Domestic medical isotope production

42 U.S. Code § 2142. Domestic medical isotope production

(a) The Commission may issue a license, or grant an amendment to an existing license, for the use in the United States of highly enriched uranium as a target for medical isotope production in a nuclear reactor, only if, in addition to any other requirement of this chapter—
(1) the Commission determines that—
(A)
there is no alternative medical isotope production target that can be used in that reactor; and
(B)
the proposed recipient of the medical isotope production target has provided assurances that, whenever an alternative medical isotope production target can be used in that reactor, it will use that alternative in lieu of highly enriched uranium; and
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