Statement of policy regarding the Russia 123 agreement and required report

(a) Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States that any agreement entered into pursuant to section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153) should be in the national security interest of the United States and advance non-proliferation principles and the safe operation of nuclear reactors. (b) Report required Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation for Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, entered into on January 11, 2011, pursuant to section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153), as well as the manner and extent to which remaining in the agreement is beneficial to the United States national security interest and non-proliferation objectives. (c) Contents of report The report required by subsection (b) shall include assessments and detailed descriptions of— (1) the extent to which Rosatom, its subsidiaries or any agent of the Russian Federation is contributing or has contributed to the misuse of United States-origin or deemed nuclear material within Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant; (2) the extent to which Russia, through Rosatom and its subsidiaries, is using or gaining any benefit of the proceeds from sales or in-kind transfers related to Rosatom to fund Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukraine or other territory; (3) the extent to which Russia has conducted any yield-producing nuclear test in the 10-year period ending on the date of the certification; (4) the extent to which Rosatom’s transfer of nuclear materials and assistance to third countries contributes to any such third-party country’s nuclear weapons activity or illicit nuclear activity; (5) the extent to which Russia is transferring nuclear material or nuclear weapons development with a country or countries in which the International Atomic Energy Agency has an open investigation or has withdrawn from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; (6) the extent to which Russia has met its obligations under the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement; (7) the extent to which Rosatom, its subsidiaries, or any agent of the Russian federation is contributing to the People’s Republic of China’s destabilizing and dangerous nuclear weapons expansion; (8) the extent to which Rosatom or its subsidiaries is using funds received from commercial transactions to support, both financially or materially, their contribution to the nuclear weapons program of the Russian Federation; and (9) the role the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation for Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, entered into on January 11, 2011, pursuant to section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153) plays in advancing United States national security and non-proliferation objectives and any expected positive and negative impacts were the United States to withdraw from such agreement.