Reactor Licensing & Regulation

NRC Chair Talks Autonomy, Trust Building at Industry Advanced Reactor Summit

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is independent from the Biden administration’s energy goals, but that shouldn’t “be an impediment to innovation and deployment,” the agency’s chairman said at an industry summit this week.
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