NRC History
Before the NRC was created, nuclear regulation was the responsibility of this organization
Who is the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)?
This Act passed with bipartisan support and signed into law in July 2024 requires the NRC to take a number of actions, particularly in the areas of licensing of new reactors and fuels, while maintaining the NRC’s core safety and security mission
What is The Advance Act of 2024?
This natural deterioration of materials via chemical or electrochemical reactions with their environment occurs continuously in a nuclear plant
What is Corrosion?
This is where you are! Two White Flint North
What is TWFN?
This nuclear disaster was triggered by a 50-foot tsunami
What is Fukushima?
Congress made this law which first made the development of nuclear energy possible
What is the Atomic Energy Act of 1954?
The NRC recently released a new licensing framework for this kind of reactor stemming from the Advance Act. Hint: This kind of reactor is simpler, conducive to higher-volume licensing, and generates from one to twenty megawatts of electricity.
What is the Microreactor
This colloquial term describes corrosion and wear products in the coolant that become radioactive when exposed to radiation
What is Crud?
This is your Office! It provides leadership and direction for NRC’s regulatory research program
What is RES?
Following the Fukushima disaster, NRC incorporated its lessons by expanding this method of estimating risk
What is Probability Risk Assessment (PRA)?
The Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 created this well-known agency.
What is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
NRC has developed a strategic plan to leverage this technology that develops computer systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This type of radiation has no charge and no mass
What is Gamma Radiation?
This is the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission technical report designation
What is a NUREG?
Although nature has reclaimed a zone after this nuclear disaster from decades ago, occasional forest fires still release lingering radiation into the smoke
What is Chernobyl?
NRC began emphasizing operator training and "human factors" in plant performance due to this event
What is 3-mile island?
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved the construction permit for TerraPower's Natrium reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming. This $10 billion, 345-megawatt fast reactor is the first commercial-scale, non-light-water advanced nuclear plant to receive this permit from the NRC in over 40 years. This reactor uses this medium as a coolant. (Hint: Part of the "Salt of the Earth"...)
What is sodium?
This medium causes neutrons to slow down increasing their likelihood of being captured by a stable nuclide resulting in a radioactive nuclide
What is Water?
This well-known NRC acronym represents the cloud-based learning management and performance platform used to track employee training. Yes you will be using it!
What is the Talent Management System (TMS)?
This nuclear plant suffered an early permanent closure in 2020 after a cluster of severe thunderstorms known as a derecho inflicted damage due to winds up to 130 mph. Hint: It is located in Palo, Iowa and is due to be back online in 2029.
What is the Duane Arnold Energy Center?
According to Warren Nyer, Volney “Bill” Wilson assembled an electrical panel that included a big red button. If an operator pushed it, this action became a well-known NRC acronym
What is a Scram?
The NRC is engaged with stakeholders to understand the regulatory considerations for this technology which unlike nuclear fission, does not produce long-lived radioactive waste
What is Nuclear Fusion?
This is the largest particle of radiation emitted from the nucleus
What is Alpha?
One of the more creative acronyms for the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Research Institute for Seismic Margin Assessment. Hint: Spell it out using the first 2 letters of the first word and then skipping "Kariwa".
What is KARISMA?
This abnormally warm zone of water in the North Pacific has the potential to impact the siting and operation of microreactors in Alaska by reshaping the environmental landscape. Hint: A 1950s movie featuring a carnivorous amoeboid alien which lands in Phoenixville, Pa and envelops a movie Theater. OH MY!
What is "The Blob"?