A bill to establish requirements arising from the delay or restriction on the shipment of special nuclear materials to the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina.
Last action on May 9, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Service...
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Summary
Requires the Secretary of Energy, if the State of South Carolina acts to delay or restrict, or seeks or enforces a judgment to prohibit, the shipment of special nuclear materials (including weapons grade plutonium) to the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, for processing by the proposed mixed-oxide fuel fabrication facility at such Site, to: (1) reopen the Record of Decision on such facility to identify and evaluate alternative locations; and (2) conduct a study of the costs and implications for U.S. national security of converting the Site to an environmental management closure site and transferring all current and proposed national security activities at the Site to other facilities of the National Nuclear Security Administration of the Department of Energy.
States that if the Secretary and the State enter into an agreement regarding the shipment of special nuclear materials to the Site for processing, the requirements of this Act shall not go into effect.