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Public Involvement in Reactor License Renewal

As with any licensing activity, the public has an opportunity to participate in NRC's decision making process with regard to license renewal. Guidance for the review process is based not only on NRC views, but on industry experience as well. Furthermore, the expertise of technical organizations and professional societies was used, as appropriate, during the development of the license renewal process. The public, in general, is also encouraged to participate in the process through public meetings, and public comment periods on rules, renewal guidance, and other documents. In addition, the public has an opportunity to request a formal adjudicatory hearing if that party would be adversely affected by the renewal.

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Public Meetings
Documents Available for Comment
Adjudicatory Process

Public Meetings

The public can keep abreast of NRC's reactor license renewal regulatory activities through a variety of open meetings, including commission meetings, advisory committee meetings, and staff meetings open to the public. For more information visit the About Meetings Open to the Public page.

Upcoming Public Meetings Schedule

Documents Available for Comment

The following table lists documents concerning Reactor License Renewal that have been issued for public comment. These documents are provided in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools page for more information. For successful viewing of PDF documents on our site please be sure to use the latest version of Adobe.

Document Number	Title	Date Published	Comment Deadline
NUREG-1437, Supplement 36	Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Power Plants Regarding Beaver Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2 - Draft Report for Comment	September 2008	December 17, 2008
NUREG-1437, Supplement 35	Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Power Plants Regarding Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2 - Draft Report for Comment	April 2008	July 21, 2008
NUREG-1437, Supplement 34	Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Power Plants Regarding Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 - Draft Report for Comment	April 2008	July 16, 2008
NUREG-1437, Supplement 33	Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Power Plants Regarding Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1 - Draft Report for Comment	December 2007	March 5, 2007
NUREG-1437, Supplement 32	Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Power Plants Regarding Wolf Creek Generating Station - Draft Report for Comment	September 2007	December 26, 2007

Adjudicatory Process

The NRC conducts hearings on disputed matters involved in the re-licensing of nuclear reactors. The NRC regulations that govern the hearing process are in Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings and Issuance of Orders (Part 2 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 2)).

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For more information, see our Public Involvement and Hearings page.