Reactor Licensing & Regulation

NRC Rejects Petition on Post-Fukushima Spent Fuel Monitoring

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is denying a petition from a retired Department of Energy nuclear physicist calling for the agency to mandate augmented monitoring of reactor spent fuel pools and reactor coolant and fuel.
Alexander DeVolpi, who worked at the…

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