---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6221"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6221"
heading: "Prohibition on international inspections of Department of Energy facilities unless protection of restricted data is certified"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6221"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 605 — Safeguards and Security Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — Safeguards and Security"
---

# §6221. Prohibition on international inspections of Department of Energy facilities unless protection of restricted data is certified


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy may not allow an inspection of a [national security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) laboratory or nuclear weapons production [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) by the International Atomic Energy [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) until the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) certifies to Congress that no Restricted Data will be revealed during such inspection.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1401.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6221 was renumbered section 8286 of this title.

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2651 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).