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Christopher T. Hanson is an American political staffer and energy consultant who served as the 17th chair of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 2021 to 2025. He was sworn as a NRC Commissioner on June 8, 2020. He was previously a staff member on the Senate Appropriations Committee, as well as a Department of Energy official.
The NRC protects public health and safety and advances the nation’s common defense and security by enabling the safe and secure use and deployment of civilian nuclear energy technologies and radioactive materials through efficient and reliable licensing, oversight, and regulation for the benefit of society and the environment.
On September 24, 2007, NRG Energy filed an application with the NRC to build two Toshiba ABWRs at the South Texas Nuclear Project site. [16] It was the first application for a nuclear reactor submitted to the NRC since 1979.
In the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates the nuclear energy industry more strictly than most other industries. [9] The NRC and the Department of Energy (DOE), work together to ensure plant safety, building and operational permits, movement and storage of nuclear waste , management of weapons-grade byproducts of ...
In 2006, it said: "Since 2001, the ROP has resulted in more than 4,000 inspection findings concerning nuclear power plant licensees' failure to fully comply with NRC regulations and industry standards for safe plant operation, and NRC has subjected more than 7.5 percent (79) of the 103 operating plants to increased oversight for varying periods ...
The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, is a subordinate part of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [1] The office should not be confused with the NRC's Nuclear Regulatory Research. The office's current director is William Dean.
Thomas Wellock (born 1959) is the American historian for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.Trained as both an engineer and a historian, he writes scholarly histories of the regulation of commercial nuclear energy. [1]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km), concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.