华盛顿，10月22日——美国核能监管机构周四完成了一项规则的最终制定，允许公司使用美国政府机构的示范项目数据，称这是自特朗普总统下令加快机构审查以来，对反应堆监管的首次重大变动。
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 - The US nuclear power regulator finalized a rule on Thursday allowing companies to use data from demonstration projects at US agencies, calling it the first major change to reactor regulations since President Donald Trump ordered faster agency reviews.
美国核监管委员会（NRC）的该规则现在将允许公司使用美国能源部和国防部的反应堆示范项目的分析、数据和信息，以支持预计将涌向NRC的高技术反应堆项目申请，包括小型模块化反应堆。
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission rule will now allow companies to use analyses, data and information from reactor demonstration projects at the US energy and defense departments to support an expected wave of applications to the NRC of high-tech reactor projects, including small modular reactors.
特朗普在2025年5月的指令要求NRC在18个月内完成新反应堆设计的批准，引发了对其政府削弱NRC独立性的批评。核电站使用放射性燃料，NRC在所有阶段对其进行监控。该机构还监测核反应堆的安全。
Trump's orders in May 2025 directed the NRC to finish approvals for new reactor designs within 18 months, igniting criticism that his administration was reducing the NRC's independence. Nuclear plants are powered by radioactive fuels the NRC monitors at all stages. The agency also monitors the safety of nuclear reactors.
NRC主席何尼（Ho Nieh）表示，该规则不会让项目规避其机构的严格标准。何尼对记者说：“这不是捷径，也不是妥协。”
NRC Chairman Ho Nieh said the rule will not allow projects to get around his agency's strict standards. "This is not a shortcut, this is not a compromise," Nieh told reporters.
何尼称，NRC的审查可能会在‘后果分析’方面更为严格，即对严重反应堆事故可能导致的场外放射性、健康或经济影响，或地震、龙卷风等自然事件带来的危害进行估算。
Nieh said NRC reviews could be more stringent on "consequence analysis," or estimations of potential offsite radiological, health or economic impacts of severe reactor accidents, or hazards from natural events like earthquakes or tornadoes.
核安全活动家、科学家联盟的物理学家埃德温·莱曼（Edwin Lyman）表示，NRC保持独立的安全和安保决定权至关重要，不能仅仅模仿其他机构的决定。
Nuclear safety activist and physicist Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists said it is critical that the NRC maintain its authority to make independent safety and security determinations and not simply ape the decisions of other agencies.
莱曼说：“尽管存在缺陷，NRC的许可程序仍比能源部和国防部的程序更为严格和透明。”
"For all their flaws, the NRC's licensing procedures are far more rigorous and transparent" than the energy and defense department procedures, Lyman said.