§6123 Acceleration of depleted uranium manufacturing processes

Summary

Require the Administrator to make the nuclear security enterprise speed up modernizing how it makes depleted uranium so that by 2030 the enterprise: shows bulk cold‑hearth melting of depleted uranium alloys for war‑reserve parts, routinely makes war‑reserve depleted uranium alloy parts using net‑shape casting, if possible runs a production facility outside the current perimeter fence of the Y‑12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and has high‑purity depleted uranium ready to make war‑reserve parts. By March 31, 2023, and every year after that through 2030, the Administrator must brief the congressional defense committees on progress, the costs of the prior fiscal year’s activities, and whether the enterprise can convert depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6) to depleted uranium tetrafluoride (UF4).