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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§2094 Foreign Distribution of Source Material

Title 42 › Chapter 23— DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY › Subchapter VI— SOURCE MATERIAL › § 2094

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission can give source material to other countries when working with them, including under cooperation agreements made under section 2153. The Commission may also send source material outside the United States if it decides that doing so will not harm U.S. interests. If the Commission sends material without an export license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it cannot send more than three metric tons per year to any one recipient.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §2094

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

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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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 2094

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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