HR 903 · 99th Congress · Energy
Nuclear Explosives Control Act of 1985
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Introduced2
Committee3
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Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.(1985-02-07)
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Nuclear Explosives Control Act of 1985 - Amends the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 to prohibit the export of any major critical component for, and of any sensitive nuclear technology important to, the enrichment of uranium or other isotopic separation of special nuclear material, nuclear fuel reprocessing, or heavy water production, except under certain international cooperation agreements. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to approve, under an international agreement, the reprocessing, or the use or retransfer of any plutonium resulting from such reprocessing, of any special nuclear material exported from the United States or produced through the use of U.S. exported equipment, materials, or technology, only if: (1) the end use of the reprocessed or retransferred material involves research, development, or demonstration in a facility that is currently operating or that is under construction and is located in a nuclear weapon state or a state which abides by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards; (2) there are no already existing stocks of separated plutonium reasonably available for the end use requested; (3) in the cas…
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19 Democrats1 Republican