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to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism as much as
possible.
(5) Former United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan has said that a nuclear terror attack
‘‘would not only cause widespread death and destruc-
tion, but would stagger the world economy and thrust
tens of millions of people into dire poverty’’.
(6) United Nations Security Council Resolution
1540 (2004) reaffirms the need to combat by all
means, in accordance with the Charter of the United
Nations, threats to international peace and security
caused by terrorist acts, and directs all countries, in
accordance with their national procedures, to adopt
and enforce effective laws that prohibit any non-state
actor from manufacturing, acquiring, possessing, de-
veloping, transporting, transferring, or using nuclear,
chemical, or biological weapons and their means of
delivery, in particular for terrorist purposes, and to
prohibit attempts to engage in any of the foregoing
activities, participate in them as an accomplice, or
assist or finance them.
(7) The Director General of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei,
has said that it is a ‘‘race against time’’ to prevent
a terrorist attack using a nuclear weapon.
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(8) The International Atomic Energy Agency
plays a vital role in coordinating efforts to protect
nuclear materials and to combat nuclear smuggling.
(9) Legislation sponsored by Senator Richard
Lugar, Senator Pete Domenici, and former Senator
Sam Nunn has resulted in groundbreaking programs
to secure nuclear weapons and materials and to help
ensure that such weapons and materials do not fall
into the hands of terrorists.
SEC. 3133. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE PREVENTION OF
NUCLEAR TERRORISM.
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the President should make the prevention of
a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States of the
highest priority;
(2) the President should accelerate programs, re-
questing additional funding as appropriate, to pre-
vent nuclear terrorism, including combating nuclear
smuggling, securing and accounting for nuclear weap-
ons, and eliminating, removing, or securing and ac-
counting for formula quantities of strategic special
nuclear material wherever such quantities may be;
(3) the United States, together with the inter-
national community, should take a comprehensive ap-
proach to reducing the danger of nuclear terrorism,
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including by making additional efforts to identify
and eliminate terrorist groups that aim to acquire
nuclear weapons, to ensure that nuclear weapons
worldwide are secure and accounted for and that for-
mula quantities of strategic special nuclear material
worldwide are eliminated, removed, or secure and ac-
counted for to a degree sufficient to defeat the threat
that terrorists and criminals have shown they can
pose, and to increase the ability to find and stop ter-
rorist efforts to manufacture nuclear explosives or to
transport nuclear explosives and materials anywhere
in the world;
(4) within such a comprehensive approach, a
high priority must be placed on ensuring that all nu-
clear weapons worldwide are secure and accounted for
and that all formula quantities of strategic special
nuclear material worldwide are eliminated, removed,
or secure and accounted for; and
(5) the International Atomic Energy Agency
should be funded appropriately to fulfill its role in co-
ordinating international efforts to protect nuclear
material and to combat nuclear smuggling.
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SEC. 3134. MINIMUM SECURITY STANDARD FOR NUCLEAR
WEAPONS AND FORMULA QUANTITIES OF
STRATEGIC SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL.
(a) POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States to
work with the international community to take all possible
steps to ensure that all nuclear weapons around the world
are secure and accounted for and that all formula quan-
tities of strategic special nuclear material are eliminated,
removed, or secure and accounted for to a level sufficient
to defeat the threats posed by terrorists and criminals.
(b) INTERNATIONAL
NUCLEAR
SECURITY
STAND-
ARD.—In furtherance of the policy described in subsection
(a), and consistent with the requirement for ‘‘appropriate
effective’’ physical protection contained in United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), as well as the Nu-
clear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Convention on the
Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, the President, in
consultation with relevant Federal departments and agen-
cies, shall seek the broadest possible international agreement
on a global standard for nuclear security that—
(1) ensures that nuclear weapons and formula
quantities of strategic special nuclear material are se-
cure and accounted for to a sufficient level to defeat
the threats posed by terrorists and criminals;
(2) takes into account the limitations of equip-
ment and human performance; and
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(3) includes steps to provide confidence that the
needed measures have in fact been implemented.
(c) INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS.—In furtherance of the
policy described in subsection (a), the President, in con-
sultation with relevant Federal departments and agencies,
shall—
(1) work with other countries and the Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agency to assist as appro-
priate, and if necessary, work to convince, the govern-
ments of any and all countries in possession of nu-
clear weapons or formula quantities of strategic spe-
cial nuclear material to ensure that security is up-
graded to meet the standard described in subsection
(b) as rapidly as possible and in a manner that—
(A) accounts for the nature of the terrorist
and criminal threat in each such country; and
(B) ensures that any measures to which the
United States and any such country agree are
sustained after United States and other inter-
national assistance ends;
(2) ensure that United States financial and tech-
nical assistance is available as appropriate to coun-
tries for which the provision of such assistance would
accelerate the implementation of, or improve the effec-
tiveness of, such security upgrades; and
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(3) work with the governments of other countries
to ensure that effective nuclear security rules, accom-
panied by effective regulation and enforcement, are
put in place to govern all nuclear weapons and for-
mula quantities of strategic special nuclear material
around the world.
SEC. 3135. ANNUAL REPORT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than September 1 of each
year, the President, in consultation with relevant Federal
departments and agencies, shall submit to Congress a report
on the security of nuclear weapons, formula quantities of
strategic special nuclear material, radiological materials,
and related equipment worldwide.
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required under subsection
(a) shall include the following:
(1) A section on the programs for the security
and accounting of nuclear weapons and the elimi-
nation, removal, and security and accounting of for-
mula quantities of strategic special nuclear material
and radiological materials, established under section
3132(b) of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (50 U.S.C.
2569(b)), which shall include the following:
(A) A survey of the facilities and sites
worldwide that contain nuclear weapons or re-
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lated equipment, formula quantities of strategic
special nuclear material, or radiological mate-
rials.
(B) A list of such facilities and sites deter-
mined to be of the highest priority for security
and accounting of nuclear weapons and related
equipment, or the elimination, removal, or secu-
rity and accounting of formula quantities of
strategic special nuclear material and radio-
logical materials, taking into account risk of
theft from such facilities and sites, and organized
by level of priority.
(C) A prioritized diplomatic and technical
plan, including measurable milestones, metrics,
estimated timetables, and estimated costs of im-
plementation, on the following:
(i) The security and accounting of nu-
clear weapons and related equipment and
the elimination, removal, or security and
accounting of formula quantities of strategic
special nuclear material and radiological
materials at such facilities and sites world-
wide.
(ii) Ensuring that security upgrades
and accounting reforms implemented at
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such facilities and sites worldwide using the
financial and technical assistance of the
United States are effectively sustained after
such assistance ends.
(iii) The role that international agen-
cies and the international community have
committed to play, together with a plan for
securing contributions.
(D) An assessment of the progress made in
implementing the plan described in subpara-
graph (C), including a description of the efforts
of foreign governments to secure and account for
nuclear weapons and related equipment and to
eliminate, remove, or secure and account for for-
mula quantities of strategic special nuclear ma-
terial and radiological materials.
(2) A section on efforts to establish and imple-
ment the international nuclear security standard de-
scribed in section 3134(b) and related policies.
(c) FORM.—The report may be submitted in classified
form but shall include a detailed unclassified summary.
SEC. 3136. MODIFICATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENT.
Section 3111 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (Public Law 109–163; 119 Stat.
3539) is amended—
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(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘March 1,
2007’’ and inserting ‘‘March 1 of 2007, 2009, 2011,
and 2013’’;
(2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as
subsections (d) and (e), respectively;
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following
new subsection (c):
‘‘(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (b) to
be submitted not later than March 1 of 2009, 2011, or 2013,
shall be submitted in classified form, and shall include a
detailed unclassified summary.’’; and
(4) in subsection (e), as redesignated, by striking
‘‘(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)’’.
SEC. 3137. MODIFICATION OF SUNSET DATE OF THE OFFICE
OF THE OMBUDSMAN OF THE ENERGY EM-
PLOYEES 
OCCUPATIONAL 
ILLNESS 
COM-
PENSATION PROGRAM.
Section 3686(g) of the Energy Employees Occupa-
tional Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (42
U.S.C. 7385s–15(g)) is amended by striking ‘‘on the date
that is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this sec-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘October 28, 2012’’.
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SEC. 3138. EVALUATION OF NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY
ADMINISTRATION STRATEGIC PLAN FOR AD-
VANCED COMPUTING.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy shall—
(1) enter into an agreement with an independent
entity to conduct an evaluation of the strategic plan
for advanced computing of the National Nuclear Se-
curity Administration; and
(2) not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, submit to the congressional de-
fense committees a report containing the results of
evaluation described in paragraph (1).
(b) ELEMENTS.—The evaluation described in sub-
section (a)(1) shall include the following:
(1) An assessment of—
(A) the role of research into, and develop-
ment of, high-performance computing supported
by the National Nuclear Security Administra-
tion in maintaining the leadership of the United
States in high-performance computing; and
(B) any impact of reduced investment by
the National Nuclear Security Administration in
such research and development.
(2) An assessment of the ability of the National
Nuclear Security Administration to utilize the high-
performance computing capability of the Department