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NRC Approves Holtec's Alternative Plan to Remove Tilted Fuel Assembly at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant

About two weeks after the fuel loading incident at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert, Mich., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved Holtec International's emergency License Amendment Request (LAR), allowing the use of custom-designed specialized equipment to remove the tilted fuel assembly from the reactor pressure vessel. The NRC stated that because the incident has halted the plant's fuel loading operations and part of the restart work, this license amendment was reviewed and issued under emergency conditions...

2026-10-17

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Proposed Rule to Update Radioactive Material Transport Regulations for New Reactor Technologies

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a proposed rule aimed at updating regulations for the transport of radioactive material to accommodate the development of new reactor technologies. The existing regulatory framework has not fully kept pace with advances in nuclear technology, particularly as microreactors and other advanced reactor types present new challenges to current rules. Approximately three million packages containing radioactive material are transported across the United States each year, and this vast logistics operation has been managed by federal agencies for decades. The NRC's proposed rule addresses a specific issue: how to safely transport new types of nuclear reactors and their associated radioactive materials. Microreactors are compact, factory-manufactured...

2026-08-03