NRC has significantly reduced its licensing action backlog

摘要

In roughly two years, NRC staff has reducedrnthe number of licensing actions more than arnyear old from 112 to 10, an NRC official saidrnFebruary 17.rnCongressional budget justificationrntimeliness metrics call for the completion of atrnleast 95% of all license actions within a year,rnEric Benner, deputy director of the division ofrnoperating reactor licensing in the agency’srnOffice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, saidrnduring a commission briefing on Project Aim,rnNRC’s plan to make the agency more effective and efficient without sacrificing safety.