---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2094"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2094"
heading: "Foreign distribution of source material"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2094"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Source Material"
---

# §2094. Foreign distribution of source material


The [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) is authorized to cooperate with any nation by distributing [source material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=z) and to distribute [source material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=z) pursuant to the terms of an [agreement for cooperation](/usc/42/2014.md?p=b) to which such nation is a party and which is made in accordance with [section 2153 of this title](/usc/42/2153.md). The [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) is also authorized to distribute [source material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=z) outside of the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb) upon a determination by the [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) that such activity will not be inimical to the interests of the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb). The authority to distribute [source material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=z) under this section other than under an export license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) shall in no case extend to quantities of [source material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=z) in excess of three metric tons per year per recipient.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 64, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 933; amended Pub. L. 95–242, title III, § 301(b), Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 125; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–242 provided that the authority to distribute source material under this section other than under an export license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall in no case extend to quantities of source material in excess of three metric tons per year per recipient.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 95–242 effective Mar. 10, 1978, except as otherwise provided and regardless of any requirement for the promulgation of implementing regulations, see section 603(c) of Pub. L. 95–242, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3201 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

### Executive Documents

### Performance of Functions Pending Development of Procedures

The performance of functions under this chapter, as amended by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95–242, Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 120, not to be delayed pending development of procedures even though as many as 120 days [after Mar. 10, 1978] are allowed for establishing those procedures, see section 5(b) of Ex. Ord. No. 12058, May 11, 1978, 43 F.R. 20947, set out under section 3201 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.