The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requires nuclear power reactor licensees to maintain decommissioning cost estimates and to adjust those estimates periodically to account for inflation and other matters, pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.75, “Reporting...
NRC will complete environmental reviews and issuenenvironmental impact statements on some license applicationsnduring a 24-month freeze on issuance of licensesnfor new nuclear power units and renewals for operatingnunits, despite the rejection of its current waste confidencenrule by a federal court, ...
In addition, regulations and licenses require licensees to formally report a broad range of conditions that challenged or could have challenged the ability of equipment to perform specified safety functions. The NRC provides oversight of power reactor licensee activities through a Reactor Oversight ...
STATUS OF THE NRC DECOMMISSIONING PROGRAM NRC regulations also require that reactor licensees submit Post-shutdown Decommissioning Activities Reports and License Termination Plans to support the decommissioning of nuclear power facilities. This paper provides an update on the status of... Dominick Orlando...
Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical EngineeringRoss-Ross, P.A. Pressure tubes: the pressure vessels in the CANDU nuclear power reactor. Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 5(2);61-68 (1978/79).
which the DOE could move SNF until a long-term geological SNF storage facility opens. But so far, while consolidated interim storage planning continues to be a priority, the DOE appears to have shifted its focus on enabling long-term SNF storage at the 76 reactor or storag...
Ninety-six of the 99 operating power reactorsrnin the US were in NRC's two highestrnperformance categories as of the end of 2016,rnthe agency said in a March 3 statementrnreleasing its annual assessment of therncountry's nuclear power plants.Steven Dolley...
POWER plants -- Design & constructionThe article offers information on the small modular reactor (SMR) design submitted by private limited liability company NuScale Power to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a commercial power plant. It states that the power plant is planned to ...
NRC MODIFIES FINANCIAL INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR POWER REACTOR LICENSESAGENCYGROUP05EBSCO_bspFdch Regulatory Intelligence Database
entitled "Reducing the Hazards from Stored Spent Power-Reactor Fuel in the United States." In response to an invitation by the Editor to the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the NRC has now published a critical review of the article and submitted it to the Journal for ...