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NRC Regulations Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations

Requirements binding on all persons and organizations who receive a license from NRC to use nuclear materials or operate nuclear facilities

Effective Dates | Federal Register Notices | Rulemaking

See also NRC's regulations, Title 10, Chapter I, of the Code of Federal Regulations, Volume 1 (Parts 1 – 50) and Volume 2 (Parts 51 – 199) which the Government Publishing Office maintains and updates annually.

Standards Incorporated By Reference into Chapter I of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations

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Chapter I -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Part

Title

Part 1

Statement of organization and general information

Part 2

Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure

Part 4

Nondiscrimination in Federally assisted programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance from the Commission

Part 5

Nondiscrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance

Part 7

Advisory committees

Part 8

[Reserved]

Part 9

Public records

Part 10

Criteria and procedures for determining eligibility for access to restricted data or national security information or an employment clearance

Part 11

Criteria and procedures for determining eligibility for access to or control over special nuclear material

Part 12

Implementation of the Equal Access to Justice Act in agency proceedings

Part 13

Program fraud civil remedies

Part 14

Administrative claims under Federal Tort Claims Act

Part 15

Debt collection procedures

Part 16

Salary offset procedures for collecting debts owed by Federal employees to the Federal government

Part 19

Notices, instructions and reports to workers: inspection and investigations

Part 20

Standards for protection against radiation

Part 21

Reporting of defects and noncompliance

Part 25

Access authorization

Part 26

Fitness for duty programs

Part 30

Rules of general applicability to domestic licensing of byproduct material

Part 31

General domestic licenses for byproduct material

Part 32

Specific domestic licenses to manufacture or transfer certain items containing byproduct material

Part 33

Specific domestic licenses of broad scope for byproduct material

Part 34

Licenses for industrial radiography and radiation safety requirements for industrial radiographic operations

Part 35

Medical use of byproduct material

Part 36

Licenses and radiation safety requirements for irradiators

Part 37

Physical protection of category 1 and category 2 quantities of radioactive material

Part 39

Licenses and radiation safety requirements for well logging

Part 40

Domestic licensing of source material

Part 50

Domestic licensing of production and utilization facilities

Part 51

Environmental protection regulations for domestic licensing and related regulatory functions

Part 52

Licenses, certifications, and approvals for nuclear power plants

Part 53

[Reserved]

Part 54

Requirements for renewal of operating licenses for nuclear power plants

Part 55

Operators' licenses

Part 60

Disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in geologic repositories

Part 61

Licensing requirements for land disposal of radioactive waste

Part 62

Criteria and procedures for emergency access to non-federal and regional low-level waste disposal facilities

Part 63

Disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Part 70

Domestic licensing of special nuclear material

Part 71

Packaging and transportation of radioactive material

Part 72

Licensing requirements for the independent storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, and reactor-related greater than Class C waste

Part 73

Physical protection of plants and materials

Part 74

Material control and accounting of special nuclear material

Part 75

Safeguards on nuclear material—implementation of safeguards agreements between the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency

Part 76

Certification of gaseous diffusion plants

Part 81

Standard specifications for the granting of patent licenses

Part 95

Facility security clearance and safeguarding of national security information and restricted data

Part 100

Reactor site criteria

Part 110

Export and import of nuclear equipment and material

Part 140

Financial protection requirements and indemnity agreements

Part 150

Exemptions and continued regulatory authority in Agreement States and in offshore waters under section 274

Part 160

Trespassing on Commission property

Part 170

Fees for facilities, materials, import and export licenses, and other regulatory services under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended

Part 171

Annual fees for reactor licenses and fuel cycle licenses and materials licenses, including holders of certificates of compliance, registrations, and quality assurance program approvals and government agencies licensed by the NRC

Parts 172-199

[Reserved]

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Friday, September 19, 2025

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Friday, September 19, 2025