118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 1009National Strategy to Utilize Microreactors for Natural Disaster Response Efforts Act

To require the President develop a national strategy for utilizing microreactors to assist with natural disaster response efforts, and for other purposes.

Emergency management
Introduced Feb 14, 2023
Last action Feb 24, 2023
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Armed Services · E&C · T&I
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill directs the President to develop a national strategy to utilize microreactors to assist with natural disaster response efforts. A microreactor is a nuclear reactor with at most 20 megawatts of thermal energy generating capacity. Specifically, such strategy must include an assessment of the effectiveness of utilizing diesel generators to assist with natural disaster response efforts; a comprehensive, research-based, and long-term discussion of goals, objectives, and priorities for utilizing microreactors instead of diesel generators to assist with such efforts; a Department of Defense analysis regarding the use of such microreactors to assist with such efforts; recommendations on...

Provisions · 4 sectionsIntroduced in House
Timeline · 5 actions
Feb 24, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
Feb 14, 2023
Introduced in House
Feb 14, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 14, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 14, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.