---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6353"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6353"
heading: "Activities at covered nuclear weapons facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6353"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 608 — Administrative Matters"
  - "Subchapter III — Facilities Management"
---

# §6353. Activities at covered nuclear weapons facilities


The [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) may authorize the manager of a covered nuclear weapons research, development, testing or production [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities with respect to the engineering and manufacturing capabilities at such [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) in order to maintain and enhance such capabilities at such [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2): Provided, That of the amount allocated to a covered nuclear weapons [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) each fiscal year from amounts available to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy for such fiscal year for [national security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), not more than an amount equal to 2 percent of such amount may be used for these activities: Provided further, That for purposes of this section, the term “covered nuclear weapons [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)” means the following:

- (1) The Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, Missouri.
- (2) The Y–12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
- (3) The Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas.
- (4) The Savannah River Plant, South Carolina.
- (5) The Nevada Test Site.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1454.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 308 of Pub. L. 108–447, which was set out as a note under section 2812 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(20).

Similar provisions were also contained in the following prior appropriation acts:

Pub. L. 108–137, title III, § 308, Dec. 1, 2003, 117 Stat. 1861.

Pub. L. 108–7, div. D, title III, § 308, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 154.

Pub. L. 107–66, title III, § 309, Nov. 12, 2001, 115 Stat. 509.

Pub. L. 106–377, § 1(a)(2) [title III, § 310], Oct. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1441, 1441A–80.