22 U.S.C. § 262o–6 — Establishment of Nuclear Energy Assistance Trust Funds

(a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury must instruct the U.S. Governors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and, where the Secretary finds it appropriate, of other international financial institutions (as defined in section 262r(c)(2) of this title), to use America's voice, vote, and influence to set up a trust fund at each institution called the "Nuclear Energy Assistance Trust Fund," meeting the requirements of subsections (b) and (c). (b) Purposes The trust fund's purposes are: (1) Providing financial and technical assistance to support generating, transmitting, and distributing nuclear energy in borrowing countries. (2) Making sure the institution offers financing on competitive terms, including to counter credit offered by governments of countries that aren't members of the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits. (3) Exclusively supporting nuclear-energy technologies — including small modular reactors — that meet or exceed U.S. or OECD member-country quality and safety standards. (4) Strengthening the institution's capacity to assess, carry out, and evaluate nuclear-energy projects. (c) Use of trust fund revenues The trust fund's revenue may be used for the purposes in subsection (b), or the U.S. share may instead be sent to the Treasury's general fund, whichever the Secretary finds appropriate. (d) Rule of interpretation This section does not limit the ability of a U.S. Governor or Executive Director at an international financial institution (as defined above) to encourage using the institution's non-trust-fund resources to support generating or distributing nuclear energy.