Sec. 3133. REPORT ON THE USE OF HIGHLY-ENRICHED URANIUM FOR NAVAL REACTORS

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## SEC. 3133 REPORT ON THE USE OF HIGHLY-ENRICHED URANIUM FOR NAVAL REACTORS ###

(a)Report Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Secretary of State, shall, in accordance with the protection of sources and methods, submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes the following: ####

(1)An assessment on the current and anticipated intentions of countries producing or using highly-enriched uranium in naval reactors or considering the development of naval reactors. ####

(2)An evaluation of the security measures each country producing or using highly-enriched uranium in naval reactors has in place. ####

(3)An evaluation of the potential effects on nuclear nonproliferation efforts and the naval reactor programs and related actions of other countries if the United States pursued the development of an advanced low-enriched uranium fuel for certain United States naval reactors as described in the report of the Director of Naval Reactors to Congress, dated July 2016 and entitled “Conceptual Research and Development Plan for Low-Enriched Uranium Naval Fuel”. ####

(4)Such other information or updates as the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Secretary of State consider appropriate. ###

(b)Form The report required by subsection

(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. ###

(c)Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— ####

(1)the congressional defense committees; ####

(2)the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and ####

(3)the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.