The NRC has released an overview of its most significant agency reorganization since 1987. The effort is “designed to streamline decision-making, consolidate functions, and enhance alignment with national priorities for the safe…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
The NRC is codifying a sea change to its regulations regarding foreign ownership, control, or domination (FOCD) of utilization or production facilities. On April 26, 2026, the NRC issued a direct final rule and a companion…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
The NRC recently reissued a final rule to insert a conditional sunset date into the aircraft impact assessment (AIA) requirements of 10 CFR § 50.150 in response to Executive Order 14270, Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to…
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The NRC recently approved the most substantial revisions to the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) since its April 1, 2000 implementation. In SRM-SECY-26-0014, the Commission approved revisions to the ROP’s baseline inspection…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently issued a final rule, effective April 29, 2026, amending its regulations governing categorical exclusions for certain actions. As defined by the National Environmental Policy Act…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
The NRC (or the Commission) issued a proposed rule on February 26, 2026 to regulate commercial fusion under its byproduct material framework rather than as a traditional nuclear power reactor. These regulations aim to provide…
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The NRC’s Office of Investigations recently published its Annual Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, summarizing its activities from October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025. In FY 2025, OI opened 90 cases, a 9% increase from FY…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Labor & Employment Law
The NRC has issued a Federal Register notice confirming the January 8, 2026 effective date of its direct final rule implementing the requirements of Executive Order 14270, Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American…
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The NRC saw major staffing transitions in 2025, including an unprecedented number of vacancies at the senior staff level. As 2026 kicks off, the Commission has returned to a full slate of five, and the agency has filled…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing the reclassification of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This reclassification, along with the growing number of states that allow medical…
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/ Administrative Law, Agriculture, Energy & Utilities, Health, Labor & Employment Law
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (the NDAA) was signed into law by US President Donald Trump on December 18, 2025. Through the NDAA, the US Congress sets the year’s policy direction for the US Armed…
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/ Elections & Politics, Energy & Utilities, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade, Military Law
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently released Draft Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DSS-ISG-2025-XX, Treatment of Certain Loss-of-Coolant Accident Locations as Beyond-Design-Basis Accidents. The draft guidance, if adopted,…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Science, Computers, & Technology
On November 18, 2025, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its Staff Requirements Memorandum for SECY-24-0009, which proposed changes to the NRC Enforcement Policy governing regulated materials and civil penalties. The…
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/ Administrative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Energy & Utilities
The White House recently issued an executive order establishing the “Genesis Mission,” a US Department of Energy (DOE)-led initiative aimed at accelerating scientific discovery using advanced AI. Nuclear energy was specifically…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Science, Computers, & Technology
Under the auspices of Section 5 of Executive Order 14300, Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published on November 26, 2025 an immediately effective final rule,…
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