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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
D. A. Petti, B. J. Merrill
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 967-973
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Tritium, Safety, and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A813
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With the US re-entering the ITER project, the US safety program has been tasked to address safety issues left unresolved during the US absence over the past five years. As a consequence our current and future US ITER safety studies will focus on validating US safety analysis tools that underpin the ITER safety analysis, refining in-vessel dust and tritium inventory safety limits and developing corresponding dust and tritium removal strategies that will demonstrate compliance with ITER limits without hampering operational flexibility of the machine.