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Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Strategy Needed to Develop a Risk-Informed Safety Approach

T-RCED-99-71 Published: Feb 04, 1999. Publicly Released: Feb 04, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the actions the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has taken to move from its traditional regulatory approach to an approach that considers risk in conjunction with engineering analyses and operating experience-termed risk-informed regulation, focusing on the: (1) issues that NRC needs to resolve to implement a risk-informed regulatory approach; (2) status of NRC's efforts to make two of its oversight programs--overall plant safety assessments and enforcement-risk-informed; and (3) major management challenges that NRC faces.

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