Sec. 4. Agency coordination
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The NRC and the Department shall enter into the a memorandum of understanding regarding the following topics: Ensuring that the Department has sufficient technical expertise to support the civilian nuclear industry’s timely development and commercial deployment of safe, innovative advanced reactor technology and the NRC has sufficient technical expertise to support the evaluation of applications for licenses, permits, and design certifications, and other requests for regulatory approval for advanced reactors.
The use of computers and software codes to calculate the behavior and performance of advanced reactors based on mathematical models of their physical behavior. Ensuring that the Department maintains and develops the facilities to support the civilian nuclear industry’s timely development and commercial deployment of safe, innovative reactor technology and ensuring that the NRC has access to such facilities, as needed.