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[CITE: 42USC2160d]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
          CHAPTER 23--DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY
 
                        Division A--Atomic Energy
 
                 SUBCHAPTER X--INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 2160d. Further restrictions on exports

    (a) The Commission may issue a license for the export of highly 
enriched uranium to be used as a fuel or target in a nuclear research or 
test reactor only if, in addition to any other requirement of this 
chapter, the Commission determines that--
        (1) there is no alternative nuclear reactor fuel or target 
    enriched in the isotope 235 to a lesser percent than the proposed 
    export, that can be used in that reactor;
        (2) the proposed recipient of that uranium has provided 
    assurances that, whenever an alternative nuclear reactor fuel or 
    target can be used in that reactor, it will use that alternative in 
    lieu of highly enriched uranium; and
        (3) the United States Government is actively developing an 
    alternative nuclear reactor fuel or target that can be used in that 
    reactor.

    (b) As used in this section--
        (1) the term ``alternative nuclear reactor fuel or target'' 
    means a nuclear reactor fuel or target which is enriched to less 
    than 20 percent in the isotope U-235;
        (2) the term ``highly enriched uranium'' means uranium enriched 
    to 20 percent or more in the isotope U-235; and
        (3) a fuel or target ``can be used'' in a nuclear research or 
    test reactor if--
            (A) the fuel or target has been qualified by the Reduced 
        Enrichment Research and Test Reactor Program of the Department 
        of Energy, and
            (B) use of the fuel or target will permit the large majority 
        of ongoing and planned experiments and isotope production to be 
        conducted in the reactor without a large percentage increase in 
        the total cost of operating the reactor.

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, Sec. 134, as added Pub. L. 102-486, 
title IX, Sec. 903(a)(1), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)
