NRC Proposes Landmark Reactor Licensing Overhaul, Bundling Decades of Modernization Into One Rule

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed what may be its most consequential reactor-licensing overhaul in a generation, a 553-page rulemaking that seeks to rewrite core pieces of the regulatory framework governing how commercial nuclear plants are sited, licensed, built, modified, operated, renewed, fueled, and ultimately decommissioned. Issued July 1, the proposed rule, “Modernizing Reactor […] The post NRC Proposes Landmark Reactor Licensing Overhaul, Bundling Decades of Modernization Into One Rule appeared first on POWER Magazine .