Nuclear Regulatory Commission
also referred to as: nrc
22 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 7 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Feb 25, 2022 by Jake DeWitt · said 121 times in 10 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Shayle Kann (70), Katie Huff (22), Jake DeWitt (18), Lara Pierpoint (6), Stephen Lacey (2), Jessica Lovering (2), Chris Colbert (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 53 mentions in 1 episode
2025 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2024 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2023 26 mentions in 2 episodes 13 per episode
2022 24 mentions in 2 episodes 12 per episode
Everything said about Nuclear Regulatory Commission, oldest first
Feb 25, 2022 positive
DeWitt: Oklo submitted a 600-page NRC application instead of 10,000+ pages
“Instead of being a 10,000 plus page document, it was, you know, 600 pages. It was, which by the way, mind you, is actually still a higher page per megawatt count than other plants, so it doesn't scale perfectly like that, but still significantly more efficient…”
Feb 25, 2022 negative
DeWitt: Very few Western nuclear applications succeeded in the past 40 years
“There have been very few successes in the last 40 years where plants that have submitted their initial applications to not just the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but any Western regulator and had those plans actually built and operated.”
Jun 23, 2022 negative
Feb 16, 2023 negative
Kugelmass: No entity has completed NRC licensing for under $1 billion
“In order to get a license, you have to submit a license application. It is at minimum, in the U.S., it's at minimum four years, ah, worth of work. No one has done it for less than one billion dollars. No one has spent less than one billion dollars in licensing…”
Feb 16, 2023 neutral
Feb 16, 2023 bearish
Kugelmass: NuScale's NRC certificate is for a deprecated design they discarded
“The things that they got the certificate for are deprecated designs. So no, they don't have like, yeah, like everything that you're seeing is for something they submitted years and years and years ago, and they've totally thrown in the trash at this point also…”
Feb 16, 2023 negative
Feb 16, 2023 negative
Kugelmass: Any NRC administrative assistant can trigger a two-year project shutdown
“Like, any single person, you could be an administrative assistant at the NRC, at any point can raise a safety flag on any project and shut that project down for two years. This could be someone with no technical training whatsoever. If they come across a piece…”
Nov 16, 2023 neutral
May 9, 2025 neutral
May 9, 2025 positive
NRC nuclear application review timelines have dropped from four to two years
“That has been demonstrated by reduced timelines for them to review various applications I've observed just in the 15 years I've been in the nuclear space where, you know, what once took four years is now being done in two years.”
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Huff: NRC faces a February 23rd deadline on radiation dose rulemaking
“Just a month from now, February 23rd, they'll have to release rule, like, guidance rulemaking on how they have either changed or not changed those dose rates without any real new data, just because the administration has declared that they ought to.”
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Huff: Reactor applicants must include on-site spent fuel plans for NRC approval
“All of that is to say that at the moment, companies do need to include some plan for how they're going to manage in the interim their spent nuclear fuel on site until the federal government takes ownership of it, and so that has to be a part of their applicati…”
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
Feb 5, 2026 negative
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
Huff: X-Energy and Kairos reactor licenses are advancing rapidly at NRC
“Certain applications are going really well and quickly with decisions kind of moving rapidly. The ones that were already in progress, like X-Energy's reactor and Kairos' reactor and stuff, have had some nice announcements recently associated with their, you kn…”
Feb 5, 2026 neutral
NRC rejected Oklo's application over safety and accident information gaps
“So, the thing that NRC denied for Oklo was that they submitted a combined license application, so this is for that parallel step where you don't do a separate design certification, you sort of submit a combined operating license and construction permit applica…”