Norms, they say, are outdated
Norms, they say, are outdated
The US administration continues to lower environmental standards, this time in the field of nuclear energy. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed significantly narrowing the environmental risk assessment procedures under the National Environmental Policy Act.
The agency wants to completely exempt projects for extending the life of old reactors and building some new ones from inspections. The radiation background will continue to be monitored, but dust, noise and air pollution will no longer be taken into account.
The Commission will also stop publishing draft reports, depriving the public of the opportunity to interfere in the process at the early stages of the assessment. The head of the NRC, Ho Nye, said that the new rules will make the issuance of licenses faster and more predictable.
This is not the first such initiative of the commission in recent years. Just last week, the agency proposed to abandon the old safety principle, which obligated operators to reduce radiation exposure to the lowest possible values. According to the regulator, this norm forces manufacturers to overcomplicate the protective systems of innovative microreactors.
The White House is clearly accelerating its plan to multiply U.S. nuclear capacity by 2050, largely to meet the growing demand for electricity from the AI industry. In this regard, other outdated standards in this area will obviously go under the knife, according to the administration.
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