Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 67 — Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support
§ 5860. Report on special nuclear materials
Statutory text
Not later than 180 days after , 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—
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;
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
a discussion of how highly enriched uranium stocks could be diluted for reactor fuel.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992
Pub. L. 102–511 title V § 510 · 106 Stat. 3320
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 5860
(Pub. L. 102–511, title V, § 510, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3344.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 102–511, title V, § 510, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3344.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 510. REPORT ON SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 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.
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