Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§3224 Reevaluation of Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Title 22 › CHAPTER 47 — NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION › SUBCHAPTER I — UNITED STATES INITIATIVES TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY › § 3224

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

President must ask all nuclear supplier and recipient nations to reevaluate fuel cycle, focusing on avoiding pure plutonium and highly enriched uranium, spent fuel storage, and safeguards, and must report progress in the first report.

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Title 22, §3224

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The President shall take immediate initiatives to invite all nuclear supplier and recipient nations to reevaluate all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, with emphasis on alternatives to an economy based on the separation of pure plutonium or the presence of high enriched uranium, methods to deal with spent fuel storage, and methods to improve the safeguards for existing nuclear technology. The President shall, in the first report required by section 3281 of this title, detail the progress of such international reevaluation.

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Effective Date

Section effective Mar. 10, 1978, except as otherwise provided and regardless of any requirements for the promulgation of implementing

Regulations

, see section 603(c) of Pub. L. 95–242, set out as a note under section 3201 of this title.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions Secretary of State responsible for performing functions vested in President under this section, see section 2(a) of Ex. Ord. No. 12058, May 11, 1978, 43 F.R. 20947, set out as a note under section 3201 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 3224

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102