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H. C. R. No. 43 As IntroducedAs Introduced
| 130th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2013-2014 |
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Representatives Boose, Thompson
Cosponsors:
Representatives Amstutz, Beck, Blessing, Brenner, Buchy, Grossman, Lynch, Romanchuk, Ruhl, Sheehy, Stebelton, Young
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION | To establish a sustainable energy-abundance plan for
Ohio to meet future Ohio energy needs with
affordable, abundant, and environmentally friendly
energy.
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE SENATE CONCURRING):
| WHEREAS, Ohio has many natural energy resources that are
finite; and |
| WHEREAS, World energy usage is expected to increase; and |
| WHEREAS, Solar and wind energy technologies are not expected
to provide future and abundant base-load power or peaking
energy-on-demand power affordably; and |
| WHEREAS, Extending Ohio's current energy boom will rest in
creating a long-term energy plan and developing clean and
affordable energy technologies such as liquid fluoride thorium
reactors, molten salt reactors, and small modular reactors; and |
| WHEREAS, America possesses a nearly inexhaustible supply of
thorium and uranium (more than a billion years) that dramatically
exceeds all known potential energy reserves including those of
renewable energy; and |
| WHEREAS, The elements thorium and uranium have the practical
potential to provide unlimited energy resources for Ohioans and
Americans on demand in the near future and to provide many other
tangible benefits; and |
| WHEREAS, Better utilization of thorium and uranium in
specially designed reactors such as molten salt reactors and
liquid fluoride thorium reactors can provide energy security from
other nations by utilizing Ohio coal and a reactor's nuclear heat
to produce an abundance of synthetic transportation fuels. These
synthetic fuels can be produced for many future generations of
Ohioans in a safe, affordable, and in a most environmentally
friendly manner; and |
| WHEREAS, The efficient use of thorium or uranium in a
specially designed molten salt reactor allows for greatly
increased environmentally friendly energy production that improves
the economics of many recycling technologies and raises the
standard of living; and |
| WHEREAS, It is incumbent upon Ohio legislators to be
forward-thinking in addressing the future energy challenges for
the next generation of Ohioans; and |
| WHEREAS, Ohio is uniquely capable to commercialize small
modular reactors, liquid fluoride thorium reactors, and integral
fast reactors with its research and development assets of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Plum Brook
(Sandusky, Ohio), the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration John H. Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio),
the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Dayton, Ohio), USEC's
uranium-enrichment facility (Piketon, Ohio), The Ohio State
University's nuclear-research-and-development facilities
(Columbus, Ohio), and other private companies and nonprofit
organizations that specialize in nuclear-technology development in
Ohio; and |
| WHEREAS, The academic, scientific, manufacturing, and
business communities in Ohio have some of the best talent and
research and development records in the world. Development of this
groundbreaking and economic game-changing technology would serve
Ohio's and America's economy better than current federal efforts
to develop this technology in partnership with China; and |
| WHEREAS, Advanced technology using thorium and uranium can
affordably provide medical isotopes of materials for medical uses
such as treating cancer and HIV/AIDS, diagnostic procedures, and
improved health care; and |
| WHEREAS, S.99, the "American Medical Isotopes Production Act
of 2011," was signed into law by President Barack Obama on January
2, 2013, and seeks to ensure a reliable domestic supply of
molybdenum-99; and |
| WHEREAS, Molybdenum-99 is used in some sixteen million
medical procedures annually in the United States; and |
| WHEREAS, No domestic supply of molybdenum-99 currently
exists, and present suppliers use old reactors that result in
frequent supply disruptions; and |
| WHEREAS, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, charged with
licensing nuclear reactors, is not well-funded for establishing
procedures for new, advanced reactor designs based on different
architectures from today's fleet of light water reactors; and |
| WHEREAS, Small modular reactors and liquid fluoride thorium
reactors represent a business opportunity that Ohio's
manufacturing base is well-suited to exploit. This could
potentially result in creating forty thousand manufacturing jobs
in total within Ohio, because these jobs have the ability to
complement Ohio's coal industry, oil industry, and natural gas
hydraulic fracturing industry; now therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 130th General Assembly
of the State of Ohio, make the following recommendation for
solutions to energy and medical-isotopes production; and be it
further |
| RESOLVED, That the State of Ohio shall create a long-term
energy plan that addresses the long-term energy needs of the
country; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the State of Ohio shall encourage the research
and development of liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors and
small-modular-reactors technologies as a long-term solution to
Ohio's energy needs; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the State of Ohio shall ask of the federal
government, the Department of Energy, and the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission to establish a method for fast-track licensing of
liquid fluoride thorium reactors to be built and operated in the
United States by private industry for production of medical
isotopes and energy; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the State of Ohio shall invest in, seek to
acquire grants for, implement programs for, encourage its
institutions of higher learning to conduct research into, and
attract companies for the development of future technologies that
will provide greater energy resources more affordably, abundantly,
and in a more environmentally friendly manner; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives
transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the news
media of Ohio. |
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