NRC Terminates Rulemaking re Special Nuclear Material Accounting

In April 2019, it was announced that all five members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted unanimously to terminate a decade-long, multimillion dollar program to update federal regulations on material control and accounting (MC&A) of special nuclear materials. “The Commission has disapproved the draft final rule,” stated NRC Commission Secretary Annette Vietti-Cook in an April 3 memorandum to NRC …

NRC Proposes FY 2020 Budget to Congress

On March 11, 2019, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that the agency is proposing to Congress a budget of $921 million for fiscal year (FY) 2020.  The request is $10 million higher than the FY 2019 budget, reflecting 44 fewer full-time equivalent (FTE) employees. Overview The increase in the FY 2020 request takes into account the inclusion of …