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Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan.

Analog to Digital: A Journey into the Digital Age

Sponsored by the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Since 2016, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the nuclear industry have engaged to modernize the NRC's instrumentation and controls (I&C) regulatory infrastructure. The cumulative effect of these modernization activities has provided significant advancements in the ability to implement digital I&C technology. For example, these activities will support the industry's transition from the use of analog to digital systems at nuclear power plants and support the NRC staff with reviewing and inspecting these digital modifications. This digital exhibit summarizes the individual modernization activities to improve the I&C regulatory infrastructure.

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