Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-303

No person shall manufacture, construct, produce, transfer, acquire, or possess any special nuclear material, by-product material, production facility, or utilization facility wholly within this state unless he or she shall have first obtained a license or permit for the activity in which he or she proposes to engage from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission if, pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq., the commission requires a license or permit to be obtained by persons proposing to engage in activities of the same type over which it has jurisdiction.