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Article: Foreign Affairs Committee Approves Bipartisan Bill to Create International Nuclear Fuel Bank
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- May 23, 2007
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Lynne Weil (Lantos), +1-202-225-5021, or Sam Stratman
(Ros-Lehtinen), +1-202-226-7875
WASHINGTON, May 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The House Committee
on Foreign Affairs today approved a ground-breaking bill to support
the creation of an international nuclear fuel bank. The bank would
ensure that countries seeking the benefits of nuclear energy will not
have to develop a capacity to produce their own nuclear fuel, which
can also be used to produce nuclear weapons.
Committee members voted to support the International Nuclear Fuel
for Peace and Nonproliferation Act (H.R. 885), co-sponsored by
Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ...