. We eneded up installing a portable laboratory in situ.

BTW, local greens raised hell about our project. We just renamed it as 'Removing sulphur dioxide...' etc.

It all came to nothing: the coal mine was closed down as too expensive to develop.

But, greens are dangerous in such occasions, not IAEA