Nuclear energy

Nuclear Power Emergency Response Data System Act of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1986

Nuclear Power Emergency Response Data System Act of 1986 - Establishes the Emergency Response Program within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide the Commission with a single data transmission system which will furnish the data needed for the Commission's emergency response functions. Requires that such system include automatic electronic data transmission for use in an emergency at a commercial nuclear power reactor. Requires the operator of certain licensed commercial nuclear reactors, upon declaration of emergency, to transmit data by automatic electronic means to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Operations Center. Requires the Commission to pay all costs associated with such data transmission functions. Establishes the Emergency Response Data System Fund to compensate the Commission for the operation and installation costs of such data transmission system at commercial nuclear power reactor sites. Requires commercial nuclear power licensees to contribute to such fund the amount determined by the Commission to be attributable to the operation and installation costs of such data transmission system at the licensee's facility.

A bill to remove the Hanford Reservation in the State of Washington from consideration as a repository for high-level radioactive waste produced by commercial nuclear power plants.

United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986

Proscribes any authorization or expenditure of funds for nuclear waste repository site characterization activities at the Hanford Reservation in the State of Washington.

A. David Rossin, of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy), vice Shelby Templeton Brewer, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 7 May 1986

A resolution to establish an international emergency response team to deal with accidents in nuclear power facilities and to provide for international inspection to assure their safe operation.

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986

Declares that the House of Representatives urges: (1) the Soviet Union to share with the international scientific community information about the Chernobyl accident and to open the nuclear site for international inspection; (2) the establishment of an international emergency alert system; (3) the International Atomic Energy Agency to establish safety standards for nuclear power plants; and (4) the United States and other member nations of the Agency to implement standards by directing the Agency to establish an international emergency response force. Encourages the formation of an international commission to examine the causes of the Chernobyl accident.

A resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that multilateral negotiations should begin to strengthen the safety standards of the world's nuclear power plants.

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1986

Declares that the House of Representatives calls upon the President to open multilateral negotiations aimed at opening all nuclear power reactors of the world for safety inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.