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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
Yasuo Hirose (Retired)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 787-798
The present research intends to investigate some chemical aspects of Molten-Salt Reactors (MSR) specifically in TRU burning application taking a particular interest in the facts under which being misled carelessly by immaturity of the MSR technology as exclusively established for thorium utilization. Topics include density assumption of fuel salt with high actinide concentration; chemical effect of PuF3 fission comparing with that of UF4; suspected validity of the fuel slat as a solution of FLiNaK and an alternative fuel salt constitution procedure. Chemical processes applicable to on-line, front-end and back-end of the Fast Molten Salt Reactor with U-Pu fuel cycle (FMSR-U/Pu) are discussed in encouraging and stimulating its development.