§ 6322. — IAEA internal reforms.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC6322]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 72--NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION PREVENTION
SUBCHAPTER II--INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
Sec. 6322. IAEA internal reforms
In order to promote the early adoption of reforms in the
implementation of the safeguards responsibilities of the IAEA, the
Congress urges the President to negotiate with other nations and groups
of nations, including the IAEA Board of Governors and the Nuclear
Suppliers Group, to--
(1) improve the access of the IAEA within nuclear facilities
that are capable of producing, processing, or fabricating special
nuclear material suitable for use in a nuclear explosive device;
(2)(A) facilitate the IAEA's efforts to meet and to maintain its
own goals for detecting the diversion of nuclear materials and
equipment, giving particular attention to facilities in which there
are bulk quantities of plutonium; and
(B) if it is not technically feasible for the IAEA to meet those
detection goals in a particular facility, require the IAEA to
declare publicly that it is unable to do so;
(3) enable the IAEA to issue fines for violations of safeguards
procedures, to pay rewards for information on possible safeguards
violations, and to establish a ``hot line'' for the reporting of
such violations and other illicit uses of weapons-grade nuclear
material;
(4) establish safeguards at facilities engaged in the
manufacture of equipment or material that is especially designated
or prepared for the processing, use, or production of special
fissionable material or, in the case of non-nuclear-weapon states,
of any nuclear explosive device;
(5) establish safeguards over nuclear research and development
activities and facilities;
(6) implement special inspections of undeclared nuclear
facilities, as provided for under existing safeguards procedures,
and seek authority for the IAEA to conduct challenge inspections on
demand at suspected nuclear sites;
(7) expand the scope of safeguards to include tritium, uranium
concentrates, and nuclear waste containing special fissionable
material, and increase the scope of such safeguards on heavy water;
(8) revise downward the IAEA's official minimum amounts of
nuclear material (``significant quantity'') needed to make a nuclear
explosive device and establish these amounts as national rather than
facility standards;
(9) expand the use of full-time resident IAEA inspectors at
sensitive fuel cycle facilities;
(10) promote the use of near real time material accountancy in
the conduct of safeguards at facilities that use, produce, or store
significant quantities of special fissionable material;
(11) develop with other IAEA member nations an agreement on
procedures to expedite approvals of visa applications by IAEA
inspectors;
(12) provide the IAEA the additional funds, technical
assistance, and political support necessary to carry out the goals
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(13) make public the annual safeguards implementation report of
the IAEA, establishing a public registry of commodities in
international nuclear commerce, including dual-use goods, and
creating a public repository of current nuclear trade control laws,
agreements, regulations, and enforcement and judicial actions by
IAEA member nations.
(Pub. L. 103-236, title VIII, Sec. 842, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 523.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 6323 of this title.
