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    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related...
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    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has divided the US territory into four regions: These four regions oversee the operation of 104 power-producing reactors...
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    water. The closure of these valves was a violation of a key Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rule, according to which the reactor must be shut down...
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    the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. On August 4, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the...
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    could surpass the United States in nuclear energy production. As of October 2014,[update] the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted license renewals...
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  • the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has often been too timid in ensuring that America's 104 commercial reactors are operated safely: Nuclear power...
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    States commercial nuclear energy when, on March 28, 1979, TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report,...
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    operating license was scheduled to expire; in March 2011, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) extended its license for another 20 years. Vermont Yankee's...
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    south of San Clemente, California, on the Pacific coast, in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV. The plant was shut down in 2013 after defects were...
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    the eleventh largest power plant in the United States. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized its staff to issue combined licences for Florida...
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    respectively. Entergy had applied for license extensions and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was moving toward granting a twenty-year extension for...
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  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission (JNRC) (Arabic هيئة تنظيم العمل الإشعاعي والنووي) was established in 2007 as a successor to the former Jordan Nuclear Energy...
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    According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Davis–Besse has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United...
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    truck in robust containers known as spent nuclear fuel shipping casks, approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. While the routes in Nevada would have...
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  • Director of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Executive Director for Operations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deputy Director...
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  • design in final form by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. GE and Hitachi officially established the GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) global alliance...
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    term nuclear meltdown is not officially defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency or by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It has...
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    gave rise to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC was committed to 'regulations through research', which gave the regulatory committee a knowledge...
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    shut down on October 24, 2016. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway...
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    to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents...
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  • December 2019 is not a Nuclear Regulatory Commission permit. It is the "first and only permit ever issued in the U.S. to a nuclear plant using something...
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    their other LPs. Another music project of The Farm was the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (also known as "NRC"), a New wave music band. They released...
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    and Licensing Board, a division of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), stopped the planned nuclear station at Byron by refusing its owners, then...
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    accident. On November 16, 2006, the operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a renewal and extension of the plant's operating license...
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  • According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Three Mile Island accident was the most serious accident in "U.S. commercial nuclear power plant...
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    instance per 7.6 million reactor years. The plant is located in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV. In 2016, PG&E announced that it plans to close the...
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  • do so." In February 1976 the CIA briefed senior staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) about the matter, stating that the CIA believed the missing...
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    temperature. The 600 ft concrete chimney vents gases. In 2006, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) renewed the licenses for all three reactors, extending...
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    Unit #2 came online in May 1988. The units were licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to operate until 2026 and 2027, then granted extended licenses...
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    Unit 2, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 2, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [8], Entergy Nuclear. [9], Entergy Nuclear. "NRC: Emergency...
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