Sec. 311.
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The Trusted Source Requirement for LEU used in Covered Domestic Reactors shall be: in calendar year 2025, 50%; in calendar year 2026, 55%; in calendar year 2027, 60%; in calendar year 2028, 65%; in calendar year 2029, 70%; in calendar year 2030, 75%; in calendar year 2031, 80%; in calendar year 2032, 85%; in calendar year 2032 and thereafter, 85%. The Secretary may take action that the Secretary deems necessary or appropriate to administer, implement or enforce the Trusted Source Requirement.
The Secretary may require any person to provide any certifications, reports, or other information necessary or appropriate to demonstrate compliance with the Trusted Source Requirement. The Secretary shall promulgate, no later than twelve months after the enactment of this section, a final regulation to implement this section. In promulgating the final rule, the Secretary shall consider the need for: Mechanisms to allocate the effects of the Trusted Source Requirement equitably among reactor licensees;
Differentiation among various reactor types; Differentiation among LEU enriched up to 10 percent of the uranium-235 isotope and LEU enriched above10 percent of the uranium-235 isotope; and Provisions to prevent transactions designed to evade the purpose of this section. In this section: Allied Country means any nation with which the United States is engaged in a common military effort or with which the United States has entered into a common defensive military alliance. Covered Domestic Reactor means a nuclear reactor licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for industrial or commercial purposes.
LEU means uranium enriched to less than 20 percent of the uranium-235 isotope, including that which is derived from highly enriched uranium. Secretary means the Secretary of Energy. Trusted Source Requirement means the percentage of conversion and enrichment that must occur within the United States or an Allied Country. In administering, implementing or enforcing the Trusted Source Requirement, the Department shall only use existing statutory authorities. That the Secretary of Energy may use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for a commitment under this section for a commitment only if the full extent of the anticipated costs stemming from that commitment is recorded as an obligation at the time that the commitment is made and only to the extent that up-front obligation is recorded in full at that time.