diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go b/pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go
index 7d0d429e997..4dad697881f 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/kubelet.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/golang/glog"
@@ -70,7 +71,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/securitycontext"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/types"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util"
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/atomic"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/bandwidth"
 	utilerrors "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/errors"
 	utilexec "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/exec"
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/pleg/generic.go b/pkg/kubelet/pleg/generic.go
index 3685be30dfb..e0340bdd106 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/pleg/generic.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/pleg/generic.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package pleg
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/golang/glog"
@@ -25,7 +26,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/metrics"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/types"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util"
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/atomic"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/sets"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/wait"
 )
diff --git a/pkg/util/atomic/value.go b/pkg/util/atomic/value.go
deleted file mode 100644
index a9bc8cd813c..00000000000
--- a/pkg/util/atomic/value.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2015 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
-
-Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-limitations under the License.
-*/
-
-package atomic
-
-import (
-	"sync"
-)
-
-// TODO(ArtfulCoder)
-// sync/atomic/Value was added in golang 1.4
-// Once support is dropped for go 1.3, this type must be deprecated in favor of sync/atomic/Value.
-// The functions are named Load/Store to match sync/atomic/Value function names.
-type Value struct {
-	value      interface{}
-	valueMutex sync.RWMutex
-}
-
-func (at *Value) Store(val interface{}) {
-	at.valueMutex.Lock()
-	defer at.valueMutex.Unlock()
-	at.value = val
-}
-
-func (at *Value) Load() interface{} {
-	at.valueMutex.RLock()
-	defer at.valueMutex.RUnlock()
-	return at.value
-}
diff --git a/pkg/util/atomic/value_test.go b/pkg/util/atomic/value_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 052b350828b..00000000000
--- a/pkg/util/atomic/value_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2014 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
-
-Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-limitations under the License.
-*/
-
-package atomic
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/wait"
-)
-
-func ExpectValue(t *testing.T, atomicValue *Value, expectedValue interface{}) {
-	actualValue := atomicValue.Load()
-	if actualValue != expectedValue {
-		t.Errorf("Expected to find %v, found %v", expectedValue, actualValue)
-	}
-	ch := make(chan interface{})
-	go func() {
-		ch <- atomicValue.Load()
-	}()
-	select {
-	case actualValue = <-ch:
-		if actualValue != expectedValue {
-			t.Errorf("Expected to find %v, found %v", expectedValue, actualValue)
-			return
-		}
-	case <-time.After(wait.ForeverTestTimeout):
-		t.Error("Value could not be read")
-		return
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAtomicValue(t *testing.T) {
-	atomicValue := &Value{}
-	ExpectValue(t, atomicValue, nil)
-	atomicValue.Store(10)
-	ExpectValue(t, atomicValue, 10)
-}