Restrictions on access to national security laboratories by foreign visitors from sensitive countries

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Title 10—ARMED FORCES > Subtitle A—General Military Law > PART VI—ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS > Subpart B—Atomic Energy Defense > CHAPTER 605—SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY MATTERS > SUBCHAPTER I—SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY

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The Secretary of Energy and the Administrator may not admit to any facility described in paragraph (3) of subsection (c) other than areas accessible to the general public any individual who is a citizen or agent of a covered foreign nation or a nation on the current sensitive countries list unless the Secretary or Administrator first completes a background review with respect to that individual.

(Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a) , (d)(2), Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1401 , 1462.)

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