45 | | - | (1) Nuclear power is an emissions-free energy 8 |
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54 | | - | and Russian nuclear reactors are associated with 17 |
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55 | | - | higher safety risk than Western nuclear reactors. In 18 |
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57 | | - | clear power can extend over decades, allowing Beijing 20 |
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58 | | - | and Moscow to secure long-term influence in both ad-21 |
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60 | | - | (3) The Russian Federation is currently building 23 |
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68 | | - | when the Russian Federation launched its invasion of 3 |
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69 | | - | Ukraine in 2022, Russian state-owned nuclear oper-4 |
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70 | | - | ator Rosatom ‘‘boasted as many as 73 different 5 |
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71 | | - | projects in 29 countries. The projects were at very dif-6 |
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77 | | - | have bilateral agreements or memoranda of under-12 |
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78 | | - | standing (MoUs) with 13 countries for services or 13 |
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79 | | - | general joint development of nuclear energy.’’. 14 |
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80 | | - | (4) In its report, ‘‘International Status and 15 |
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81 | | - | Prospects for Nuclear Power 2021’’, the International 16 |
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82 | | - | Atomic Energy Agency wrote, ‘‘A total of 28 countries 17 |
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83 | | - | have expressed interest in nuclear power and are con-18 |
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84 | | - | sidering, planning or actively working to include it 19 |
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85 | | - | into their energy mix. Another 24 Member States par-20 |
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86 | | - | ticipate in the Agency’s nuclear infrastructure related 21 |
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87 | | - | activities or are involved in energy planning projects 22 |
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88 | | - | through the technical cooperation programme. Ten to 23 |
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89 | | - | twelve embarking Member States plan to operate 24 |
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94 | | - | resenting a potential increase of nearly 30% in the 1 |
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95 | | - | number of operating countries. Several embarking 2 |
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96 | | - | countries have also expressed interest in SMRs [small 3 |
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97 | | - | modular reactors] technology, in particular Estonia, 4 |
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98 | | - | Ghana, Jordan, Kenya, Poland, Saudi Arabia and 5 |
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99 | | - | Sudan, as well as expanding countries such as South 6 |
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100 | | - | Africa.’’. 7 |
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101 | | - | (5) On December 2, 2023, the United States, 8 |
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102 | | - | alongside more than 20 other countries, pledged to 9 |
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103 | | - | triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050 and support 10 |
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104 | | - | the financing of nuclear energy through the World 11 |
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105 | | - | Bank and regional development banks, so as to ‘‘en-12 |
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106 | | - | courage the inclusion of nuclear energy in their orga-13 |
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107 | | - | nizations’ energy lending policies as needed, and to 14 |
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108 | | - | actively support nuclear power when they have such 15 |
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109 | | - | a mandate’’. 16 |
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110 | | - | SEC. 3. MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK SUPPORT FOR 17 |
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111 | | - | NUCLEAR ENERGY. 18 |
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112 | | - | Title XV of the International Financial Institutions 19 |
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113 | | - | Act (22 U.S.C. 262o et seq.) is amended by adding at the 20 |
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114 | | - | end the following: 21 |
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115 | | - | ‘‘SEC. 1506. MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK SUPPORT 22 |
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116 | | - | FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY. 23 |
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123 | | - | for Reconstruction and Development, and, as the Secretary 2 |
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124 | | - | finds appropriate, any other multilateral development bank 3 |
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125 | | - | (as defined in section 1307(g)) to use the voice, vote, and 4 |
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126 | | - | influence of the United States to advocate for— 5 |
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127 | | - | ‘‘(1) the removal of prohibitions at the respective 6 |
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128 | | - | bank against financial and technical assistance for 7 |
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129 | | - | the generation and distribution of nuclear energy, to 8 |
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130 | | - | the extent that the prohibitions apply to nuclear tech-9 |
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131 | | - | nologies that meet or exceed the quality standards 10 |
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132 | | - | prevalent in the United States or a country allied 11 |
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133 | | - | with the United States; and 12 |
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134 | | - | ‘‘(2) increased internal capacity-building at the 13 |
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135 | | - | respective bank for the purpose of assessing— 14 |
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136 | | - | ‘‘(A) the potential role of nuclear energy in 15 |
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137 | | - | the energy systems of client countries; and 16 |
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138 | | - | ‘‘(B) the delivery of financial and technical 17 |
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139 | | - | assistance described in paragraph (1) to the 18 |
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140 | | - | countries.’’. 19 |
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141 | | - | SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF NUCLEAR ENERGY ASSISTANCE 20 |
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142 | | - | TRUST FUNDS. 21 |
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143 | | - | Title XV of the International Financial Institutions 22 |
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144 | | - | Act (22 U.S.C. 262o et seq.) is further amended by adding 23 |
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| 30 | + | (1) Nuclear power is an emissions-free energy 1 |
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| 31 | + | source that produces approximately 30 percent of 2 |
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| 32 | + | the world’s low-carbon electricity. In 2021, 33 coun-3 |
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| 33 | + | tries operated nuclear power plants. 4 |
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| 34 | + | (2) The People’s Republic of China and the 5 |
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| 35 | + | Russian Federation have sought to export nuclear 6 |
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| 36 | + | reactors to Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, Africa, 7 |
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| 37 | + | and South Asia. According to a 2017 study by Co-8 |
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| 38 | + | lumbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, 9 |
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| 39 | + | Chinese and Russian nuclear reactors are associated 10 |
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| 40 | + | with higher safety risk than Western nuclear reac-11 |
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| 41 | + | tors. In addition, financial and operational support 12 |
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| 42 | + | for nuclear power can extend over decades, allowing 13 |
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| 43 | + | Beijing and Moscow to secure long-term influence in 14 |
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| 44 | + | both advanced and developing economies. 15 |
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| 45 | + | (3) The Russian Federation is currently build-16 |
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| 46 | + | ing 21 reactors outside its borders, while the Peo-17 |
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| 47 | + | ple’s Republic of China is assembling more than a 18 |
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| 48 | + | third of reactors under construction globally. Ac-19 |
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| 49 | + | cording to research published in Nature Energy in 20 |
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| 50 | + | February 2023, when the Russian Federation 21 |
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| 51 | + | launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian 22 |
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| 52 | + | state-owned nuclear operator Rosatom ‘‘boasted as 23 |
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| 53 | + | many as 73 different projects in 29 countries. The 24 |
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| 54 | + | projects were at very different stages of development 25 |
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| 59 | + | tion of reactors ongoing, contracted, ordered or 2 |
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| 60 | + | planned; to involvement in tenders, invitations to 3 |
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| 61 | + | partnerships or officially published proposals. On top 4 |
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| 62 | + | of that, Russian companies have bilateral agree-5 |
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| 63 | + | ments or memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with 6 |
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| 64 | + | 13 countries for services or general joint develop-7 |
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| 65 | + | ment of nuclear energy.’’. 8 |
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| 66 | + | (4) In its report, ‘‘International Status and 9 |
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| 67 | + | Prospects for Nuclear Power 2021’’, the Inter-10 |
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| 68 | + | national Atomic Energy Agency wrote, ‘‘A total of 11 |
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| 69 | + | 28 countries have expressed interest in nuclear 12 |
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| 70 | + | power and are considering, planning or actively 13 |
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| 71 | + | working to include it into their energy mix. Another 14 |
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| 72 | + | 24 Member States participate in the Agency’s nu-15 |
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| 73 | + | clear infrastructure related activities or are involved 16 |
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| 74 | + | in energy planning projects through the technical co-17 |
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| 75 | + | operation programme. Ten to twelve embarking 18 |
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| 76 | + | Member States plan to operate NPPs [nuclear power 19 |
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| 77 | + | plants] by 2030–2035, representing a potential in-20 |
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| 78 | + | crease of nearly 30% in the number of operating 21 |
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| 79 | + | countries. Several embarking countries have also ex-22 |
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| 80 | + | pressed interest in SMRs [small modular reactors] 23 |
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| 86 | + | expanding countries such as South Africa.’’. 2 |
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| 87 | + | (5) On December 2, 2023, the United States, 3 |
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| 88 | + | alongside more than 20 other countries, pledged to 4 |
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| 89 | + | triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050 and support 5 |
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| 90 | + | the financing of nuclear energy through the World 6 |
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| 91 | + | Bank and regional development banks, so as to ‘‘en-7 |
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| 92 | + | courage the inclusion of nuclear energy in their or-8 |
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| 93 | + | ganizations’ energy lending policies as needed, and 9 |
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| 94 | + | to actively support nuclear power when they have 10 |
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| 95 | + | such a mandate’’. 11 |
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| 96 | + | SEC. 3. MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK SUPPORT 12 |
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| 97 | + | FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY. 13 |
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| 98 | + | Title XV of the International Financial Institutions 14 |
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| 99 | + | Act (22 U.S.C. 262o–262o–4) is amended by adding at 15 |
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| 100 | + | the end the following: 16 |
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| 101 | + | ‘‘SEC. 1506. MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK SUPPORT 17 |
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| 102 | + | FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY. 18 |
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| 103 | + | ‘‘The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the 19 |
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| 104 | + | United States Executive Director at the International 20 |
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| 105 | + | Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European 21 |
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| 106 | + | Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and, as the 22 |
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| 107 | + | Secretary finds appropriate, any other multilateral devel-23 |
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| 108 | + | opment bank (as defined in section 1307(g)) to use the 24 |
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| 113 | + | for— 2 |
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| 114 | + | ‘‘(1) the removal of prohibitions at the respec-3 |
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| 115 | + | tive bank against financial and technical assistance 4 |
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| 116 | + | for the generation and distribution of nuclear en-5 |
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| 117 | + | ergy; and 6 |
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| 118 | + | ‘‘(2) increased internal capacity-building at the 7 |
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| 119 | + | respective bank for the purpose of assessing— 8 |
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| 120 | + | ‘‘(A) the potential role of nuclear energy in 9 |
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| 121 | + | the energy systems of client countries; and 10 |
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| 122 | + | ‘‘(B) the delivery of financial and technical 11 |
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| 123 | + | assistance described in paragraph (1) to the 12 |
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| 124 | + | countries.’’. 13 |
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| 125 | + | SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF NUCLEAR ENERGY ASSIST-14 |
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| 126 | + | ANCE TRUST FUNDS. 15 |
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| 127 | + | Title XV of the International Financial Institutions 16 |
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| 128 | + | Act (22 U.S.C. 262o–262o–4) is further amended by add-17 |
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| 129 | + | ing at the end the following: 18 |
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| 130 | + | ‘‘SEC. 1507. ESTABLISHMENT OF NUCLEAR ENERGY ASSIST-19 |
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| 131 | + | ANCE TRUST FUNDS. 20 |
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163 | | - | URPOSES.—The purposes of such a trust fund 13 |
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164 | | - | shall be the following: 14 |
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165 | | - | ‘‘(1) To provide financial and technical assist-15 |
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166 | | - | ance to support the generation and distribution of nu-16 |
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167 | | - | clear energy in borrowing countries. 17 |
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168 | | - | ‘‘(2) To ensure that the international financial 18 |
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169 | | - | institution makes financing available on competitive 19 |
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170 | | - | terms, including for the purpose of countering credit 20 |
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171 | | - | extended by the government of a country that is not 21 |
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172 | | - | a member of the OECD Arrangement on Officially 22 |
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173 | | - | Supported Export Credits. 23 |
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179 | | - | ity standards prevalent in the United States or a 1 |
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180 | | - | country allied with the United States. 2 |
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181 | | - | ‘‘(4) To strengthen the capacity of the inter-3 |
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182 | | - | national financial institution to assess, implement, 4 |
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183 | | - | and evaluate nuclear energy projects. 5 |
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185 | | - | SE OFTRUSTFUNDREVENUES.—The revenues 6 |
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186 | | - | of such a trust fund shall be made available for activities 7 |
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187 | | - | for the purposes described in subsection (b), or the United 8 |
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188 | | - | States share of the revenues shall be remitted to the general 9 |
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189 | | - | fund of the Treasury, as the Secretary finds appropriate. 10 |
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| 148 | + | URPOSES.—The purposes of such a trust fund 7 |
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| 149 | + | shall be the following: 8 |
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| 150 | + | ‘‘(1) To provide financial and technical assist-9 |
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| 151 | + | ance to support the generation and distribution of 10 |
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| 152 | + | nuclear energy in borrowing countries. 11 |
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| 153 | + | ‘‘(2) To ensure that the international financial 12 |
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| 154 | + | institution makes financing available on competitive 13 |
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| 155 | + | terms, including for the purpose of countering credit 14 |
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| 156 | + | extended by the government of a country that is not 15 |
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| 157 | + | a member of the OECD Arrangement on Officially 16 |
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| 158 | + | Supported Export Credits. 17 |
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| 159 | + | ‘‘(3) To exclusively support the adoption of nu-18 |
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| 160 | + | clear energy technologies that meet or exceed the 19 |
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| 161 | + | quality standards prevalent in the United States or 20 |
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| 162 | + | a country allied with the United States. 21 |
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| 163 | + | ‘‘(4) To strengthen the capacity of the inter-22 |
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| 164 | + | national financial institution to assess, implement, 23 |
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| 165 | + | and evaluate nuclear energy projects. 24 |
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| 170 | + | nues of such a trust fund shall be made available for ac-2 |
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| 171 | + | tivities for the purposes described in subsection (b), or the 3 |
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| 172 | + | United States share of the revenues shall be remitted to 4 |
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| 173 | + | the general fund of the Treasury, as the Secretary finds 5 |
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| 174 | + | appropriate. 6 |
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191 | | - | ULE OFINTERPRETATION.—This section shall 11 |
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192 | | - | not be interpreted to affect the ability of the United States 12 |
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193 | | - | Governor of, or the United States Executive Director at, an 13 |
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194 | | - | international financial institution (as so defined) to en-14 |
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195 | | - | courage the provision of financial or technical assistance 15 |
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196 | | - | from non-trust fund resources of the institution to support 16 |
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197 | | - | the generation or distribution of nuclear energy.’’. 17 |
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198 | | - | SEC. 5. INCLUSION IN ANNUAL REPORT. 18 |
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199 | | - | During the 7-year period that begins with the date of 19 |
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200 | | - | enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the National Advi-20 |
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201 | | - | sory Council on International Monetary and Financial 21 |
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202 | | - | Policies shall include in the annual report required by sec-22 |
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203 | | - | tion 1701 of the International Financial Institutions Act 23 |
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204 | | - | a description of any progress made— 24 |
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213 | | - | of the activities of any such trust fund. 6 |
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| 177 | + | not be interpreted to affect the ability of the United States 8 |
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| 178 | + | Governor of, or the United States Executive Director at, 9 |
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| 179 | + | an international financial institution (as so defined) to en-10 |
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| 180 | + | courage the provision of financial or technical assistance 11 |
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| 181 | + | from non-trust fund resources of the institution to support 12 |
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| 182 | + | the generation or distribution of nuclear energy.’’. 13 |
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| 183 | + | SEC. 5. INCLUSION IN ANNUAL REPORT. 14 |
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| 184 | + | During the 7-year period that begins with the date 15 |
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| 185 | + | of enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the National 16 |
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| 186 | + | Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial 17 |
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| 187 | + | Policies shall, include in the annual report required by sec-18 |
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| 188 | + | tion 1701 of the International Financial Institutions Act 19 |
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| 189 | + | a description of any progress made— 20 |
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| 190 | + | (1) to promote multilateral development bank 21 |
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| 191 | + | (as defined in such section) assistance for nuclear 22 |
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| 197 | + | 1507 of such Act or, as the case may be, a summary 2 |
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| 198 | + | of the activities of any such trust fund. 3 |
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| 199 | + | SEC. 6. SUNSET. 4 |
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| 200 | + | This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 5 |
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