Sec. 2. Nuclear Energy Research and Development
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Section 952 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 16272 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary shall carry out a program under which the Secretary shall conduct research relating to the development of advanced nuclear energy technologies that may offer improved safety, functionality, and affordability. The program under this subsection shall— support efforts to reduce long-term technical barriers for advanced nuclear energy systems; and be carried out in consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure identification of any relevant concerns.
In carrying out the program under this subsection, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with national security, make available nuclear energy research infrastructure to industry partners in order to achieve faster and cost-effective development of advanced nuclear energy technologies toward commercial readiness. The Secretary shall make available— experimental capabilities and testing facilities; computational capabilities, modeling, and simulation tools; access to existing datasets and data validation tools; and land use and site information for demonstration facilities.
The Secretary shall select industry partners for awards on a competitive merit-reviewed basis. In selecting industry partners under clause (i), the Secretary shall consider— the information disclosed by the Department as described in subparagraph (A); and any existing facilities the Department will provide for public-private partnership activities. An award made to an industry partner under this subsection shall be for a period of not more than 5 years, subject to the availability of appropriations, after which the award may be renewed, subject to a rigorous merit review.
In this subsection, the term advanced nuclear energy means energy provided by— 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 the most recent generation of fission reactors, including improvements such as— additional inherent safety features; lower waste yields; improved fuel performance; increased tolerance to loss of fuel cooling; enhanced reliability; increased proliferation resistance; increased thermal efficiency; reduced consumption of cooling water; the ability to integrate into electric applications and nonelectric applications; modular sizes to allow for deployment that corresponds with the demand for electricity; or operational flexibility to respond to changes in demand for electricity and to complement integration with intermittent renewable energy; or a fusion reactor. .
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