HR 1009
118th Congress
House
Emergency Management
National Strategy to Utilize Microreactors for Natural Disaster Response Efforts Act
Introduced: February 14, 2023
Introduced by:
Donalds, Byron
Republican
· Florida
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Became law
Feb 24, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
Feb 14, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 14, 2023
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
National Strategy to Utilize Microreactors for Natural Disaster Response Efforts Act
This bill directs the President to develop a national strategy to utilize microreactors to assist with natural disaster response efforts. A microreactor is a nuclear reactor with at most 20 megawatts of thermal energy generating capacity.
Specifically, such strategy must include
- an assessment of the effectiveness of utilizing diesel generators to assist with natural disaster response efforts;
- a comprehensive, research-based, and long-term discussion of goals, objectives, and priorities for utilizing microreactors instead of diesel generators to assist with such efforts;
- a Department of Defense analysis regarding the use of such microreactors to assist with such efforts;
- recommendations on how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can work with other federal agencies to expedite the approval of designs for microreactors and issuing licenses;
- an assessment of the challenges and barriers to deploying microreactors to assist with such efforts and solutions; and
- recommendations on how to utilize microreactors as charging stations for electric vehicles in the event of a mass evacuation resulting from a natural disaster.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
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