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NRC Chairman Wright at INRA
NRC Chairman David Wright, center, meets with regulatory counterparts from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden and the U.K. as part of an International Nuclear Regulators Association meeting in Paris.
NRC at Nuclear Energy Institute Conference
NRC Division Director Shana Helton, center right, speaks at a Nuclear Energy Institute conference on the NRC’s implementation of the ADVANCE Act, including the agency’s updated mission statement, and improvements in regulatory efficiency.
NRC Region III Inspectors at Quad Cities
NRC Region III inspectors check the Quad Cities nuclear power plant’s examination of a safety-related pump designed to provide water to cool the reactor in case of an incident. The inspectors independently verified that the plant’s examination, designed to make sure there were no defects in the pump weld, was done correctly.
NRC TTC Instructors Visit Bulgaria
During a recent training course in Bulgaria, Jeff Sollars, an instructor at the NRC’s Technical Training Center, discusses the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor control room with regulators from five European countries that are developing or expanding their nuclear power programs
NRC Staff at Diablo Canyon
Two NRC Region IV health physicists, Bernadette Baca (left) and John O’Donnell (right), work with headquarters-based reactor inspector, Jared Nadel (center), at Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, to discuss how a sample of metal pulled from the Unit 1 reactor will be tested for neutron embrittlement.
NRC Commissioner Marzano Tours Kairos
NRC Commissioner Matthew Marzano center, tours Kairos Power’s Albuquerque engineering center, with Kairos Power employees Drew Peebles, second from left, and Craig Mayberry, on the right, and accompanied by his staffer, Steven Lynch. Kairos has three constructions permits from the NRC to build test reactors in Tennessee, using its molten salt technology. Photo courtesy of Kairos Power