; (B) operating a database to store and share data and knowledge relevant to nuclear science and engineering between Federal agencies and the private sector; (C) leveraging expertise with respect to safety analysis and research relating to advanced nuclear fuel; and (D) enabling technical staff to actively observe and learn about technologies, with an emphasis on identification of additional information needed with respect to advanced nuclear fuel; and (2) to ensure that— (A) the Department of Energy has sufficient technical expertise to support the timely research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of advanced nuclear fuel; (B) the Commission has sufficient technical expertise to support the evaluation of applications for licenses, permits, and design certifications and other requests for regulatory approval for advanced nuclear fuel; (C) (i) the Department of Energy maintains and develops the facilities necessary to enable the timely research, development, demonstration, and commercial application by the civilian nuclear industry of advanced nuclear fuel; and (ii) the Commission has access to the facilities described in clause (i), as needed; and (D) the Commission consults, as appropriate, with the modeling and simulation experts at the Office of Nuclear Energy of the Department of Energy, at the National Laboratories, and within industry fuel vendor teams in cooperative agreements with the Department of Energy to leverage physics-based computer modeling and simulation capabilities. (c) Report (1) In general Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report describing the efforts of the Commission under subsection (a), including— (A) an assessment of the preparedness of the Commission to review and qualify for use— (i) accident tolerant fuel; (ii) ceramic cladding materials; (iii) fuels containing silicon carbide; (iv) high-assay, low-enriched uranium fuels; (v) molten-salt based liquid fuels