Through a program knowan as IRAP-the Industrial Research Assistance Program-the NRC provides grants and financial support to business ' looking to bring new and innovative technologies to the market Recently, the NRC gave a high-value grant to a small jewellery company, Dimples Fingerprint Jewellery, for its innovative maunfacturing process and use of green technologies

Angry that Met Ed had not informed them before conducting a steam venting from the plant, and convinced that the company was downplaying the severity of the accident, state officials turned to the NRC.

He further wrote: " We didn't learn for years — until the reactor vessel was physically opened — that by the time the plant operator called the NRC at about 8 am, roughly ½ of the uranium fuel had already melted.

Post-TMI surveys have shown that less than 50 % of the American public were satisfied with the way the accident was handled by Pennsylvania State officials and the NRC, and people surveyed were even less pleased with the utility ( General Public Utilities ) and the plant designer.

Kimberly and Richard ask Godell if he'll come clean at NRC hearings, being held at Point Conception, where Foster-Sullivan is looking to build another nuclear plant.

A 1986 Congressional report found that NRC staff had provided valuable technical assistance to the utility seeking an operating license for the controversial Seabrook plant.

San Clemente Green, an environmental group opposed to the continued operation of the San Onofre Nuclear Plant, says that instead of being a watchdog, the NRC too often rules in favor nuclear plant operators.

In October 2010, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy signed a memorandum of understanding with the operators of the Department of Energy's Savannah River site, which should allow the construction of a demonstration plant based on the company's S-PRISM fast breeder reactor prior to the design receiving full NRC licensing approval.

The NRC stated that the remaining cooling tower had enough capacity to allow the plant to operate at full output, however, until September 16, 2007 the reactor was kept at 50 % power.

NRC initially recorded at WGST Radio studios, until stock sales allowed NRC to set up its record pressing plant, record distributorship, and recording studio, with Ray Stevens, Joe South and Jerry Reed as the staff band.

During the first three years NRC was in business, the company included a record pressing plant, a record distributorship, as well as a recording studio, which boasted a studio band that included NRC artists Ray Stevens, Jerry Reed, and Joe South.

After a fire, which heavily damaged a part of the studio and office located in the former Brookhaven ( Atlanta ) Elementary School, NRC moved from this original location at 1214 Fernwood Circle to 2871 East Ponce de Leon Avenue, where it operated under Storey's ownership until c. 1970 as a record pressing plant.

As new automated record pressing equipment made the NRC plant outdated, Storey closed the plant around 1970.

The NRC responds that the newer requirements were put in place after the plant was complete.

Richard Webster, attorney for the groups, claims the NRC did not have sufficient information to determine whether the plant can operate safely for the next 20 years.

Early in 2011, the NRC issued its annual review of the plant, identifying improvements but noting that in the area of human performance, " corrective actions to date have not resulted in sustained and measurable improvement ”.

In September 2012, Allison Macfarlane, the NRC Chairwoman, said that plant will be down for a prolonged period, and that the fuel from Unit 3 will be removed in September 2012, due to significant damage to the unit ; Southern California Edison stated, through its spokeswoman, that it is planning to send a restarting plan for NRC approval in October 2012.

In July the NRC issued its final report, identifying ten issues that need followup and stating “ the plant will not be permitted to restart until the licensee has developed a plan to prevent further steam generator tube degradation and the NRC independently verifies that it can be operated safely .” In August, Southern California Edison announced plans to lay off about one-third of the plant's workforce, leading to speculation that the facility may never fully reopen.

A $ 100, 000 fine was issued on February 27, 1997 due to problems with excessive silt build up in two separate locations at the Byron facility ; the NRC fined the plant $ 50, 000 for each problem.

The NRC levied an additional $ 55, 000 in fines in October 1997 when the plant failed technical specifications surveillance guidelines.

" As of 2007, the last NRC Escalated Enforcement Action against the Bryon Station came in 2005 when an engineer deliberately falsified surveillance reports to show he had completed work that was incomplete, though the plant could have been fined up to $ 60, 000 the NRC chose not to impose the fine.

On March 22, 2011, the day after the NRC issued Vermont Yankee's license extension, Vermont's congressional delegation — Senator Patrick Leahy ( D ), Senator Bernie Sanders ( I ), and Representative Peter Welch ( D )— issued a joint statement decrying the NRC's action and noting the similarity of Vermont Yankee to units then in partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power station, Japan.

After receiving his Ph. D., he returned to Hull and began working for the NRC in Ottawa again.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at D. C. Cook was 1 in 83, 333, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.

NRC is intended to be a simplified acoustical rating of room construction and finish materials when the acoustical objectives of the space are less than sensitive.

The SAA is a single-number rating of sound absorption properties of a material similar to NRC, except that the sound absorption values employed in the averaging are taken at the twelve one-third octave bands from 200 Hz to 2500 Hz, inclusive, and rounding is to the nearest multiple of 0. 01.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a modified version of the NRC Telephone Talking Clock was transmitted over television channel CPAC while the House of Commons was not sitting.

Despite early hit records such as " Robbin ' The Cradle " by Tony Bellus, as well as manufacturing and distribution of other labels, NRC was forced into bankruptcy in April, 1961.

Country music artists who saw early efforts released on NRC included Sonny James, Dave Dudley and David Houston.

There is an international interest in independent labels in rock and roll's early years, as well as the jazz artists who appeared on the NRC albums.

This process was invented in the early 1940s by Dr. Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon of the Canadian National Research Council ( NRC ).

In the late 1980s, the NRC ' created a policy ' of non-enforcement by asserting its discretion not to enforcement with license conditions ; between September 1989 and 1994, the ' NRC has either waived or chosen not to enforce regulations at nuclear power reactors over 340 times '.

On September 1, 2010, NRC Research Press became a private company called Canadian Science Publishing and is no longer directly affiliated with CISTI or the NRC.

Bjarni V. Tryggvason ( born September 21, 1945 ) is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC / CSA astronaut.

The decision was made after the NRC discovered that electrical relays in a diesel generator did not function during tests in July and September 2006.

On September 23, 2007, Friends United for Sustainable Energy ( FUSE ) filed legal papers with the NRC opposing the relicensing of the Indian Point 2 reactor.

In September 2008, NPPD applied to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) for a renewal of the operating license for CNS, extending it for an additional twenty years.

On September 25, 2008, Entergy filed a Combined Construction and Operating License ( COL ) application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) for a new nuclear reactor at River Bend, of the 1, 550 MWe Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor ( ESBWR ) type.

On September 24, 2007, NRG Energy filed a full application with the NRC to build two Toshiba ABWRs at the South Texas Project site.

In September 2008, Detroit Edison filed an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) for a Combined Construction and Operating License ( COL ) for a third reactor.

On September 25, 2007, NRG Energy and CPS Energy submitted a Construction and Operations License ( COL ) request for these plants with the NRC.