Happy New Year! As we start off 2019, we want to motive the nuclear community by sharing a few legal updates and popular reports that have come out around the end of the last year.
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Preparing for Advanced Reactors – Thoughts on Regulatory & Licensing Reform
Blog author Sachin Desai, along with a member of the NRC staff, both acting in their individual capacity, recently published an article in the American Bar Association’s nuclear law publication entitled “Preparing for Advanced Reactors: Exploring Regulatory and Licensing
A Closer Look at Regulatory Reform Proposals in the Canadian SMR Roadmap … and a Few U.S. Updates Too!
Earlier this month, a leading group of Canadian power companies and government entities (although not the nuclear regulator) issued a “Canadian SMR Roadmap,” an 89 page plan for Canada to become a leader in small modular and advanced
Fusion Innovation Crosses Milestone with Launch of Fusion Industry Association
Significant advances in fusion energy research in recent years have helped set aside the typical storyline that fusion—long considered the “Holy Grail” of energy—is “always 40 years away.” Instead, as we have highlighted in prior blog posts, fusion innovators are
NRC Issues Paper to Commission on “Functional Containment” Concept
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently released a staff paper-SECY-18-0096-seeking Commission approval of a new proposed methodology for establishing “functional containment” performance criteria for non-light water reactors (non-LWRs). This methodology would step away from deterministic containment design
US Government Clamps Down on Nuclear Exports to China
In a development that could cause every advanced reactor startup to reexamine its growth strategy, the US government (USG) yesterday afternoon issued a new framework concerning exports to China, which largely closes the export market to advanced reactor companies.
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Significant Legislative Activity Impacting Advanced Nuclear
Recently, the Hill has been taking a flurry of legislative actions that impact the advanced reactor community across all spectra. We provide a summary of some of the major bills going through Congress below, including a couple which have recently
“Nuclear Energy Leadership Act” (S 3422): Important Legislation Introduced Aimed at Restoring U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy
A bipartisan group of nine U.S. senators has introduced the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA) (S 3422), a bill designed to help the United States return to its lead in nuclear energy technology. The bill sponsors explain that the U.S.
NRC Issues Draft Guidance on Non-LWR License Application Contents
This month, the NRC published an early draft regulatory guide on the content of license applications for non-LWRs. The document is designed to help license applicants apply the NRC’s movement towards a risk-informed/performance-based regulatory approach towards the drafting of an
CFIUS/Export Controls Reform to Affect Foreign Investment for Advanced Reactors
In today’s international nuclear marketplace, foreign investment is a significant source of capital for U.S. next-generation nuclear ventures. However, about-to-be signed legislation has the potential to broadly expand the ability of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States