NRC Considers Regulatory Approaches for Fusion Energy

NRC Considers Regulatory Approaches for Fusion Energy

ByAndrew

In a meeting at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) on Tuesday, November 8, the Department of Energy, representatives of Agreement States, and private industry agreed that the regulation of fusion energy should be separated from the regulation of nuclear fission. Members of the FIA and the NRC staff discussed how an approach to fusion energy…

FIA Submits Letters to the Treasury, Urging Fusion Tax Equality with Clean Energy

FIA Submits Letters to the Treasury, Urging Fusion Tax Equality with Clean Energy

ByAndrew

The Fusion Industry Association wrote letters (embedded below) in response to the Treasury Department’s Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) requests for comment on implementing the “Energy Security Tax Credits for Manufacturing” (Notice 2022-47) and on “Certain Energy Generation Incentives” (Notice 2022-49) as enacted in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. In these letters, the FIA and…

Fast-tracking fusion energy: Fusion could create the clean energy the world needs, but scientists are divided on the best approach

Fast-tracking fusion energy: Fusion could create the clean energy the world needs, but scientists are divided on the best approach

ByCarolyn

When the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) sparked a fusion reaction that generated 1.35 megajoules (MJ) of energy, enough to power the typical American household for around 20 minutes, the fusion community rejoiced. For years, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory facility had been firing intensely powerful laser pulses at peppercorn-sized fuel pellets to claw…