The Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Innovation and Safety will hold a hearing to discuss several draft nuclear-related legislation on May 20 in Room 406 at the Senate Dirksen Office Building in Washington, D.C. at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
\The subcommittee will look at the Build Nuclear with Local Materials Act, introduced by Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on May 14. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) introduced a house companion bill. The subcommittee will hold a discussion draft of the Enrichment Licensing Modernization Act and the Revitalizing Energy Communities by Hosting Advanced Reactors and Generating Energy Act of 2026 or RECHARGE Act.
Adam Stein, director of nuclear energy innovation at Breakthrough Institute, Nick Loris, president of C3 Solutions and Patrick White, group leader for fusion, safety and regulation at the Clean AIr Task Force, will testify before the Senate subcommittee panel.
The Build Nuclear with Local Material Act would direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a rulemaking to allow commercial-grade concrete and steel to be used in non-safety-related structures of nuclear power plants.
The Enrichment Licensing Modernization Act looks to amend the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) of 1954 to align the licensing of uranium enrichment facilities with other fuel facilities under the AEA. The RECHARGE Act seeks to implement a categorical exclusion, under the National Environment Policy Act of 1969, for certain lands, such as a brownfield site and retired fossil fuel site, to be converted to advanced nuclear sites.