§10203 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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The United States must work with and give technical help to non-nuclear weapon states on storing and getting rid of spent nuclear fuel. Within 90 days of January 7, 1983, the Secretary and the Commission must publish a joint notice in the Federal Register saying the U.S. is ready to help with at-reactor and away-from-reactor storage, monitored retrievable storage, geologic disposal, and the health, safety, and environmental rules for those activities. The notice must list available resources, like research data, expert consultations, and links with private companies. The notice must be updated each year for five years. After each annual notice, the Secretary of State must tell foreign governments (and, when practical, their nuclear plant operators) about the offer, ask if they want help, and send any interest to the Department and the Commission. The President must include budget requests for expanded help for fiscal years 1984–1989 as needed. The term “non-nuclear weapon state” means the same as in Article IX of the Non‑Proliferation Treaty (21 U.S.C. 438). Nothing here lets the Department or the Commission do anything beyond what current law allows.

Title 42, §10203

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(a)It shall be the policy of the United States to cooperate with and provide technical assistance to non-nuclear weapon states in the field of spent fuel storage and disposal.

(b)(1)Within 90 days of January 7, 1983, the Secretary and the Commission shall publish a joint notice in the Federal Register stating that the United States is prepared to cooperate with and provide technical assistance to non-nuclear weapon states in the fields of at-reactor spent fuel storage; away-from-reactor spent fuel storage; monitored, retrievable spent fuel storage; geologic disposal of spent fuel; and the health, safety, and environmental regulation of such activities. The notice shall summarize the resources that can be made available for international cooperation and assistance in these fields through existing programs of the Department and the Commission, including the availability of: (i) data from past or ongoing research and development projects; (ii) consultations with expert Department or Commission personnel or contractors; and (iii) liaison with private business entities and organizations working in these fields.

(2)The joint notice described in the preceding subparagraph shall be updated and reissued annually for 5 succeeding years.

(c)Following publication of the annual joint notice referred to in paragraph (2),11 So in original. Probably should be “paragraph (2) of subsection (b),”. the Secretary of State shall inform the governments of non-nuclear weapon states and, as feasible, the organizations operating nuclear powerplants in such states, that the United States is prepared to cooperate with and provide technical assistance to non-nuclear weapon states in the fields of spent fuel storage and disposal, as set forth in the joint notice. The Secretary of State shall also solicit expressions of interest from non-nuclear weapon state governments and non-nuclear weapon state nuclear power reactor operators concerning their participation in expanded United States cooperation and technical assistance programs in these fields. The Secretary of State shall transmit any such expressions of interest to the Department and the Commission.

(d)With his budget presentation materials for the Department and the Commission for fiscal years 1984 through 1989, the President shall include funding requests for an expanded program of cooperation and technical assistance with non-nuclear weapon states in the fields of spent fuel storage and disposal as appropriate in light of expressions of interest in such cooperation and assistance on the part of non-nuclear weapon state governments and non-nuclear weapon state nuclear power reactor operators.

(e)For the purposes of this subsection,22 So in original. Probably should be “section”. the term “non-nuclear weapon state” shall have the same meaning as that set forth in article IX of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (21 U.S.C.33 So in original. Probably should be “UST”. 438).

(f)Nothing in this subsection 2 shall authorize the Department or the Commission to take any action not authorized under existing law.

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The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, referred to in subsec. (e), is set out in 21 UST 483; TIAS 6839.

§10203 Technical Assistance to Non-nuclear Weapon States in Field of Spent Fuel Storage and Disposal

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