EXCERPTS FROM THE ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF 1954, AS AMENDED:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00236R000100050002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 14, 1982
• Content Type: REGULATION

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RESTRICTED DATA The term Restricted Data means all data concerning
(1) design, manufacture, or utilization of atomic
weapons; (2) the production of special nuclear
material; or (3) the use of special nuclear material
in the production of energy, but shall not include
data declassified or removed from the Restricted
Data category pursuant to section 142.
ATOMIC WEAPON The term Atomic. Weapon means any device utilizing
atomic energy, exclusive of the means for transporting
or propelling the device (where such means is a
separable and divisible part of the device), the
principal purpose of which is for use as, or for
development of, a weapon, weapon prototype or a
weapon test device.
SPECIAL NUCLEAR The term Special Nuclear Material means (1)
MATERIAL plutonium, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or
in the isotope 235, and any other material which
the Commission, pursuant to the provisions of
Section 51, determines to be special nuclear
material, but does not include source material; or
(2) any material artificially enriched by any of
the foregoing, but does not include source material`.
SOURCE MATERIAL The term Source Material means (1) uranium, thorium,
or any other material which is determined by the
Commission pursuant to the provisions of Section 61
to be source material; or (2) ores containing one
or more of the foregoing materials, in such concen-
tration as the Commission may by regulation determine
from time to time.
ATOMIC ENERGY The term Atomic Energy means all forms of Energy
released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear
transformation.
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"CHAPTER 12. CONTROL OF INFORMATION
"SEC. 141. POLICY. t shall policy of the m- _rv .
mission to control the dissemination and declassification
the Commission shall be guided by the following
principles :
"a. until effective and enforceable international safe-
guards against the use of atomic energy for destructive
purposes have been established by an international ar-
rangement, there shall be no exchange of Restricted
Data with other nations except as authorized by section
144; and
"b. The dissemination of scientific and technical infor-
mation relating to atomic energy should be permitted and
encouraged so as to provide that free interchange of ideas
and criticism which is essential to scientific and industrial
progress and public understanding and to enlarge the
fund of technical information..
"SEC. 142. CLASSIFICATION AND DECLASSIFICATION OF Claasffcatton
RESTRICTED DATA.- and dectass19.
cation of re-
"a. The Commission shall from time to time determine itrlcted data.
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