Regulatory Support

GAIN — in close coordination with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission — provides nuclear industry stakeholders, including developers, license applicants, and owner-operators, with guidance through regulatory framework development and licensing support. This support and its outcomes will take a variety of forms and continue to evolve as technologies mature. If you’d like more information how GAIN can support your regulatory needs, contact Scott Ferrara, Regulatory Affairs Interface, at [email protected] or 208-390-5697.

Route to Regulatory Deployment

The regulatory route to deploying commercial nuclear technologies can overwhelm developers. So GAIN created a webinar series to help you understand how government and industry arrived at the current U.S. regulatory framework for commercial reactors and how to navigate future paths to successful deployment.

Facilitating Regulatory Change

Like any industry, the regulatory landscape can bring about uncertainties, as well as associated schedule, technical and financial risks, to nuclear developers’ deployment strategies. At GAIN, we work to help the industry identify, address and resolve these issues.

Frequently Asked Questions

We’ve answered the questions that the nuclear industry most frequently asks about the U.S. regulatory landscape.

Regulatory News

DOE’s Regulatory Development Program Survey

DOE's Regulatory Development Program is conducting this survey to better understand stakeholder needs, regulatory challenges, and emerging priorities. Your feedback will help: *Prioritize regulatory development efforts *Allocate technical resources effectively *Identify capability and expertise gaps *Improve collaboration opportunities *Accelerate technology deployment and licensing efficiency *Support future regulatory modernization activities Estimated completion time: 10–15 minutes.

Regulatory Update: NRC Issues Construction Permit for the Kairos Power Hermes 2 Project

November 21, 2024 - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued construction permits for the Hermes 2 test reactor facility to Kairos Power LLC on November 21, 2024, sixteen months after receiving the construction permit application from Kairos (July 2023).

Regulatory Update: NRC Issues Construction Permit for Molten Salt Research Reactor at Abilene Christian University

September 16, 2024 - The NRC has issued a Construction Permit to Abilene Christian University (ACU) to build its Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility on the university’s campus in Abilene, Texas. It marks the first research reactor project approved by the NRC in a number of decades. The MSRR, which will not generate electricity, will use molten salt coolant with fuel dissolved in the salt.