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(B) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
shall submit to Congress a report providing an 
assessment of— 
(i) the most recent schedule for ITER 
that has been approved by the ITER 
Council; and 
(ii) progress of the ITER Council and 
the ITER Director-General toward imple-
mentation of the recommendations of the 
Third Biennial International Organization 
Management Assessment Report. 
(C) FAIRNESS IN COMPETITION FOR SO-
LICITATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL PROJECT AC-
TIVITIES.—Section 33 of the Atomic Energy 
Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2053) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ‘‘For purposes 
of this section, with respect to international re-
search projects, the term ‘private facilities or 
laboratories’ shall refer to facilities or labora-
tories located in the United States.’’. 
(D) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense 
of Congress that the United States should sup-
port a robust, diverse program in addition to 
meeting its commitments to ITER. It is further 
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the sense of Congress that developing the sci-
entific basis for fusion, providing research re-
sults key to the success of ITER, and training 
the next generation of fusion scientists are of 
critical importance to the United States and 
should in no way be diminished by participation 
of the United States in the ITER project. 
(c) INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY RESEARCH AND DE-
VELOPMENT PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall carry out a 
program of research and technology development in iner-
tial fusion for energy applications, including ion beam, 
laser, and pulsed power fusion systems. 
(d) ALTERNATIVE AND ENABLING CONCEPTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—As part of the program de-
scribed in subsection (a), the Director shall support 
research and development activities and facility oper-
ations at United States universities, national labora-
tories, and private facilities for a portfolio of alter-
native and enabling fusion energy concepts that may 
provide solutions to significant challenges to the es-
tablishment of a commercial magnetic fusion power 
plant, prioritized based on the ability of the United 
States to play a leadership role in the international 
fusion research community. Fusion energy concepts 
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and activities explored under this paragraph may in-
clude— 
(A) high magnetic field approaches facili-
tated by high temperature superconductors; 
(B) advanced stellarator concepts; 
(C) non-tokamak confinement configura-
tions operating at low magnetic fields; 
(D) magnetized target fusion energy con-
cepts; 
(E) liquid metals to address issues associ-
ated with fusion plasma interactions with the 
inner wall of the encasing device; 
(F) immersion blankets for heat manage-
ment and fuel breeding; 
(G) advanced scientific computing activi-
ties: and 
(H) other promising fusion energy con-
cepts identified by the Director. 
(2) COORDINATION WITH ARPA–E.—The Under 
Secretary and the Director shall coordinate with the 
Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency– 
Energy (in this paragraph referred to as ‘‘ARPA– 
E’’) to— 
(A) assess the potential for any fusion en-
ergy project supported by ARPA–E to rep-
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resent a promising approach to a commercially 
viable fusion power plant; 
(B) determine whether the results of any 
fusion energy project supported by ARPA–E 
merit the support of follow-on research activi-
ties carried out by the Office of Science; and 
(C) avoid unintentional duplication of ac-
tivities. 
(e) FUSION MATERIALS RESEARCH AND DEVELOP-
MENT.—As part of the activities authorized in section 978 
of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16318), the 
Director, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary for 
Nuclear Energy of the Department, shall carry out re-
search and development activities to identify, characterize, 
and create materials that can endure the neutron, plasma, 
and heat fluxes expected in a commercial fusion power 
plant. As part of the activities authorized under subsection 
(g), the Secretary shall— 
(1) provide an assessment of the need for a fa-
cility or facilities that can examine and test potential 
fusion and next generation fission reactor materials 
and other enabling technologies relevant to the de-
velopment of commercial fusion power plants; and 
(2) provide an assessment of whether a single 
new facility that substantially addresses magnetic 
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