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Whereas a uranium pellet the size of a pencil eraser contains 
the same amount of energy as 17,000 cubic feet of nat-
ural gas, 1,780 pounds of coal, or 149 gallons of oil; 
Whereas global uranium supply is vastly available and the 
United States can generate nuclear power at its current 
levels for more than a century with just the natural ura-
nium ore deposits that have already been identified; 
Whereas nuclear power plants offer a level of protection 
against natural and adversarial threats that goes far be-
yond most other elements of the electrical grid in the 
United States; 
Whereas nuclear power plants’ infrastructure and facilities 
are built to withstand extreme weather, as proven during 
recent hurricanes and freezing temperatures driven by 
polar vortex events; 
Whereas the safe operation of nuclear energy in the United 
States has resulted in no radiation-related deaths or long- 
term evacuation of surrounding communities; 
Whereas the utilization of conventional and advanced nuclear 
energy technologies will significantly reduce energy costs, 
although the initial investment burden of licensing and 
constructing any type of nuclear reactor will be substan-
tial; 
Whereas the production of nuclear energy has become a much 
safer and more efficient process with the development 
and commercialization of innovative advanced nuclear re-
actors; 
Whereas advanced nuclear reactors present uniquely innova-
tive options for the sustainable generation of clean energy 
in the United States and around the world; 
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Whereas a typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in the 
United States requires a little more than one square mile 
to operate, however an advanced nuclear reactor requires 
about 3 times less land area compared to a conventional 
nuclear power plant, depending on the reactor type and 
the specific characteristics of the community; 
Whereas the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates 31 re-
search and test reactors; 
Whereas approximately 98 universities in the United States 
offer a nuclear engineering program and several univer-
sities have expressed interest in advanced nuclear reac-
tors as a power source for their campuses; 
Whereas more than 45 companies and research organizations 
across the United States have advanced nuclear energy 
projects underway; 
Whereas many advanced nuclear reactors, in comparison to 
conventional nuclear reactors, can operate at much high-
er temperatures without water, have built-in safety fea-
tures (such as automatic shutoff mechanisms), can oper-
ate autonomously without disruption for several years at 
a time, and have a naturally enhanced resistance to nu-
clear proliferation; 
Whereas low-emission heat and steam from advanced nuclear 
reactors can supply reliable, clean energy for hard-to- 
decarbonize sectors, such as the industrial sector and 
chemical production sector; 
Whereas the total amount of spent nuclear fuel that the 
United States nuclear energy industry produced over the 
past 60 years could fit within the bounds of a football 
field at a depth of less than 10 yards; 
Whereas spent nuclear fuel can— 
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(1) be safely stored in a deep geological repository; 
(2) be repurposed and recycled using innovative 
technology; and 
(3) potentially be safely stored underground using 
techniques such as deep borehole drilling; 
Whereas certain advanced nuclear reactors have the capa-
bility to use spent nuclear fuel from another nuclear reac-
tor as a fuel source; 
Whereas recycling spent nuclear fuel could significantly re-
duce the burden of storing spent nuclear fuel, which 
would make the nuclear fuel cycle more sustainable and 
further reduce the already-low carbon footprint of nuclear 
energy; 
Whereas 96 percent of spent nuclear fuel content is reusable 
energy, and recycling spent nuclear fuel can cut the use 
of natural uranium resources by 25 percent, reduce the 
volume of high-level waste slated for disposal by 75 per-
cent, and reduce the waste’s toxicity by approximately 90 
percent; 
Whereas, by 2050, energy produced by advanced nuclear re-
actors may account for a significant amount of the clean 
energy generated in the United States, with certain esti-
mates predicting that up to 50 percent of total United 
States electricity generation could come from conven-
tional and advanced nuclear energy sources; 
Whereas the offsite component fabrication and modular man-
ufacturing process for advanced nuclear reactors will like-
ly lead to cheaper and faster installation, reduced regu-
latory burdens, and ultimately a streamlined commercial 
deployment of advanced nuclear reactors; 
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Whereas advanced nuclear reactors offer seamless integration 
to complement other renewables within microgrids, bal-
ancing out variations in generation over time to reliably 
meet United States electricity demand; 
Whereas, in the aftermath of a natural disaster when power 
outages persist, an easily transportable advanced nuclear 
reactor could provide electricity or heat for essential serv-
ices, such as hospitals and water purification facilities, 
instead of diesel generators, thereby producing a cleaner 
and more efficient source of power that can last up to 20 
years without refueling; 
Whereas nuclear medicine, including the use of medical radio-
active isotopes, can be used to diagnose and treat dif-
ferent diseases with pinpoint precision, which will ulti-
mately save American lives; 
Whereas the Armed Forces have intentions to utilize ad-
vanced nuclear reactors at United States military bases, 
both domestically and internationally, because of ad-
vanced nuclear reactor’s ability to generate clean elec-
tricity consistently and reliably in locations that experi-
ence severe weather patterns; 
Whereas the Armed Forces are currently using diesel for gen-
erators in these remote locations to provide electricity, 
such as in Alaska, which require refueling approximately 
every 72 hours; 
Whereas, since 1954, the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program 
has maintained and operated more than 100 naval nu-
clear reactors, serviced and supplied by thousands of 
American workers, to power United States aircraft car-
riers, submarines, and other vessels; 
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Whereas advanced nuclear thermal and nuclear electric pro-
pulsion provides an alternative clean energy source to 
power commercial ships to cut emissions and remove the 
costly refueling infrastructure needs for liquid-based en-
ergy carriers; 
Whereas the advantages of using advanced nuclear thermal 
and nuclear electric propulsion include long refueling in-
tervals, faster transit speeds, production of heat or cool-
ing for cargo, faster turn-around times due to elimination 
of refueling, reduced draft allowing increased cargo ca-
pacity, eliminating the need to transport huge quantities 
of engine fuel, and reducing the probability of environ-
mental damage from fuel leakages; 
Whereas nuclear thermal propulsion and nuclear electric pro-
pulsion vehicles are to be made at one-third to one-half 
the size of comparable chemical propulsion vehicles, 
which would increase travel speeds and cut costs of space 
missions; 
Whereas the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
and private companies are creating technologies that use 
advanced nuclear radioisotopes to channel heat into elec-
tricity, even in temperatures below -280 oF on the lunar 
surface, for both manned and unmanned missions to 
Earth’s satellites, the Earth’s Moon, Mars, and deep 
space; 
Whereas nuclear energy may be used to desalinate highly 
salty waters and industrial wastewater to ultimately 
produce multiuse potable water; 
Whereas nuclear energy has the potential to cleanly power 
large-scale hydrogen production facilities and utilize di-
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rect heat from the nuclear reactor to assist with the hy-
drogen production process; 
Whereas advanced nuclear reactors offer the possibility of a 
clean source of energy to power energy intrusive mining 
operations that are typically powered by diesel genera-
tors; 
Whereas advanced nuclear reactors can produce clean, con-
sistent, and reliable energy to data centers which typi-
cally require large amounts of energy; and 
Whereas the future of cryptocurrency mining, which requires 
extensive energy output, will greatly benefit from utilizing 
a noncarbon-emitting, stable, and cost-competitive nu-
clear power source: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that, in order to meet the growing energy de-
mands of the United States in a domestically favorable 
fashion and to promote American nuclear energy leader-
ship while retaining the United States economic viability 
in the worldwide nuclear energy marketplace, it is nec-
essary to expand the use of nuclear energy by— 
(1) embracing efforts to maintain the existing 
nuclear fleet and promoting efforts that seek to uti-
lize emerging innovative nuclear energy technologies, 
such as advanced nuclear reactors, to promote in-
creased energy output, improve public safety, more 
effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and al-
leviate the continuous challenge relating to storing 
spent nuclear fuel; 
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(2) recognizing nuclear energy as one of the 
cleanest power sources in regard to greenhouse gas 
emissions, while simultaneously understanding nu-
clear energy’s capability of being coupled with other 
clean energy sources, and stressing the importance 
of nuclear energy being recognized on a level regu-
latory playing field that is similar to other clean en-
ergy generating sources; 
(3) supporting initiatives by the Department of 
Defense for the deployment of nuclear reactors to 
enhance energy resiliency and electricity assurance 
for critical missions, systems, and assets in con-
tested logistical environments where fuel supplies are 
targeted or denied; 
(4) addressing critical domestic gaps in the pro-
curement of nuclear reactor construction material, 
resolving current barriers and obstacles that relate 
to a domestic supply of nuclear fuel, and other nu-
clear supply chain challenges; 
(5) encouraging sustainable domestic mining of 
uranium, in addition to increasing uranium enrich-
ment capabilities in the United States to efficiently 
secure America’s energy independence and power 
United States nuclear reactors without the need to 
rely on other countries; 
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(6) actively increasing public awareness sur-
rounding the safety of nuclear energy and continu-
ously combating false information relating to nuclear 
power, including nuclear energy’s negative connota-
tion in the United States which originates from the 
only 3 nuclear accidents in the history of the world, 
including the only event that took place in the 
United States in March of 1979 at Three Mile Is-
land Nuclear Generating Station Facility, in which 
no deaths or medical symptoms were directly tied to 
the nuclear incident; 
(7) streamlining the regulatory process, pro-
viding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission the nec-
essary resources to effectuate positive change, and 
reducing the regulatory barriers that currently de-
rive from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s cau-
tious and traditionalistic approach to the licensing 
and constructing of new nuclear reactors, which 
such regulatory approach is based on outdated tech-
nology standards dating back over 50 years when 
the agency was first established and solely focused 
on safely regulating conventional nuclear reactors, to 
ultimately bolster innovation and encourage the use 
of emerging technologies, such as advanced nuclear 
reactors, to secure America’s energy independence 
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and allow for the greater exercise of free enterprise, 
including participation by America’s small busi-
nesses that seek to get involved in the nuclear indus-
try, without reducing safety precautions; and 
(8) promoting the use of new advanced nuclear 
technologies within energy, water, medicine, manu-
facturing, space, digital assets, and other public pol-
icy areas. 
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