S.Amdt. 774

SA 774. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title XXXI, insert the
following:

SEC. 31___. DEFINITION OF NUCLEAR FACILITY.

(a) In General.--Section 638(a)(1) of the Energy Policy Act
of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16014(a)(1)) is amended by striking
``means any nuclear facility'' and all that follows through
the period at the end and inserting the following: ``means a
nuclear fission reactor, including a prototype plant (as
defined in sections 50.2 and 52.1 of title 10, Code of
Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)), with
significant improvements compared to reactors operating on
October 19, 2016, including improvements such as--
``(A) additional inherent safety features;
``(B) lower waste yields;
``(C) improved fuel and material performance;
``(D) increased tolerance to loss of fuel cooling;
``(E) enhanced reliability or improved resilience;
``(F) increased proliferation resistance;
``(G) increased thermal efficiency;
``(H) reduced consumption of cooling water and other
environmental impacts;
``(I) the ability to integrate into electric applications
and nonelectric applications;
``(J) modular sizes to allow for deployment that
corresponds with the demand for electricity or process heat;
and
``(K) operational flexibility to respond to changes in
demand for electricity or process heat and to complement
integration with intermittent renewable energy or energy
storage.''.
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