Nuclear Safety, Research, Demonstration, and Development Act of 1980
Nuclear Safety, Research, Demonstration, and Development Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 9701, established nuclear safety policy for nuclear power plants supplying electric energy and electricity generation within the United States. The Act authorized a five-year demonstration program simulating conditions with light water nuclear reactors for the observation of control monitoring and phases of operation for nuclear reactor cores. The U.S. Department of Energy was authorized by the Act of Congress to conduct the nuclear reactor demonstration study while establishing a reactor engineering simulator facility at a United States national laboratory. The nuclear safety demonstration program was to provide research data regarding reactor design and simplification improvements given thermal power station simulations subjecting nuclear reactors to hypothesized calamity and customary operating conditions.
The H.R. 7865 legislation was passed by the 96th U.S. Congressional session and enacted by the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter on December 22, 1980.Proclamation of the Act
Congressional Objectives
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9701Definitions
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9702Establishment of Research, Development, and Demonstration Program for Improving the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9703Nuclear Energy Safety History
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9704Federal Nuclear Operations Corps
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9705Reports and Dissemination of Information
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 970642 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9707Authorization of Appropriations
42 U.S.C. Chapter 104 § 9708
