---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 2364"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "2364"
heading: "Purchase of low-enriched uranium derived from Russian highly enriched uranium"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/2364"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction"
  - "Subchapter V — Miscellaneous"
---

# §2364. Purchase of low-enriched uranium derived from Russian highly enriched uranium

- (a) **Sense of Congress—** It is the sense of Congress that the allies of the United States and other nations should participate in efforts to ensure that stockpiles of weapons-grade nuclear material are reduced.
- (b) **Actions by Secretary of State—** Congress urges the Secretary of State to encourage, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, other countries to purchase low-enriched uranium that is derived from [highly enriched uranium](/usc/50/2302.md?p=3) extracted from Russian nuclear weapons.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XIV, § 1454, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2730.)