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 106 STAT. 2648 PUBLIC LAW 102-484—OCT. 23, 1992 Site, Nevada; the Pinnellas Plant, Florida; and the Pantex facility, Texas); (D) an atomic weapons research facility that is under the control or jurisdiction of the Secreta^ (including the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories); or (E) any facility described in paragraphs (1) through (4) thal^ (i) is no longer in operation; (ii) was under the control or jurisdiction of the Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, or the Energy Research and Development Administration; and (iii) was operated for national security purposes. (2) The term 'department of Energy employee" means any employee of the Department of Energy employed at a Department of Energy defense nuclear facility, including any employee of a contractor or subcontractor of the Department of Energy employed at such a facility. TITLE XXXII—NUCLEAR SAFETY SEC. 3201. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEFENSE NUCLEAR SAFETY BOARD. There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1993, $13,000,000 for the operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board under chapter 21 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2286 et seq.). SEC. 3202. NUCLEAR SAFETY IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— (1) the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident on April 26, 1986, has resulted in $283 to $352 billion worth of damage, with more than 4,000,00 people still living on land contaminated with radiation; (2) there are 16 Chernobyl-type RBMK reactors now operating in Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania, all of which have faulty designs, poor construction, and dangerously lax and outdated operating procedures; (3) there are dozens of Soviet-designed reactors now operating in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union with poor construction and lax and outdated operating procedures; (4) a serious nuclear reactor accident in one of the newly freed states of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union would seriously exacerbate these states' difficult progress towards economic recovery and could lead to political instability; (5) retrofitting the KBMK reactors with modern Western safety equipment will result in only marginal safety improvements at great expense; and (6) alternative power sources, such as natural gas turbines, and modern enei^ efficiency measures and technologies could displace the neeofor much of the power which these reactors provide. (b) UNITED STATES POLICY. —I t is the sense of Congress that the President should undertake bilateral and multilateral initiatives, including trade initiatives, to—

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