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Article: HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE APPROVES BIPARTISAN BILL TO CREATE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR FUEL BANK
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 23, 2007
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee issued the following news release:
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 (R-FL).
"Those who truly seek to develop nuclear power solely for peaceful means will jump at ...