The NRC’s Reactor Licensing Process: An Overview. A NIRS briefing paper on how reactors are licensed and factors to consider in participating in the process. September 2006.

NIRS testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce on the NRC Reactor Oversight Process. June 19, 2006

Court Allows NRC to Hold Informal Public Hearings in Reactor Licensing Proceedings. But Court Makes Clear That Challenges Can Be Made. NIRS/Public Citizen press release. December 13, 2004. Read the decision in the PC/NIRS suit against the new Part 2 rules.

NIRS coalition opposes Michigan’s Cook nuclear power station relicensing application:
Press Release on Opposition to Cook License Renewal, December 08, 2004.
Comments to the NRC on License renewal.

We Can’t Solve the Nuclear Waste Problem If We Keep Making More. Environmental Working Group published a new web site in October 2004 about how the Nuclear Power Relapse has already begun, in the form of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission numerous and accelerating rubberstamps for 20 year license extensions at old, deteriorating reactors. 20 year license extensions guarantee that vast amounts of high-level radioactive waste will remain at reactor sites indefinitely into the future, even if a national repository is opened and filled to its legal capacity. http://www.ewg.org