The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is to issue a final rule and regulatory guide for emergency preparedness requirements for small modular reactors and other new nuclear technologies.
The regulator said in a statement the new rule applies “risk-informed, performance-based” emergency preparedness requirements to SMRs and other new technologies including non-light-water reactors, research and test reactors and medical radioisotope facilities.
The new rule essentially modernises emergency planning for advanced reactors, simplifying one of the many steps needed to bring a new generation of new reactors online.