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Excerpt from The Export Reorganization Act-1975: Hearings Before the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, April 24, 30, and May 1, 1975
The main question before us today, as we begin to explore the various controls that the United States places 011 its peaceful nuclear exports, is whether all the responsible agencies have been working together to ensure that none of these exports can be converted by nations or terrorist groups into atomic weapons.
The bill which Senator Percy, Senator Glenn and I have joined In introducing, S. 1439, the Export Reorganization Act of 197 5 1 would require that all nuclear exports by the United States be made con tingent on a finding by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that safe guards against diversion, theft, and sabotage in recipient countries are substantially comparable to safeguards required by the Commis sion to obtain a commercial nuclear license III the United States.
No such test to ensure the comparability Of international safe guards to our own is being used today. In fact, the Nuclear Regula tory Commission, according to our preliminary committee inquiry, has been excluded from playing any role in a major Share of our Nation's nuclear exports, despite the fact that it Is designated by the Atomic Energy Act to regulate such exports in the interest of public health and safety, and common defense and security.
Last year, when this committee managed the Energy Reorganiza tion Act, our primary purpose in abolishing the Atomic Energy Com mission was to ensure that promotional and regulatory activities with respect to atomic energy would be clearly separated in two new agencies - the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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