[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2873]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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