Title 50, Chapter 42
War and National Defense — 155 sections
- § 2501 Section 2501 - Definitions
- § 2511 Section 2511 - Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program
- § 2512 Section 2512 - Management structure for nuclear security enterprise
- § 2513 Section 2513 - Restriction on licensing requirement for certain defense activities and facilities
- § 2514 Section 2514 - Transferred
- § 2515 Section 2515 - Establishment of Center for Security Technology, Analysis, Response, and Testing
- § 2521 Section 2521 - Stockpile stewardship program
- § 2522 Section 2522 - Stockpile stewardship criteria
- § 2523 Section 2523 - Nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, management, and responsiveness plan
- § 2523a Section 2523a - Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI , § 3133(c)(1), Jan. 2, 2013 , 126 Stat. 2192
- § 2523b Section 2523b - Transferred
- § 2523c Section 2523c - Major warhead refurbishment program
- § 2524 Section 2524 - Stockpile management program
- § 2524a Section 2524a - Repealed. Pub. L. 111–84, div. C, title XXXI , § 3113(a)(1), Oct. 28, 2009 , 123 Stat. 2704
- § 2525 Section 2525 - Annual assessments and reports to the President and Congress regarding the condition of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile
- § 2526 Section 2526 - Form of certifications regarding the safety or reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile
- § 2527 Section 2527 - Nuclear test ban readiness program
- § 2528 Section 2528 - Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI , § 3133(e)(1)(A), (2), Jan. 2, 2013 , 126 Stat. 2192 , 2193
- § 2528a Section 2528a - Repealed. Pub. L. 110–181, div. C, title XXXI , § 3112(a), Jan. 28, 2008 , 122 Stat. 577
- § 2529 Section 2529 - Requirements for specific request for new or modified nuclear weapons
- § 2530 Section 2530 - Testing of nuclear weapons
- § 2531 Section 2531 - Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI , § 3131(d)(3), Jan. 2, 2013 , 126 Stat. 2181
- § 2532 Section 2532 - Manufacturing infrastructure for refabrication and certification of nuclear weapons stockpile
- § 2533 Section 2533 - Reports on critical difficulties at national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities
- § 2534 Section 2534 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3146(c)(8)(A), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1075
- § 2535 Section 2535 - Replacement project for Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
- § 2536 Section 2536 - Reports on lifetime extension programs
- § 2537 Section 2537 - Selected Acquisition Reports and independent cost estimates and reviews of certain programs and facilities
- § 2538 Section 2538 - Advice to President and Congress regarding safety, security, and reliability of United States nuclear weapons stockpile
- § 2538a Section 2538a - Plutonium pit production capacity
- § 2538c Section 2538c - Long-term plan for meeting national security requirements for unencumbered uranium
- § 2538b Section 2538b - Stockpile responsiveness program
- § 2538f Section 2538f - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2541 Section 2541 - Tritium production program
- § 2542 Section 2542 - Tritium recycling
- § 2543 Section 2543 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3146(c)(11)(B), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1075
- § 2544 Section 2544 - Modernization and consolidation of tritium recycling facilities
- § 2545 Section 2545 - Procedures for meeting tritium production requirements
- § 2561 Section 2561 - Repealed. Pub. L. 111–84, div. C, title XXXI , § 3117(a), Oct. 28, 2009 , 123 Stat. 2709
- § 2562 Section 2562 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3146(d)(1)(A), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1075
- § 2563 Section 2563 - Annual report on status of Nuclear Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting Program
- § 2564 Section 2564 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3146(d)(2)(A), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1075
- § 2565 Section 2565 - Authority to conduct program relating to fissile materials
- § 2566 Section 2566 - Disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at Savannah River Site
- § 2567 Section 2567 - Disposition of surplus defense plutonium at Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina
- § 2568 Section 2568 - Authority to use international nuclear materials protection and cooperation program funds outside the former Soviet Union
- § 2569 Section 2569 - Acceleration of removal or security of fissile materials, radiological materials, and related equipment at vulnerable sites worldwide
- § 2570 Section 2570 - Silk Road Initiative
- § 2571 Section 2571 - Nuclear Nonproliferation Fellowships for scientists employed by United States and Russian Federation
- § 2572 Section 2572 - International agreements on nuclear weapons data
- § 2573 Section 2573 - International agreements on information on radioactive materials
- § 2574 Section 2574 - Enhancing nuclear forensics capabilities
- § 2575 Section 2575 - Defense nuclear nonproliferation management plan
- § 2577 Section 2577 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2581 Section 2581 - Defense Environmental Cleanup Account
- § 2582 Section 2582 - Requirement to develop future use plans for defense environmental cleanup
- § 2582a Section 2582a - Future-years defense environmental cleanup plan
- § 2583 Section 2583 - Integrated fissile materials management plan
- § 2584 Section 2584 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3146(e)(5), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1076
- § 2585 Section 2585 - Accelerated schedule for defense environmental cleanup activities
- § 2586 Section 2586 - Defense environmental cleanup technology program
- § 2587 Section 2587 - Report on defense environmental cleanup expenditures
- § 2588 Section 2588 - Public participation in planning for defense environmental cleanup
- § 2589 Section 2589 - Policy of Department of Energy regarding future defense environmental management matters
- § 2591 Section 2591 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2601 Section 2601 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3146(e)(10), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1077
- § 2602 Section 2602 - Reports in connection with permanent closures of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities
- § 2603 Section 2603 - Plan for deactivation and decommissioning of nonoperational defense nuclear facilities
- § 2621 Section 2621 - Safety measures for waste tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation
- § 2622 Section 2622 - Hanford waste tank cleanup program reforms
- § 2623 Section 2623 - River Protection Project
- § 2624 Section 2624 - Funding for termination costs of River Protection Project, Richland, Washington
- § 2625 Section 2625 - Plan for tank farm waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation
- § 2626 Section 2626 - Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant contract oversight
- § 2627 Section 2627 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2631 Section 2631 - Accelerated schedule for isolating high-level nuclear waste at the Defense Waste Processing Facility, Savannah River Site
- § 2632 Section 2632 - Multi-year plan for clean-up
- § 2633 Section 2633 - Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials
- § 2637 Section 2637 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3146(e)(15), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1078
- § 2638 Section 2638 - Limitation on use of funds for decommissioning F–canyon facility
- § 2651 Section 2651 - Prohibition on international inspections of Department of Energy facilities unless protection of Restricted Data is certified
- § 2652 Section 2652 - Restrictions on access to national security laboratories by foreign visitors from sensitive countries
- § 2653 Section 2653 - Background investigations of certain personnel at Department of Energy facilities
- § 2654 Section 2654 - Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph program
- § 2655 Section 2655 - Repealed. Pub. L. 107–314, div. D, title XLV , § 4504(c), formerly Pub. L. 107–107, div. C, title XXXI , § 3152(c), Dec. 28, 2001 , 115 Stat. 1377 ; renumbered Pub. L. 107–314, div. D, title XLV , § 4504(c), and amended Pub. L. 108–136, div. C, title XXXI , § 3141(h)(5)(A), Nov. 24, 2003 , 117 Stat. 1772
- § 2656 Section 2656 - Notice to congressional committees of certain security and counterintelligence failures within atomic energy defense programs
- § 2657 Section 2657 - Annual report and certification on status of security of atomic energy defense facilities
- § 2658 Section 2658 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3132(a)(1), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1068
- § 2659 Section 2659 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114–113, div. M, title VII , § 701(f), Dec. 18, 2015 , 129 Stat. 2930
- § 2660 Section 2660 - Design and use of prototypes of nuclear weapons for intelligence purposes
- § 2662 Section 2662 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2671 Section 2671 - Review of certain documents before declassification and release
- § 2672 Section 2672 - Protection against inadvertent release of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data
- § 2673 Section 2673 - Supplement to plan for declassification of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data
- § 2674 Section 2674 - Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges
- § 2675 Section 2675 - Identification in budget materials of amounts for declassification activities and limitation on expenditures for such activities
- § 2701 Section 2701 - Authority for appointment of certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel
- § 2702 Section 2702 - Whistleblower protection program
- § 2703 Section 2703 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113–66, div. C, title XXXI , § 3146(g)(3)(A), Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 1079
- § 2704 Section 2704 - Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities workforce restructuring plan
- § 2705 Section 2705 - Authority to provide certificate of commendation to Department of Energy and contractor employees for exemplary service in stockpile stewardship and security
- § 2721 Section 2721 - Executive management training in Department of Energy
- § 2722 Section 2722 - Stockpile stewardship recruitment and training program
- § 2723 Section 2723 - Fellowship program for development of skills critical to the nuclear security enterprise
- § 2731 Section 2731 - Worker protection at nuclear weapons facilities
- § 2732 Section 2732 - Safety oversight and enforcement at defense nuclear facilities
- § 2733 Section 2733 - Program to monitor Department of Energy workers exposed to hazardous and radioactive substances
- § 2734 Section 2734 - Programs for persons who may have been exposed to radiation released from Hanford Nuclear Reservation
- § 2735 Section 2735 - Use of probabilistic risk assessment to ensure nuclear safety of facilities of the Administration and the Office of Environmental Management
- § 2736 Section 2736 - Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents
- § 2741 Section 2741 - Definitions
- § 2742 Section 2742 - Reprogramming
- § 2743 Section 2743 - Minor construction projects
- § 2743a Section 2743a - General plant projects
- § 2744 Section 2744 - Limits on construction projects
- § 2745 Section 2745 - Fund transfer authority
- § 2746 Section 2746 - Conceptual and construction design
- § 2747 Section 2747 - Authority for emergency planning, design, and construction activities
- § 2748 Section 2748 - Scope of authority to carry out plant projects
- § 2749 Section 2749 - Availability of funds
- § 2750 Section 2750 - Transfer of defense environmental cleanup funds
- § 2751 Section 2751 - Transfer of weapons activities funds
- § 2752 Section 2752 - Funds available for all national security programs of the Department of Energy
- § 2753 Section 2753 - Notification of cost overruns for certain Department of Energy projects
- § 2754 Section 2754 - Life-cycle cost estimates of certain atomic energy defense capital assets
- § 2758 Section 2758 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2761 Section 2761 - Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under environmental laws
- § 2762 Section 2762 - Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under Clean Air Act
- § 2771 Section 2771 - Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI , § 3131(u)(1), Jan. 2, 2013 , 126 Stat. 2184
- § 2772 Section 2772 - Quarterly reports on financial balances for atomic energy defense activities
- § 2773 Section 2773 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2781 Section 2781 - Costs not allowed under covered contracts
- § 2782 Section 2782 - Prohibition and report on bonuses to contractors operating defense nuclear facilities
- § 2782a Section 2782a - Assessments of emergency preparedness of defense nuclear facilities
- § 2783 Section 2783 - Contractor liability for injury or loss of property arising out of atomic weapons testing programs
- § 2784 Section 2784 - Notice-and-wait requirement applicable to certain third-party financing arrangements
- § 2785 Section 2785 - Publication of contractor performance evaluations leading to award fees
- § 2786 Section 2786 - Enhanced procurement authority to manage supply chain risk
- § 2787 Section 2787 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2791 Section 2791 - Laboratory-directed research and development programs
- § 2791a Section 2791a - Laboratory-directed research and development
- § 2791b Section 2791b - Charges to individual program, project, or activity
- § 2792 Section 2792 - Limitations on use of funds for laboratory directed research and development purposes
- § 2793 Section 2793 - Report on use of funds for certain research and development purposes
- § 2794 Section 2794 - Critical technology partnerships and cooperative research and development centers
- § 2795 Section 2795 - University-based research collaboration program
- § 2796 Section 2796 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2811 Section 2811 - Transfers of real property at certain Department of Energy facilities
- § 2812 Section 2812 - Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration by managers of certain nuclear weapons production facilities
- § 2813 Section 2813 - Pilot program relating to use of proceeds of disposal or utilization of certain Department of Energy assets
- § 2814 Section 2814 - Department of Energy energy parks program
- § 2815 Section 2815 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458
- § 2821 Section 2821 - Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. C, title XXXI , § 3131(q)(2), Jan. 2, 2013 , 126 Stat. 2183
- § 2822 Section 2822 - Payment of costs of operation and maintenance of infrastructure at Nevada National Security Site
- § 2823 Section 2823 - Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(b)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1458