Sec. 9. Biennial cabinet-level international conference on nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and sustainability
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The President, in coordination with international partners, as determined by the President, and industry, shall hold a biennial conference on civil nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and sustainability (referred to in this section as a conference ). It is the sense of Congress that each conference should— be a forum in which ally or partner nations may engage with each other for the purpose of reinforcing the commitment to— nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and sustainability; environmental safeguards; and local community engagement in areas in reasonable proximity to nuclear sites; and facilitate— the development of— joint commitments and goals to improve— nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and sustainability; environmental safeguards; and local community engagement in areas in reasonable proximity to nuclear sites; stronger international institutions that support nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and sustainability; cooperative financing relationships to promote competitive alternatives to Chinese and Russian financing; a standardized financing and project management framework for the construction of civil nuclear power plants; a standardized licensing framework for civil nuclear technologies; a strategy to change internal policies of multinational development banks, such as the World Bank, to support the financing of civil nuclear projects; a document containing any lessons learned from countries that have partnered with the Russian Federation or the People’s Republic of China with respect to civil nuclear power, including any detrimental outcomes resulting from that partnership; and a global civil nuclear liability regime; cooperation for enhancing the overall aspects of civil nuclear power, such as— nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and sustainability; nuclear laws (including regulations); waste management; quality management systems; technology transfer; human resources development; localization; reactor operations; nuclear liability; and decommissioning; and the development and determination of the mechanisms described in paragraphs
(7)and
(8)of section 10(a), if the President intends to establish an Advanced Reactor Coordination and Resource Center as described in that section. It is the sense of Congress that each conference should include a meeting that convenes nuclear industry leaders and leaders of government agencies with expertise relating to nuclear safety, security, safeguards, or sustainability to discuss best practices relating to— the safe and secure use, storage, and transport of nuclear and radiological materials; managing the evolving cyber threat to nuclear and radiological security; and the role that the nuclear industry should play in nuclear and radiological safety, security, and safeguards, including with respect to the safe and secure use, storage, and transport of nuclear and radiological materials, including spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste.