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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…”
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.”
Valor Atomics' Los Alamos criticality achievement was merely a zero-power test
“For example, Valor Atomics announced that they had reached criticality at Los Alamos, but, you know, it's an experiment that Los Alamos already had running. It is with a fuel similar to Valor Atomics fuel, but it was a zero power criticality test, so it's basi…”
Huff: NRC staffing has declined under the current administration
“Furthermore, they have fewer staff than they did before this administration began, and so the staffing issue certainly is one to keep in mind.”
Huff: No advanced reactor developers are using NRC Part 53 yet
“There's now one called part 53 that's for advanced reactors, but no one's really using it yet.”
Huff: Research reactors historically take roughly two years from concrete to criticality
“In fact, in the history of building research reactors, the kind of median time for how long it takes from pouring concrete to getting to that hot, hot, full power criticality is much longer. It's two years or so, right? And there's a nice report out of Oak Rid…”
Huff: Decades-old early site permits still lack nuclear reactors
“There are many early site permits that have been supported that still don't have a reactor built on them that were sort of decades old.”
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…”