Items Tagged with 'NRC'

Published May 1 in the Federal Register with a 42-day comment, the proposed Part 57 rule outlines a “streamlined, risk-informed and flexible licensing pathway” NRC claims could save up to $11.8 billion and shorten construction permit and operating license timelines to one year or less.

TerraPower begins construction of the first U.S. utility-scale advanced nuclear plant—can its Natrium design finally move next-generation reactors into commercial reality?

Nation's high court hears arguments in a case weighing the fate of storage facilities for nuclear spent-fuel built and operated by private firms. 

Contractor will build estimated $629M demo facility in Tennessee for engineer-developer Kairos Power—the first and only advanced nuclear reactor that feds have approved for construction

Bechtel has EPC contract to build TerraPower's estimated $4B sodium-cooled reactor at commercial scale at former coal power plant site in Wyoming. 

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's internal watchdog wants overhaul of agency reporting system as new incidents of counterfeit, defective and suspect components surface

Binational regulators will offer the first joint certification of one design under a cooperation agreement reached in August.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is moving ahead to issue a new license to the New Hampshire plant despite a pending hearing on multiple cracks at the plant.