36 U.S.C. § 150902 — Purposes

This section lists four purposes for the corporation. (1) To collect, analyze, develop, and share, in the public interest, information and recommendations about (A) protection against radiation, and (B) radiation measurements, quantities, and units, especially those tied to protection against radiation. (2) To give organizations that work on the scientific and related sides of radiation protection, and of radiation quantities, units, and measurements, a way to cooperate and combine their resources, and to encourage those organizations' work. (3) To develop basic concepts about (A) radiation quantities, units, and measurements, (B) how those concepts are applied, and (C) protection against radiation. (4) To cooperate with the International Commission on Radiological Protection, the Federal Radiation Council, the International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, and other national and international organizations — government or private — that deal with radiation quantities, units, measurements, and protection against radiation.