---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2052"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2052"
heading: "Research by Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2052"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter III — Research"
---

# §2052. Research by Commission


The [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) is authorized and directed to conduct, through its own facilities, activities and studies of the types specified in [section 2051 of this title](/usc/42/2051.md).


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 32, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 928; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 1803(b) of this title, prior to the general amendment and renumbering of act Aug. 1, 1946, by act Aug. 30, 1954.