Watch Chairman Nieh discuss how the NRC is modernizing while maintaining safety in a fireside chat with @SenatorHagerty, moderated by @nukebarbarian at the Energy Imperatives Summit. Watch the full conversation: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
From the 17th floor of the NRC’s headquarters, Chairman Ho K. Nieh can see what he describes as a “memorial” to the nuclear energy renaissance that was expected in the early to mid-2000s, but that failed to materialize.
More from my interview with Nieh:
🎓✨ Future engineers from @UTChattanooga toured our training center, ran full-scale simulators, and heard from NRC inspectors to get a hands-on look at how we prepare our workforce to keep U.S. reactors safe and secure.
🇺🇸 Today, leaders from the Organization of Agreement States and the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors briefed the Commission on state regulatory perspectives, including state to state assistance, fusion machine sources and advanced reactor dose modeling.
Advanced nuclear developers are aiming to have small modular reactors online by the 2030s, if not sooner.
It's an ambitious timeline as there aren't any operational in the U.S., but the country's top regulator thinks its possible.
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