The average NRC review took time for licensing new reactors took more than 20,000 hours. The issuance of a combined operating license took 48 to 60 months. Receiving a license amendment for power updates at existing facilities could mean waiting two and a half years. And far, far too often, innovators spent all this time pulling together all this paperwork just to be told no, all of that has changed. (03:49–03:55)
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Asserts that license amendments for power updates at existing facilities could take two and a half years.
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