(11) The Department of Energy’s Fusion En-
ergy Sciences Advisory Committee has been recently 
tasked with the development of a plan to dem-
onstrate the provision of fusion power to the United 
States electric grid within 35 years. Although this 
effort is to be commended, Congress finds that the 
importance of the development of fusion energy war-
rants that every effort be made to credibly accelerate 
this timeframe. 
SEC. 3. GOALS. 
It shall be the goal of the United States to dem-
onstrate electric power and hydrogen production for the 
United States energy grid utilizing a fusion energy device 
at the earliest date possible. It shall also be the goal of 
the United States to develop the scientific, engineering, 
and commercial infrastructure necessary to ensure that 
the United States is wholly competitive with other nations 
in providing fusion energy for its own needs and the needs 
of other nations. 
SEC. 4. PLAN FOR FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES PROGRAM. 
(a) DECLARATION OF POLICY.—It shall be the policy 
of the United States to conduct research, development, 
demonstration, and commercial application activities to 
provide for the scientific, engineering, and commercial in-
frastructure necessary to ensure that the United States
is competitive with other nations in providing fusion en-
ergy for its own needs and the needs of other nations, in-
cluding by demonstrating electric power or hydrogen pro-
duction for the United States energy grid utilizing fusion 
energy at the earliest date possible. 
(b) FUSION ENERGY PLAN.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Energy shall transmit to Congress a plan 
for carrying out the policy set forth in subsection 
(a), including cost estimates, proposed budgets, po-
tential international partners, and specific programs 
for implementing such policy. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS OF PLAN.—Such plan shall 
also ensure that— 
(A) existing fusion research facilities are 
more fully utilized; 
(B) fusion science, technology, theory, ad-
vanced computation, modeling, and simulation 
are strengthened; 
(C) new magnetic and inertial fusion re-
search facilities are selected based on scientific 
innovation, cost effectiveness, and their poten-
tial to advance the goal of practical fusion en-
ergy at the earliest date possible;
(D) the facilities that are selected are 
funded at a cost-effective rate; 
(E) communication of scientific results and 
methods between the fusion energy science com-
munity and the broader scientific and tech-
nology communities is improved; 
(F) inertial confinement fusion facilities 
are utilized to the extent practicable for the 
purpose of inertial fusion energy research and 
development; 
(G) attractive alternative inertial and mag-
netic fusion energy approaches are more fully 
explored; and 
(H) to the extent practical, the rec-
ommendations of the March 2004 Fusion En-
ergy Sciences Advisory Committee report on 
Workforce Planning are carried out, including 
periodic assessment of program needs. 
(3) REPORT ON FUSION MATERIALS AND TECH-
NOLOGY PROJECT.—The plan required by this sub-
section shall also address the status of, and to the 
degree possible, the costs and schedules for— 
(A) the design and implementation of 
international or national facilities for the test-
ing of fusion materials; and
(B) the design and implementation of 
international or national facilities for the test-
ing and development of key fusion technologies. 
SEC. 5. ITER. 
(a) AGREEMENT.—(1) The Secretary of Energy is 
authorized to negotiate an agreement for United States 
participation in ITER. 
(2) Any agreement for United States participation in 
ITER shall, at a minimum— 
(A) clearly define the United States financial 
contribution to construction and operating costs; 
(B) ensure that the share of ITER’s high-tech-
nology components manufactured in the United 
States is at least proportionate to the United States 
financial contribution to ITER; 
(C) ensure that the United States will not be fi-
nancially responsible for cost overruns in compo-
nents manufactured in other ITER participating 
countries; 
(D) guarantee the United States full access to 
all data generated by ITER; 
(E) enable United States researchers to propose 
and carry out an equitable share of the experiments 
at ITER;