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    The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and...
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    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has divided the US territory into four regions: These four regions oversee the operation of 104 power-producing reactors...
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    water. The closure of these valves was a violation of a key Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rule, according to which the reactor must be shut down...
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    could surpass the United States in nuclear energy production. As of October 2014,[update] the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had granted license renewals...
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  • Director of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Executive Director for Operations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deputy Director...
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    the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. On August 4, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the...
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    commercial nuclear energy when, on March 28, 1979, TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown. According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report...
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  • the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has often been too timid in ensuring that America's 104 commercial reactors are operated safely: Nuclear power...
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    activities. For FY18, the DOE requested $120 million and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) $30 million from Congress to continue licensing activities...
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    term nuclear meltdown is not officially defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency or by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It has...
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  • (DOE). The site use permit, issued in December 2019 is not a Nuclear Regulatory Commission permit. It will use "recycled" high-assay, low-enriched uranium...
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    operating license was scheduled to expire; in March 2011, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) extended its license for another 20 years. Vermont Yankee's...
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    to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents...
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  • According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Three Mile Island accident was the most serious accident in "U.S. commercial nuclear power plant...
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    south of San Clemente, California, on the Pacific coast, in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV. The plant was shut down in 2013 after defects were...
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  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission (JNRC) (Arabic هيئة تنظيم العمل الإشعاعي والنووي) was established in 2007 as a successor to the former Jordan Nuclear Energy...
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    According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Davis–Besse has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United...
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    staffing. Seabrook Station was also granted regulatory exemptions from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to aid in its preventative efforts against the...
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  • design in final form by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. GE and Hitachi officially established the GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) global alliance...
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    completed in 1972 and 1973. In 2002, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) extended the operating licenses for both nuclear reactors from forty years to sixty...
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    (2010) The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble (2007) Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant...
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    at times been placed on enhanced examination status by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 1999, Northeast Utilities, the plant's operator at the time...
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    1,076 megawatts of power. Units 1 and 2 are licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to operate through 2033 and 2034, respectively. The plant...
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    Unit 2, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 2, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [8], Entergy Nuclear. [9], Entergy Nuclear. "NRC: Emergency...
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    accident. On November 16, 2006, the operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a renewal and extension of the plant's operating license...
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    respectively. Entergy had applied for license extensions and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was moving toward granting a twenty-year extension for...
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    concrete building on plant property. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway...
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  • do so." In February 1976 the CIA briefed senior staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) about the matter, stating that the CIA believed the missing...
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    temperature. The 600 ft concrete chimney vents gases. In 2006, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) renewed the licenses for all three reactors, extending...
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    instance per 7.6 million reactor years. The plant is located in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV. In 2016, PG&E announced that it plans to close the...
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