Agreement State Program

Agreement State programs were developed to bring a modicum of control to the state level, but they do not cover all handling of nuclear materials. For instance, all import and export of nuclear materials is controlled by the NRC, as is the constmction of any nuclear material production or utilization facility. Many waste disposal issues also fall under the aegis of the NRC. The NRC has the ultimate authority to control all nuclear materials deemed pertinent to the defense and security of the United States. More information on NRC and Agreement State regulations is online at http //www.hsrd.ornl.gov/nrc/index.html (Dec. 2005). 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "Final Task Force Report on the Agreement States Program," NUREG-0388 (1977), p. A-53 AEC-R 88/4 (23 Feb. 1962), AEC/NRC Southern Interstate Nuclear Board, The Atom in the South Story of Leadership and Achievement (report to the Southern Governors Conference, 1962). 

The NRC issues licenses for the facilities noted and the operators of those facilities. Licenses may also be issued by individual state governments under NRC-approved regulatory programs. There are more than 8500 such licenses under the NRC s jurisdiction and approximately 15,000 under the jurisdiction of Agreement States, which regulate certain radioactive materials under agreements with the NRC. As of 1996, there are 109 licensed commercial nuclear power reactors in the United States, located at 71 sites in 33 states (see Nuclear REACTORS). However, several of these facilities are only partially constructed and further construction has been deferred. There are more than 5300 licensed nuclear power plant operators in the United States, each licensed for a specific reactor. Every operator must be requalified before renewal of a six-year license (14,15). 

ORNL. 1998. State program directory. Agreement states. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Health Sciences Research Division, http //www.hsrd.ornl.gov/nrc/agstates.htm. ... 

Agreement States States that have programs to assume partial NRC regulatory authority under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. This authority includes licensing and regulating radioactive byproduct materials source materials (uranium and thorium) and special nuclear materials. 

The evaluation of the reaction time results was done in the same way as in the healthy subjects. The programs FPM31e and FPM26f58 were used to get the four elementary times of the right-handed and the left-handed auditory pathways as well as the visual ones. The elementary times were selected by rules of agreement stated below. 

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