Industry Calls on NRC to Address Post-Fukushima Cumulative Effects of Regulation

Industry Calls on NRC to Address Post-Fukushima Cumulative Effects of Regulation

by vbarq

The following news article originally appeared in NEI’s Nuclear Energy Overview.
Discussion of the cumulative effects of regulation on NRC licensees dominated a panel at last week’s NEI Licensing Forum, with the views of the industry’s commercial nuclear energy and fuel cycle sectors well represented.
Alex Marion, NEI’s vice president for special projects, said that while the topic is not new, it has taken on a new urgency “when you consider the NRC regulatory actions taken and proposed for the Fukushima near-term task force recommendations.”

Marion reiterated the industry’s call for the NRC to develop a transparent process for assessing cumulative effects and to put together an integrated plan that includes all regulatory actions across the NRC.
He noted that a number of NRC initiatives have been pursued since the early 1990s to identify efficiencies in the regulatory process and reduce unnecessary regulatory burden, but these have not resulted in substantive changes.http://safetyfirst.nei.org/industry-actions/industry-calls-on-nrc-to-address-post-fukushima-cumulative-effects-of-regulation/