A year after President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14300 directing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to cut red tape and speed nuclear deployment, the agency is claiming a string of historic firsts, a backlog of rules in motion at unprecedented scale, and an internal reorganization due to take effect next month.

In a news release marking the anniversary, the NRC tallied milestones it says are reshaping U.S. nuclear regulation for the first time in nearly half a century. Among them, the first commercial advanced reactor construction permit in decades, granted to TerraPower’s Kemmerer facility in Wyoming; the first-ever license to commercially manufacture TRistructural ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel, issued to TrisoX; the first-ever approval to restart a decommissioning reactor, at Palisades; 18 operating license renewals representing roughly 17 GW of generation; and the fastest-ever subsequent license renewal review, finishing the Robinson plant in less than 12 months.

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