Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§2094 Foreign distribution of source material
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 23— - DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - SOURCE MATERIAL › § 2094
Summary
The Commission may share source material with other countries under cooperation agreements made under section 2153. It may also send source material abroad if it finds doing so won’t be harmful to U.S. interests. Except for exports under a Nuclear Regulatory Commission export license, no recipient may receive more than three metric tons per year.
Full Legal Text
Title 42, §2094
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The Commission is authorized to cooperate with any nation by distributing source material and to distribute source material pursuant to the terms of an agreement for cooperation to which such nation is a party and which is made in accordance with section 2153 of this title. The Commission is also authorized to distribute source material outside of the United States upon a determination by the Commission that such activity will not be inimical to the interests of the United States. The authority to distribute source material under this section other than under an export license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall in no case extend to quantities of source material in excess of three metric tons per year per recipient.
Legislative History
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Amendments
1978—Pub. L. 95–242 provided that the authority to distribute source material under this section other than under an export license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall in no case extend to quantities of source material in excess of three metric tons per year per recipient.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1978 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 95–242 effective Mar. 10, 1978, except as otherwise provided and regardless of any requirement for the promulgation of implementing
Regulations
, see section 603(c) of Pub. L. 95–242, set out as an
Effective Date
note under section 3201 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
Executive Documents
Performance of Functions Pending Development of ProceduresThe performance of functions under this chapter, as amended by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95–242, Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 120, not to be delayed pending development of procedures even though as many as 120 days [after Mar. 10, 1978] are allowed for establishing those procedures, see section 5(b) of Ex. Ord. No. 12058, May 11, 1978, 43 F.R. 20947, set out under section 3201 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
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42 U.S.C. § 2094
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
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