Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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- proper noun
- /ˈnjuːklɪər ˈrɛɡjʊlətɔri kəˈmɪʃən/
- Formal
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Comisión Reguladora Nuclear
- In the early 1990s, new designs approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission promised to be much safer and more easily maintained than today's nuclear fission power plants.
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved licenses
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved
Examples
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says an "unusual event" was declared around 7.
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The group consists of ASME, IEEE, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, and other leading industry groups and experts.
Academic text (2005) -
I called up the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has placed the nation's nuclear plants on their highest level of security.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for use in the United States.
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In February, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved licenses.
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A consortium of utilities has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to build a private storage facility on the Goshute Indian reservation in Utah.
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Once the vulnerability of welds was discovered, however, it meant intense and repeated scrutiny of all welds by licensing and inspection bodies like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Academic text (2012) -
"We are left," Dyson says, "with a very small number of reactor types, each of them frozen into a huge bureaucratic organization that makes any substantial change impossible, each of them less safe than many possible alternative designs which have been discarded." The Bush administration has spent $200 million since 2001 on developing designs for the "next generation" of reactors, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved three new reactor designs.
Academic text (2007) -
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversees the safety regulations for nuclear power plants.
Synonyms
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A United States government group that gives permission and makes rules for nuclear power plants
Surface Forms
Morphology
nuclear + regulatory + commission
Each constituent—'nuclear' (relating to atomic energy), 'regulatory' (having authority to control or govern), and 'commission' (a formal committee or agency)—combines predictably to yield an agency that regulates nuclear matters. A B1 learner who knows these words can reliably infer that this is an official body overseeing nuclear safety and regulation.
Etymology
Nuclear Regulatory Commission is a government group whose name shows its job: nuclear (nuclear power), regulatory ('making rules'), and commission ('a group in charge'), so it sets safety rules and checks power plants to protect people.