§2722 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

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The Secretary of Energy must run a recruitment and training program at the national security laboratories to support work on the nuclear weapons stockpile. The program must be run with the head of the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council and with the lab directors. Lab directors can hire undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers to do research for military or dual‑use stockpile work. The Secretary and lab directors must set up a group of retired scientists with nuclear weapons R&D experience. The labs can hire those retirees part time to help, archive knowledge, and train other scientists.

Title 50, §2722

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(a)(1)As part of the stockpile stewardship program established pursuant to section 2521 of this title, the Secretary of Energy shall conduct a stockpile stewardship recruitment and training program at the national security laboratories.

(2)The recruitment and training program shall be conducted in coordination with the Chairman of the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council established by section 179 of title 10 and the directors of the laboratories referred to in paragraph (1).

(b)As part of the recruitment and training program, the directors of the national security laboratories may employ undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows to carry out research sponsored by such laboratories for military or nonmilitary dual-use programs related to nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship.

(c)As part of the training and recruitment program, the Secretary, in coordination with the directors of the national security laboratories, shall establish for the laboratories a retiree corps of retired scientists who have expertise in research and development of nuclear weapons. The directors may employ the retired scientists on a part-time basis to provide appropriate assistance on nuclear weapons issues, to contribute relevant information to be archived, and to help to provide training to other scientists.

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2013—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 113–66, § 3146(g)(7)(A), substituted “national security laboratories” for “Sandia National Laboratories, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–66, § 3146(g)(7)(B), substituted “national security laboratories” for “laboratories referred to in subsection (a)(1)”. Pub. L. 112–239, § 3131(r)(1), struck out par. (1) designation and struck out par. (2) which read as follows: “Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy in section 3101(a)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (Public Law 103–337) for weapons activities for core research and development and allocated by the Secretary for education initiatives, $5,000,000 shall be available for employing students and fellows to carry out research referred to in paragraph (1). The amount available under this paragraph shall be allocated equally among the laboratories referred to in subsection (a)(1).” Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–66, § 3146(g)(7)(B), substituted “national security laboratories” for “laboratories referred to in subsection (a)(1)”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 112–239, § 3131(r)(2), struck out subsec. (d), which required the Secretary to submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report on the demographic trends of personnel. 2003—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 108–136, § 3141(i)(9)(D)(i), substituted “section 2521 of this title” for “section 3138 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law 103–160; 107 Stat. 1946; 42 U.S.C. 2121 note)”. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 108–136, § 3141(i)(9)(D)(ii), inserted “of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (Public Law 103–337)” after “section 3101(a)(1)”.

§2722 Stockpile Stewardship Recruitment and Training Program

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Title 50, §2722

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