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Environmental Center of Expertise

The ECOE performs environmental reviews of agency licensing actions required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other statutes to support NRC’s new, advanced, and operating reactors; non-power utilization facilities; and nuclear materials, including production of nuclear fuel used in commercial nuclear reactors.

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