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In February 2020, NEI submitted comments to the Maryland Senate Finance Committee on the Clean and Renewable Energy Standard (CARES) proposal.

NEI letter to Senate leadership, dated Dec. 23, 2019, encouraging support for the Nuclear Powers America Act. The letter highlights the importance of an investment tax credit for operating nuclear reactors in reducing carbon emissions.

Micro-reactors are very small nuclear reactors that are well suited to serve the power needs for markets that currently do not have access to clean, reliable, resilient and affordable energy, including remote areas and micro-grids. Micro-reactor technology and designs are rapidly maturing and the first micro-reactor applications are expected to be submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2020. The purpose of this report is to discuss changes in the way micro-reactors are licensed and regulated. This also identifies the need to address several policy and technical issues. Timely NRC consideration and feedback on the policy and technical issues associated with a performance-based, consequence-oriented regulatory framework is needed to inform design of micro reactors as well as business decisions affecting licensing and certification of micro-reactors over the next few years.

The process will allow licensees to make a radiological significance threshold determination for low levels of residual radioactivity, where the residual radioactivity does not challenge meeting the future license termination criterion of 10 CFR 20.1402 (25 mrem/yr) or state criterion for release.

Both the industry and the government responded swiftly and decisively to the TMI 2 accident, with the industry establishing INPO. Decades of research and scientific studies have shown no negative health effects on the population surrounding the plant.

The 2011 nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi and the 1986 incident at Chernobyl were both rated 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, but the accidents were starkly different in their cause, the governments’ response and health effects.

If we want to protect the climate, we need to support nuclear carbon-free energy with smarter regulations at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

NEI’s Principles for Clean Energy Policies demonstrate the measures necessary to provide a technology-neutral solution to climate change.

This efficiency bulletin will establish a streamlined and graded approach to the design change process.

A comment letter submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Fuel Working Group with recommendations which will help the U.S. maintain its leadership in the development and operation of civilian nuclear energy facilities, ensure ready access to a robust fuel supply chain, and facilitate U.S. innovation by removing barriers to commercializing additional peaceful uses of nuclear energy here and abroad.

In an unprecedented show of force, a growing and diverse group is standing behind nuclear as a key piece of the climate solution. These groups include Google, UN IPCC and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

In July 2019, NEI and IBEW wrote a letter to Chairman Tonko and Ranking Member Shimkus of the Subcommittee on Environment & Climate Change on nuclear energy,