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U.S. NRC Blog
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Updating Nuclear Materials Transportation Regulations
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3 days ago
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Jessica Umaña Project Manager, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation The idea of transporting nuclear materials can make people nervous. It’s easy to imagine worst-case accidents on the highway or involving a train. But stringent safety...
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When Gauges Go Missing …
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5 days ago
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Neil Sheehan Public Affairs Officer, Region I It’s easy to imagine the sense of distress that must have washed over a portable nuclear gauge user one recent morning when he realized the device he had stowed in the back of his truck was missing. The...
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Emergency Preparedness on a Smaller Scale: Research Reactors
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9 days ago
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Michael Norris Reactor Licensing Team Leader Emergency Preparedness Division When you think of the NRC’s role in emergency preparedness, nuclear power plants probably come first to mind. While we certainly pay a lot of attention to commercial reactors...
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When “Nuclear” is the Star of Stage and Screen
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11 days ago
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Scott Burnell Public Affairs Officer Anything radioactive makes for good drama – or so many television and movie scriptwriters believe. “China Syndrome” in 1979 and “Silkwood” in 1983 are just two examples of movies with nuclear themes – reactors in...
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Writing in Plain English—An Ongoing Challenge
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13 days ago
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Glenn Ellmers Senior Communications Specialist The NRC’s technical experts are highly educated individuals with a lot of expertise in their fields. But getting them to speak in plain English can be a challenge. That can be a problem because the public...
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When Problems Are a Sign of Success
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18 days ago
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Chris Allen Project Manager Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Can a problem show that our regulatory system works? If you don’t think so, read on. Two weeks ago, the NRC published an “information notice” about moisture causing problems...
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Tracking the Source: Pilgrim’s Tritium Link
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20 days ago
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Neil Sheehan Public Affairs Officer, Region I It may not be as daunting as searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack, but the process of trying to track down the source of tritium contamination at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant has been long...
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Q&A With NRC Kids: Radiation and Other Questions
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24 days ago
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Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs Art Linkletter, a 1950s and ‘60s radio and television host, used to interview children for his show “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” In that spirit, at last year’s “Take your Child to Work Day” at the...
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Let’s Chat – Coming Soon to the NRC
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26 days ago
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Holly Harrington Senior Advisor The NRC is expanding its social media program next week by launching a pilot of a live discussion platform known as NRC Chat. The first Chat is scheduled for April 30 at 2 p.m. EST on the subject of history of U.S. nuclear...
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Ensuring the Safety of Spent Fuel in Storage
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1 month ago
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Mark Lombard Director, Office of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation While no one can say with certainty today where spent nuclear fuel will ultimately go for long-term storage or disposal, one thing is clear: the current methods of spent fuel storage...
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NRC Sends Additional Inspectors to Oversee Perry’s Refueling Outage
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1 month ago
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Viktoria Mitlying Senior Public Affairs Officer Region III A refueling outage is a time when the number of workers at the plant soars from 700 to about 2,000 — with most working in highly radioactive areas of the plant not accessible during normal...
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NRC Posts Newly Digitized Historical Images on Flickr
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1 month ago
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Ivonne Couret Public Affairs Officer Are you interested in what President Jimmy Carter looked like when he toured Three Mile Island in the spring of 1979? Or see the change in fashion styles of NRC engineers over the past decades? These photos and more...
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The NRC and Protecting the Environment: The NEPA Process
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1 month ago
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Larry Camper Director Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection At the NRC, we think of ourselves as an environmental agency. This view is included in the NRC mission statement: “To license and regulate . . . to ensure the adequate protection...
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Inspector General Report Identifies Ways To Improve NRC’s Safeguards Information Local Area Network and Electronic Safe
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1 month ago
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Stephen Dingbaum Assistant Inspector General The Office of the Inspector General’s most recent report – Audit of NRC’s Safeguards Information Local Area Network and Electronic Safe (SLES) – is now available to the public. This audit set out to determine...
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Inspector General Report Presents Results of the NRC 2012 Safety Culture and Climate Survey
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1 month ago
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Stephen Dingbaum Assistant Inspector General The Office of the Inspector General’s most recent report — 2012 NRC Safety Culture and Climate Survey – is now available to the public. The results of the survey of the agency workforce were significantly...
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Easter Sunday and Arkansas Nuclear One
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1 month ago
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Victor Dricks Senior Public Affairs Officer, Region IV As the eyes and ears of the NRC, resident inspectors never know when they might have to respond to an emergency at the plants they monitor. Fred Sanchez, Arkansas Nuclear One Senior Resident Inspector...
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New Web Pages Illustrate NRC’s Post-Fukushima Activities
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1 month ago
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Matthew Mitchell Chief, Projects Management Branch Japan Lessons-Learned Directorate When you talk about something over and over again, you sometimes end up with a verbal shorthand to keep conversations moving. The NRC has certainly done that in discussing...
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Working Together to Keep Radioactive Materials Safe
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1 month ago
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Kim Lukes Health Physicist Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs Occasionally the Department of Energy makes news when it picks up radioactive materials from users who no longer want them. DOE plays an important...
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NRC’s Waste Confidence Scoping Report: What’s It All About?
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1 month ago
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Andy Imboden Chief, Communications Branch, Waste Confidence Directorate The NRC’s Waste Confidence Directorate has issued its scoping summary report – based on the 1,700 comments we received on the question of what issues we’ll consider in the environmental...
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Taking an Updated Look at a Potential Accident’s Economic Consequences
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1 month ago
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Rich Correia Director, Division of Risk Analysis Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research The NRC’s review of new reactor licenses, renewal of existing licenses or major changes to our safety regulations involves an analysis of the impacts of potential...
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NRC Commission Approves More Post-Fukushima Upgrades to Nuclear Plants
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2 months ago
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Scott Burnell Public Affairs Officer The NRC has already ordered numerous upgrades to nuclear power plant safety based on what we’ve learned about the Fukushima nuclear incident in 2011. Now, the NRC’s Commission is doing more. They have just approved...
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Inspector General Report Identifies Ways to Improve NRC’s Occupational Training Program
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2 months ago
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Stephen Dingbaum Assistant Inspector General The NRC’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an independent, objective office tasked with auditing NRC programs and operations with a focus on — among other things — detecting fraud, waste...
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Looking to Hear From the Public on the FY 2013 Proposed Fees
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2 months ago
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Arlette Howard Fee Policy Analyst Office of the Chief Financial Officer It’s that time of the year, when we ask the public for their comments about proposed changes to our fees. The NRC is required by law to recover approximately 90 percent of our budget...
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Fort Calhoun: A Status Update
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2 months ago
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Lara Uselding Public Affairs Officer, Region IV The NRC will hold a public meeting March 27 to discuss the status of the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, located 19 miles north of Omaha. As many know, the plant has been shut down since April 9, 2011, for...
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Two years after Fukushima: Enhancements to U.S. Nuclear Plants Continue
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2 months ago
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David Skeen Director, Japan Lessons-Learned Directorate Today is the second anniversary of the terrible earthquake, related tsunami and the resulting nuclear accident in Japan. Two years ago, the world watched in horror as the tragedy unfolded. Almost...
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