Branch chief criticized LTA letter as a ‘new interpretation’ of requirements

摘要

An NRC branch chief in May criticized the agency’s draft letter to thernNuclear Energy Institute on the use of lead test assemblies, saying thernletter provides “a new interpretation, not a clarification” of regulatoryrnrequirements on the use of LTAs and would essentially exclude publicrninput by not requiring license amendments for their use.