---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2240"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2240"
heading: "Licensee incident reports as evidence"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2240"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter XV — Judicial Review and Administrative Procedure"
---

# §2240. Licensee incident reports as evidence


No report by any licensee of any incident arising out of or in connection with a [licensed activity](/usc/42/2014.md?p=p) made pursuant to any requirement of the [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) shall be admitted as evidence in any suit or action for damages growing out of any matter mentioned in such report.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 190, as added Pub. L. 87–206, § 16, Sept. 6, 1961, 75 Stat. 479; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)