Oklo makes progress towards submitting future license applications with the submission of its Licensing Project Plan.
The Licensing Project Plan details licensing pre-application interactions with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Oklo’s submission of its Licensing Project Plan represents an important step in establishing plans to align on regulatory topics to enable success in meeting subsequent application review milestones, impacting how quickly the U.S. can deploy climate technologies at home.
The licensing methodology reports comprise the novel methods used by Oklo to submit its historic advanced fission license application and are a key component of Step 1 of its two-step licensing review.
The regulatory framework has historically been based on large light-water reactors in terms of how event analysis is performed and how safety is assured.
The reports discuss how advanced fission systems can meet key regulatory requirements with inherent safety, including how to analyze for unique events and how safety can be assured in a modern, holistic way through controls related to safety function.
The reports are public, and Oklo is enabling the open-source use of these methodologies.