Canada and the U.S. are already embarking on regulatory cooperation, and this paper articulates the industry’s perspective on the long-term goals for such cooperation and additional near-term actions that our nations can take to achieve these goals. To be clear, regulatory cooperation extends beyond the national regulators, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), to include other government agencies, the nuclear industry and standards development organizations.
Strategic regulatory cooperation between Canada and the U.S. will help enable both nations to achieve the large-scale deployment of new nuclear power plants and enable both countries to achieve their national energy, climate, environmental, economic and national security goals.