---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2112"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2112"
heading: "Foreign distribution of byproduct material"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2112"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter VII — Byproduct Materials"
---

# §2112. Foreign distribution of byproduct material

- (a) **Cooperation with other Nations—** The [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) is authorized to cooperate with any nation by distributing [byproduct material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=e), and to distribute [byproduct material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=e), pursuant to the terms of an [agreement for cooperation](/usc/42/2014.md?p=b) to which such nation is party and which is made in accordance with [section 2153 of this title](/usc/42/2153.md).
- (b) **Distribution to individuals—** The [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) is also authorized to distribute [byproduct material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=e) to any [person](/usc/42/2014.md?p=s) outside the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb) upon application therefor by such [person](/usc/42/2014.md?p=s) and demand such charge for such material as would be charged for the material if it were distributed within the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb): Provided, however, That the [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) shall not distribute any such material to any [person](/usc/42/2014.md?p=s) under this section if, in its opinion, such distribution would be inimical to the [common defense and security](/usc/42/2014.md?p=g): And provided further, That the [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) may require such reports regarding the use of material distributed pursuant to the provisions of this section as it deems necessary.
- (c) **Distributor’s license—** The [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) is authorized to license others to distribute [byproduct material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=e) to any [person](/usc/42/2014.md?p=s) outside the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb) under the same conditions, except as to charges, as would be applicable if the material were distributed by the [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f).

## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 82, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 935; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)