SIDEBAR 1.3
Congressional Actions on HEU Use for Medical Isotope Production
U.S. congressional efforts to reduce the use of HEU for isotope production date from the early 1990s. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (the 1992 Act) required that foreign producers who received HEU from the United States cooperate in converting to LEU-based production. This section of the 1992 Act, which is sometimes referred to as the Schumer Amendment after its sponsor, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), reads, in part, as follows:
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempts certain HEU recipient countries, specifically Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, from some provisions of the Schumer Amendment. The section of the 2005 Act referred to as the Burr-Bond Amendment, after its sponsors, Representative Richard Burr (R-NC) and Senator Christopher (Kit) Bond (R-Mo), reads, in part, as follows:
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