---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6122"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6122"
heading: "Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and certification of nuclear weapons stockpile"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6122"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 602 — Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — Stockpile Stewardship and Weapons Production"
---

# §6122. Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and certification of nuclear weapons stockpile

- (a) **Manufacturing Program.—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall carry out a [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) for purposes of establishing within the Government a manufacturing infrastructure that has the capabilities of meeting the following objectives:
    - (A) To provide a stockpile surveillance engineering base.
    - (B) To refabricate and certify weapon [components](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) and types in the enduring nuclear weapons stockpile, as necessary.
    - (C) To fabricate and certify new nuclear warheads, as necessary.
    - (D) To support nuclear weapons.
    - (E) To supply sufficient tritium in support of nuclear weapons to ensure an upload hedge in the event circumstances require.
  - (2) The purpose of the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) carried out under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall also be to develop manufacturing capabilities and capacities necessary to meet the requirements specified in the annual Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Memorandum.
- (b) **Required Capabilities.—** The manufacturing infrastructure established under the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include the following capabilities (modernized to attain the objectives referred to in that subsection):
  - (1) The weapons assembly and high explosives manufacturing capabilities of the Pantex Plant.
  - (2) The weapon secondary fabrication capabilities of the Y–12 [National Security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) Complex, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
  - (3) The capabilities of the Savannah River Site relating to tritium recycling and processing.
  - (4) The fissile material [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) processing and fabrication capabilities of the Savannah River Plutonium Processing [Facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  - (5) The non-nuclear [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) capabilities of the Kansas City [National Security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) Campus, Kansas City, Missouri.

## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2)(B), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1358, 1462.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2532 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

### Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.