A bipartisan bill that will advance the development of nuclear energy power plants in the nation was passed by the United States Senate on Tuesday.
“Today, we sent the ADVANCE Act to the president’s desk because Congress worked together to recognize the importance of nuclear energy to America’s future and got the job done,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said in the press release.
American Nuclear Energy Leadership would also be facilitated under the bill, by “empowering” the NRC to “read in international forums to develop regulations for advanced nuclear reactors.”“It generates power through fission, which is the process of splitting uranium atoms to produce energy,” the DOE wrote on its website. “The heat release by fission is used to create steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity without the harmful byproducts emitted by fossil fuels.