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NRC launches webpage for COVID-19 exemptions

April 28, 2020, 10:46AMNuclear News

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation has created a web portal for nuclear reactor licensees to submit regulatory exemption requests related to the coronavirus pandemic. At this writing, the COVID-19 Regulatory Activities for Nuclear Reactors webpage is offering online submissions for 10 CFR Part 26 work-hour exemption requests.

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NRC proposes rule changes in response to EO

December 11, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

In April, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14270, “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy,” which calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (along with...

Nieh sworn in to NRC

December 9, 2025, 7:04AMNuclear News

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now back up to four commissioners. Following a 66–32 confirmation vote in the U.S. Senate last month, Ho Nieh was officially sworn in last week.He fills...

NRC receives construction application for isotope production reactor

November 24, 2025, 7:00AMNuclear News

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has received the first portion of a construction permit application from Oklo subsidiary Atomic Alchemy that requests permission to build...

Nieh confirmed for the NRC

November 19, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

Earlier today, the U.S. Senate officially confirmed Ho Nieh in a 66–32 vote to serve as a commissioner on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission through the remainder of a term that will...

PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ho Nieh as NRC commissioner

Senate confirms Ho Nieh as commissioner for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

November 19, 2025, 11:58AMPress Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Ho Nieh to serve as a commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC):...

NRC extends comment period for X-energy’s TX-1 fuel facility

November 19, 2025, 11:25AMNuclear News

Due to the days lost to the government shutdown, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the public comment period for a draft environmental impact statement for the TX-1 advanced...

Construction begins on X-energy’s Oak Ridge advanced fuel facility

November 18, 2025, 12:07PMNuclear News

Small modular reactor developer X-energy and its subsidiary TRISO-X announced yesterday the start of aboveground construction for its TX-1 advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Oak...

NRC could improve decommissioning trust fund oversight, OIG reports

November 17, 2025, 3:00PMRadwaste Solutions

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission could do more to improve its oversight of decommissioning trust funds, according to an assessment by the NRC’s Office of Inspector General. In particular,...

New financing round benefits Valar

November 13, 2025, 3:00PMNuclear News

Hawthorne, Calif.–based reactor start-up Valar Atomics recently announced that it has raised $130 million in its Series A funding round, led by venture capital groups Snowpoint, Day One, and...

Beyond Nuclear brings interim storage case back to Supreme Court

November 13, 2025, 7:03AMRadwaste Solutions

The U.S. Supreme Court may once again scrutinize the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s authority to license consolidated interim storage facilities for commercial spent nuclear fuel. The...

NRC launches webpage for COVID-19 exemptions

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