[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 146 (Monday, September 8, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S6413]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3807. Mr. MARKEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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 end of subtitle B of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3119. LIMITATION ON TRANSFER OF WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM 
                   TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY.

       (a) Limitation.--None of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for 
     fiscal year 2026 for the Departments of Defense or the 
     Department of Energy may be used for the transfer of 
     plutonium to private industry.
       (b) Report.--The surplus plutonium dilute and dispose 
     program may not be terminated, until the Secretary of Defense 
     and the Secretary of Energy jointly submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report that includes the 
     following:
       (1) An explanation of how the Trump administration plans to 
     discourage countries of proliferation concern from extracting 
     weapons-usable plutonium from civilian fuel if the United 
     States engages in such extraction.
       (2) A justification as to why the Federal Government would 
     facilitate the development and export of proliferation-prone 
     reprocessing technologies by private companies, given the 
     proliferation risks of plutonium.
       (3) A justification as to why the Federal Government would 
     promote a technology that would make nuclear energy of the 
     United States less economically competitive, given that 
     plutonium processing is very costly, due to safety and 
     security concerns, both to extract from nuclear waste and to 
     fabricate into fuel, which increases the cost of reactor fuel 
     by 10 times or more.
       (4) A full accounting of any weapons plutonium parts that 
     will be disassembled or transferred, including how much of 
     the plutonium to be transferred to private industry will come 
     from intact pits, the types of pits to be used, and what the 
     impact of such transfer would be on plans to produce new pits 
     at Los Alamos National Laboratory or to reuse pits in the 
     future.
       (c) Form.--The report required by subsection (b) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
     annex.
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