NRC Hearings on New Reactor Licenses to Proceed, Jaczko Says
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The U.S. will move ahead with the licensing process for new nuclear power plants as it reviews the safety of existing reactors after Japan’s crisis, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said.
“As early as late summer, the commission may conduct the first mandatory hearings on new reactor licenses since the 1970s,” Jaczko said today at a hearing of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. Environmental groups sought to halt the process pending a U.S. investigation of reactor safety.