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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1737 

To prohibit entities that provide nuclear fuel assemblies to Iran from 

providing such assemblies to the United States, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 20, 2005 

Mr. SANTORUM introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

A BILL 

To prohibit entities that provide nuclear fuel assemblies to 

Iran from providing such assemblies to the United 

States, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Iranian Nuclear Trade 

5 Prohibition Act of 2005’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress makes the following findings: 

8 (1) Iran has pursued a nuclear program with 

9 assistance from foreign entities and foreign govern10 ments. 
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1 (2) It is important that Iran not seek to de2 velop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian 

3 nuclear power program. 

4 (3) The Government of Iran has asserted that 

5 its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, how6 ever, that Government has supported terrorist orga7 nizations and uses harsh rhetoric towards allies of 

8 the United States in the Middle East, and the 

9 United States has expressed great concern with 

10 Iran’s nuclear ambitions and has worked with 

11 United States allies to end Iran’s nuclear program. 

12 (4) In October 2003, the Government of Iran 

13 promised it would suspend uranium enrichment ac14 tivities, but broke that promise less than a year 

15 later. 

16 (5) In November 2004, the Government of 

17 Iran, in concert with talks with representatives of 

18 the Governments of Britain, France, and Germany 

19 (the ‘‘EU–3’’) agreed to suspend all uranium enrich20 ment and reprocessing activities related to Iran’s nu21 clear program under the terms of the agreement 

22 made between the Islamic Republic of Iran and 

23 France, Germany and the United Kingdom, with the 

24 support of the High Representative of the European 

25 Union (the ‘‘Paris Agreement’’). 
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1 (6) The EU–3 agreed to support the United 

2 States in taking Iran’s nuclear program to the 

3 United Nations Security Council if Iran resumed its 

4 nuclear activities. 

5 (7) In concert with the Paris Agreement, the 

6 President announced that the United States will 

7 drop its opposition to Iran’s application to join the 

8 World Trade Organization and permit, on a case-by9 case basis, the licensing of spare parts for Iranian 

10 commercial aircraft. 

11 (8) Iran’s uranium enrichment program is like12 ly to be dispersed throughout the country, protected 

13 in hardened infrastructure, and highly mobile. 

14 (9) The Parliament of Iran passed a non15 binding resolution insisting that the Government of 

16 Iran resume developing nuclear fuel. 

17 (10) That resolution stated that Iran should de18 velop enough nuclear fuel to generate 20,000 

19 megawatts of electricity. 

20 (11) In February 2005, the Atomic Energy 

21 Agency of Russia announced that Russia would ship 

22 nuclear fuel to Iran’s Busheher nuclear reactor. 

23 (12) Russia pledged to provide fuel to this facil24 ity for 10 years and, under the commitment, Iran 
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1 has pledged to return spent fuel to Russia for stor2 age. 

3 (13) Russia remains the only major nuclear fuel 

4 market closed to outside competition and 100 per5 cent of Russia’s nuclear fuel industry is owned by 

6 the Government of Russia. 

7 (14) Iran is the fourth-largest oil producer in 

8 the world. 

9 (15) Iran has a wealth of natural gas and crude 

10 oil reserves and it is estimated that Iran plans to in11 vest $104,000,000,000 by 2015 in natural gas pro12 duction and that Iran plans to increase crude oil 

13 production to 7,000,000 barrels a day by 2020. 

14 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON TRADE RELATIONS WITH 

15 STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM. 

16 It is the sense of Congress that the countries of the 

17 world should choose between trading with state sponsors 

18 of terrorism or maintaining good trade relations with the 

19 United States. 

20 SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF ENTRY OF NUCLEAR FUEL ASSEM21 BLIES. 

22 The Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 

23 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by inserting after section 

24 10 the following new section: 
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1 ‘‘SEC. 10A. PROHIBITION OF ENTRY TO NUCLEAR FUEL AS2 SEMBLIES TO THE UNITED STATES. 

3 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), the 

4 President shall prohibit the United States, or any entity 

5 of the United States, from purchasing nuclear fuel assem6 blies from any person or government entity, or any entity 

7 affiliated with such person or entity, that sells nuclear fuel 

8 assemblies to Iran. 

9 ‘‘(b) WAIVER.—The President may waive the prohibi10 tion in subsection (a) if the President— 

11 ‘‘(1) determines that the waiver is in the na12 tional security interest of the United States; and 

13 ‘‘(2) at least 7 days before the waiver takes ef14 fect, notifies the required congressional committees 

15 of the President’s intention to exercise the waiver. 

16 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

17 ‘‘(1) NUCLEAR FUEL ASSEMBLIES.—The term 

18 ‘nuclear fuel assemblies’ does not include low-en19 riched uranium (LEU). For the purpose of the pre20 ceding sentence the term ‘low-enriched uranium’ 

21 means a product produced using blended down 

22 weapons-grade and highly-enriched uranium (HEU) 

23 that is provided by the Russian entity 

24 Techsnabexport (also known as TENEX) in co25 operation with the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, a 

26 subsidiary of USEC, Inc. 
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1 ‘‘(2) REQUIRED CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT2 TEES.—The term ‘required congressional commit3 tees’ means the Committee on Armed Services, the 

4 Committee on Finance, and the Committee on For5 eign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on 

6 Armed Services, the Committee on International Re7 lations, and the Committee on Ways and Means of 

8 the House of Representatives.’’. 

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