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Regulatory Update: Industry-Led Technology-Inclusive Content of Application Project (TICAP)
March 9, 2020 – The TICAP is an industry-led and DOE cost-shared effort to develop technology-inclusive guidance regarding the expectations for the content for specific portions of the safety analysis report (SAR) that would be used to support an advanced reactor application.
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Regulatory Update: Key Commission Policy Issue Regarding Containment Now Resolved
December 4, 2018 – The Commission formally concurred with the NRC technical staff’s recommendations regarding the advanced non-LWR approach for allowing alternatives to large leaktight containment structures (see NRC SECY-18-0096).
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Regulatory Update: Guidance for Developing Principal Design Criteria for Non-Light-Water Reactors
April 9, 2018 – The NRC’s new Regulatory Guide 1.232, “Guidance for Developing Principal Design Criteria for Non-Light-Water Reactors,” helps developers of these technologies align their concepts with relevant NRC regulations and forms a key portion of the NRC’s advanced reactor regulatory framework.
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Regulatory Update: Regular Industry Interaction with NRC on Advanced Reactor Topics
December 17, 2017 – Following a successful series of semi-annual DOE-NRC workshops on Advanced Non-Light Water Reactors held in 2015 – 2017, the workshop format was transitioned to more frequent (6 weeks) periodic industry stakeholder meetings with NRC that are focused on specific topics of interest.
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Regulatory Update: DOE-NRC Memorandum of Understanding
November 16, 2016 – The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) describes the roles, responsibilities, and processes related to the implementation of the DOE Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative.