Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§5860 Report on Special Nuclear Materials

Title 22 › Chapter 67— FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA AND EMERGING EURASIAN DEMOCRACIES AND OPEN MARKETS SUPPORT › Subchapter IV— NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES › § 5860

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 180 days after October 24, 1992, the Secretary of State, working with the Secretaries of Defense and Energy, must send Congress a report on options for the final handling of special nuclear materials from the former Soviet Union. The report must compare the costs and benefits of leaving the materials stored and guarded in those countries versus the United States acquiring them by purchase, barter, or other means; discuss issues like protecting U.S. uranium producers from dumping, the risk of illegal spread of the materials, and possible electricity and other savings if the material is used in U.S. fuel cycles; and explain how highly enriched uranium could be mixed down for use as reactor fuel.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §5860

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Not later than 180 days after October 24, 1992, the Secretary of State shall prepare, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy, and shall transmit to the Congress a report on the possible alternatives for the ultimate disposition of special nuclear materials of the former Soviet Union. This report shall include—

(1)a cost-benefit analysis comparing (A) the relative merits of the indefinite storage and safeguarding of such materials in the independent states of the former Soviet Union and (B) its acquisition by the United States by purchase, barter, or other means;

(2)a discussion of relevant issues such as the protection of United States uranium producers from dumping, the relative vulnerability of these stocks of special nuclear materials to illegal proliferation, and the potential electrical and other savings associated with their being made available in the fuel cycle in the United States; and

(3)a discussion of how highly enriched uranium stocks could be diluted for reactor fuel.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

22 U.S.C. § 5860

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60