Nuclear is Our Future

Nuclear Regulatory Reform

Regulatory Reform Summary: How We Would Reform Federal, State, and Local Regulators


10 CFR: Our Version


Accommodating Small Businesses in Licensing


Accommodating Waste-Eating Reactors


Application Procedure Changes


Assessment of the Spent Fuel Tax


Certainty and Stability


Consistency in Regulations


Define Reprocessing


Defining Agencies’ Jurisdictions


Defining the TRTR


Differentiating Problems from Public Safety Threats


Disclosure


Encouraging the Right Kind of New Build


Establish Periodic Reviews of All Regulations


Fee Assessments


Fee Structure for Integral Facilities


Fee Structure for Non-Waste-Generating Facilities


Financial Monitoring


Fines--Procedure, Levying, Severity


Government Funding of Federal Reviews


Government-Wide Agency Operating Procedure Reforms


Guidelines to Shorten Reviews


Hearings: Loser Pays


Levy the Carbon Tax Only on Facilities that Emit Carbon


Loosening the NRC Stranglehold on Doctors


No More Defense-in-Depth


No Violation, No Citation


Non-Metered Electricity


NRC Must Only Regulate Nuclear Systems


One-Step Licensing


One-Stop-Shop Regulation


Passive Safety, Reactor Physics, and People Power


Payment-of-Interest-First


Private Ownership of Fuel


Reinstate CWIP


Relicensing of Facilities with Identical Considerations


Restructure the NRC to Implement Reforms


Risk-Informed Decision-Making


Stop Amending Design Certifications During Construction


Stop Micromanagement


Stop the LNT


Technical Specifications and Fines


Testing for Safety and Efficacy


Uprating a Certified Design


Waste-Disposal Standards