---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6322"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6322"
heading: "IAEA internal reforms"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6322"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Nuclear Proliferation Prevention"
  - "Subchapter II — International Atomic Energy Agency"
---

# §6322. IAEA internal reforms


In order to promote the early adoption of reforms in the implementation of the safeguards responsibilities of the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2), the Congress urges the President to negotiate with other nations and groups of nations, including the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) Board of Governors and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, to—

- (1) improve the access of the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) within nuclear facilities that are capable of producing, processing, or fabricating [special nuclear material](/usc/22/6305.md?p=6) suitable for use in a [nuclear explosive device](/usc/22/6305.md?p=4);
- (2)
  - (A) facilitate the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2)’s efforts to meet and to maintain its own goals for detecting the diversion of nuclear materials and equipment, giving particular attention to facilities in which there are bulk quantities of plutonium; and
  - (B) if it is not technically feasible for the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) to meet those detection goals in a particular facility, require the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) to declare publicly that it is unable to do so;
- (3) enable the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) to issue fines for violations of safeguards procedures, to pay rewards for information on possible safeguards violations, and to establish a “hot line” for the reporting of such violations and other illicit uses of weapons-grade nuclear material;
- (4) establish safeguards at facilities engaged in the manufacture of equipment or material that is especially designated or prepared for the processing, use, or production of [special fissionable material](/usc/22/6324.md?p=4) or, in the case of [non-nuclear-weapon states](/usc/22/6305.md?p=5), of any [nuclear explosive device](/usc/22/6305.md?p=4);
- (5) establish safeguards over nuclear research and development activities and facilities;
- (6) implement special inspections of undeclared nuclear facilities, as provided for under existing safeguards procedures, and seek authority for the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) to conduct challenge inspections on demand at suspected nuclear sites;
- (7) expand the scope of safeguards to include tritium, uranium concentrates, and nuclear waste containing [special fissionable material](/usc/22/6324.md?p=4), and increase the scope of such safeguards on heavy water;
- (8) revise downward the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2)’s official minimum amounts of nuclear material (“significant quantity”) needed to make a [nuclear explosive device](/usc/22/6305.md?p=4) and establish these amounts as national rather than facility standards;
- (9) expand the use of full-time resident [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) inspectors at sensitive fuel cycle facilities;
- (10) promote the use of [near real time material accountancy](/usc/22/6324.md?p=3) in the conduct of safeguards at facilities that use, produce, or store significant quantities of [special fissionable material](/usc/22/6324.md?p=4);
- (11) develop with other [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) member nations an agreement on procedures to expedite approvals of visa applications by [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) inspectors;
- (12) provide the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) the additional funds, technical assistance, and political [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) necessary to carry out the goals set forth in this subsection;[^1] and
- (13) make public the annual safeguards implementation report of the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2), establishing a public registry of commodities in international nuclear commerce, including dual-use goods, and creating a public repository of current nuclear trade control laws, agreements, regulations, and enforcement and judicial actions by [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) member nations.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “section;”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–236, title VIII, § 842, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 523.)