Regulation & Permitting Panel: Regulatory acceleration and alignment: Evolving frameworks to build confidence, consistency, and accelerated nuclear deployment
- NRC licensing reform: upcoming rulemakings, Part 53 modernization, and streamlined environmental reviews
- Managing regulatory backlogs: understanding the pipeline of approvals and bottlenecks
- Harmonizing permitting across state, federal, and tribal jurisdictions between NRC, DOE, FERC, and state regulators to improve consistency and predictability
- Supporting innovation: regulatory frameworks for advanced and non-LWR reactor technologies
- Creating regulatory certainty through standard contract frameworks for fuel, safety systems, materials compliance and export standards
- Harmonizing domestic and international standards to enable scalable design and manufacturing
- Managing liability, waste, and long-term stewardship within evolving regulatory models
- Leveraging incentives, tax credits, and government programs to accelerate permitting and project delivery
- Lessons from the NRC, CNSC, and other global regulators on enabling safe, efficient deployment
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