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NRC outlines security requirements, DBT and rulemaking for small modular reactors
Summary
An NRC regional liaison told the Wyoming Minerals committee about the agency's physical security framework — anchored in 10 CFR Part 73 and the 'design basis threat' — and described ongoing rulemaking to scale security requirements for smaller and advanced reactors.
Ryan Alexander, regional State and Government Liaison Officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Region IV office, gave the committee a high‑level briefing on federal security requirements for fixed nuclear facilities and on NRC rulemaking for next‑generation reactors.
Alexander told lawmakers that the underpinning of NRC security requirements is contained in Title 10, Part 73 of the Code of Federal Regulations and centers on the ‘‘design basis threat’’ (DBT), the agency's term for the set of capabilities that a licensee must defend against. He said licensees must design, maintain and have NRC oversight of systems that "provide a high assurance that…
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