Some companies are also filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for permission to build new plants.
Today, amid allegations of staff bullying, Gregory Jaczko resigned as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
In the past nuclear hopefuls would first apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a construction license.
"This appears to be a fairly straightforward shutdown, " said Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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There are 31 reactors in the United States for research or testing purposes, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meanwhile, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reviewing GE's application to build a plant.
According to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Kodak's uranium was highly enriched -- to a level approaching 93.4%.
Entergy has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a 20-year license extension, and the NRC will likely grant the extension.
But the designs are still under review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, whose approval is the worldwide "gold seal, " Genoa said.
More than 2 million tritium EXIT signs are estimated to be in use in the United States, according the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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We should lower the barriers at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the approval of new nuclear reactors, especially the new small ones.
On a separate issue, the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Greg Jaczko, came to the White House today to brief the President.
And here in the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted Southern Company and Scana Corp. permission to build two reactors each.
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So it is with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the United States Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
In 1982, Sandia National Laboratories simulated the impacts of a catastrophic accident at nuclear power plants on the surrounding environment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Edison has been trying since October to convince the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it's safe to run Unit 2 at no more than 70 percent power.
The company used the reactor to test chemicals and perform radiography tests, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but even such benign uses are extremely rare.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy were both formed in the 1970s to develop nuclear energy and thereby reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has already granted them to 64 plants, most recently on March 21st to Vermont Yankee, which is of the same design and vintage as the Fukushima reactors.
And that responsibility lies with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
But emotions were high when it was announced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the reactor at Oyster Creek in New Jersey, the oldest nuclear power plant of all, was on Alert.
The National Marine Fisheries Service prepared the document at the request of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is conducting hearings on whether Indian Point's owner, Entergy Nuclear, should get 20-year license extensions.
Edison submitted a tentative request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, technically known as a license amendment, that if approved would cap Unit 2's capacity at 70 percent, down from the now-required 100 percent.
It is trying to get two designs for advanced reactors certified for use in the U.S. by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is marketing the reactors in many other nations, including throughout Asia.
The Bush administration said that despite a newer licensing process at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, experiences in the 1970s and 1980s have left uncertainty among potential investors about their ability to negotiate the new system.
In January 2003 the Microsoft SQL Server worm, known as Slammer, infected a private computer network at David-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, disabling a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
In one of the examples cited in the report, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has twice raised the acceptable level of radiation damage reactor vessels can sustain, after several plants violated or came close to violating the original standard.
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But according to follow-up studies reported by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the resulting average dose of radiation that about 2 million people in the TMI area received amounted to 1 millirem, six times less than exposure to a single standard chest x-ray.
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"This was a very serious incident because they penetrated the protected area, and that's when there was supposed to be an immediate security response, " said Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist with Global Security Program, a watchdog group that monitors the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Interestingly, the mere suspicion that a single weld in a U.S. nuclear reactor has been improperly performed can result in the denial of Nuclear Regulatory Commission certification, pending proof to the contrary.
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