Small modular reactor commercialization and industrialization competitiveness working group

(a) In general The Secretary of Energy shall establish a working group to be known as the Small Modular Reactor Commercialization and Industrialization Competitiveness Working Group (in this section referred to as the Working Group). (b) Duties The duties of the Working Group shall include the following: (1) To identify small modular reactor technologies the design for which an application has been submitted or received approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or a foreign nuclear regulator with a signed memorandum of cooperation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (2) To assess, and recommend initiatives to improve, the ability of the United States to— (A) serve as the preeminent geography to commercialize small modular reactor technologies after initial or first-of-a-kind deployment; and (B) secure and attract long-term manufacturing industrial base investment in small modular reactor fabrication. (3) To recommend policy changes that would improve the ability of the United States to host the manufacturing of small modular reactor technologies identified in paragraph (1) that are undergoing first-of-a-kind deployment outside of the United States. (4) To assess, and recommend initiatives to improve, workforce readiness in the United States to enable small modular reactor commercialization at scale. (5) To identify strategic research objectives supporting industrialization and small modular reactor fabrication cost-reduction following first-of-a-kind reactor deployment. (c) Chairperson The Secretary of Energy, or a designee of the Secretary, shall serve as the Chairperson of the Working Group. (d) Membership (1) Mandatory members The Working Group shall be composed of, at a minimum, representatives from— (A) the Department of Energy (including, as the Secretary of Energy determines appropriate, offices in such Department, such as the Office of Nuclear Energy and any National Laboratory); (B) the Department of Defense; (C) the Department of State; (D) the Department of Commerce; (E) the Department of the Interior; (F) the Department of the Treasury; and (G) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (2) Additional members The Secretary of Energy may add members to the Working Group, as the Secretary determines appropriate. (e) Annual report Not later than December 1 of each year through 2030, the Secretary of Energy shall submit a report to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate on the findings and recommendations of the Working Group.