§6305 Definitions

Summary

Defines key words used in this part. Foreign person means either an individual who is not a U.S. citizen or not a lawful permanent resident, or a company/partnership or other non-government group formed under foreign law or with its main office outside the United States. Goods or technology covers nuclear materials, equipment, and sensitive nuclear tech (see section 3203 of this title), export items the President lists under section 2139a(c) of title 42, and technical help needing permission under section 2077(b) of title 42; for exports from other countries it means anything that would count as those items if sent from the U.S. IAEA safeguards means the safeguards in an agreement with the IAEA authorized by Article III(A)(5) of its Statute. Nuclear explosive device means any device designed to release nuclear energy instantly in an amount greater than the detonation of one pound of trinitrotoluene (TNT). Non-nuclear-weapon state means any country that is not a nuclear-weapon state as defined by Article IX(3) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed at Washington, London, and Moscow on July 1, 1968. Special nuclear material has the meaning given in section 2014(aa) of title 42. United States person means a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, or a non-government entity that is not a foreign person. Unsafeguarded special nuclear material means special nuclear material being held in violation of IAEA safeguards or not under those safeguards, except any amount that could be exported from the U.S. under a general license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.