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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC cuts fees by 50 percent for advanced reactor applicants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced it has amended regulations for the licensing, inspection, special projects, and annual fees it will charge applicants and licensees for fiscal year 2025.
Steven Unikewicz, Eric Loewen, George Malone
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 1 | October 2022 | Pages S11-S22
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2027738
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
With the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act of 2018, launched in March 2019, the Congress of the United States authorized funding to design and build a Versatile Test Reactor (VTR). This paper describes the current state of the design, a snapshot, of the key systems that the VTR will rely upon to achieve its mission of irradiating a wide variety of fuels, materials, instruments, and sensors with fast neutrons at a high neutron flux.