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NRC making changes to mandatory hearings timeline
Mandatory hearings conducted as part of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission reactor licensing review will be held much sooner in the process, the agency announced Tuesday.
A provision states that uncontested hearings must be held at some point after 30 days of an application being docketed. Historically, the NRC has conducted these toward the end of its review of applications for construction permits, early site permits, and combined licenses. The change announced this week would have hearings be held sooner, about 30 days after an application is docketed.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory addresses compelling national challenges in fusion and fission energy systems. Our world-class researchers use cutting-edge science and engineering to enable efficiencies in our current light-water reactors and accelerate bringing fusion and advanced fission energy online to benefit humanity.
