HR 8611 United States House · 117th Congress

National Strategy to Utilize Microreactors for Natural Disaster Response Efforts Act

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 may 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.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2022
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Introduced Jul 29, 2022 Last action Aug 1, 2022
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Aug 1, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
lower
Jul 29, 2022
Committee
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.
lower
Jul 29, 2022
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1 primary · 6 co-sponsors

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