Licensing & Oversight Process and License Renewal



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The NRC’s reactor licensing process is in disarray. NIRS briefing sheet. December 15, 2008 Testimony of Richard Webster, Legal Director for Eastern Environmental Law Center, before Senate Environment Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety. July 16, 2008. The testimony argues that the NRC's relicensing process is deficient and there are severe weaknesses in the oversight of reactor safety. The NRC’s Reactor Licensing Process: An Overview. A NIRS briefing paper on how reactors are licensed and factors to consider in participating in the process. September 2006.		In Details ...
		NIRS interventions against aging reactor license relicensing: Palisades License Extension Application Oyster Creek License Extension Application
NIRS testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce on the NRC Reactor Oversight Process. June 19, 2006 Court Allows NRC to Hold Informal Public Hearings in Reactor Licensing Proceedings. But Court Makes Clear That Challenges Can Be Made. NIRS/Public Citizen press release. December 13, 2004. Read the decision in the PC/NIRS suit against the new Part 2 rules. NIRS coalition opposes Michigan’s Cook nuclear power station relicensing application: Press Release on Opposition to Cook License Renewal, December 08, 2004. Comments to the NRC on License renewal. We Can’t Solve the Nuclear Waste Problem If We Keep Making More. Environmental Working Group published a new web site in October 2004 about how the Nuclear Power Relapse has already begun, in the form of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission numerous and accelerating rubberstamps for 20 year license extensions at old, deteriorating reactors. 20 year license extensions guarantee that vast amounts of high-level radioactive waste will remain at reactor sites indefinitely into the future, even if a national repository is opened and filled to its legal capacity. http://www.ewg.org Government Admits Each Nuclear Reactor Relicensing Expected to Kill 12 People, July 31, 2001. NIRS' comments on NRC generic license renewal rules, October 2000.