2026-09-15 8:01 PM UTC / 路透社
作者：弗朗索瓦·墨菲
2026年9月15日 晚上8:01 UTC 更新于2小时前
- 概要
- 规则修改旨在加快电力输出提升速度
- 监管机构称18个月的目标不会凌驾于安全之上
- 智库称美国核管会独立性已被削弱
- 核管会负责人驳斥该说法
维也纳，9月15日（路透社）——美国核电监管机构的规则改革是将新反应堆审批时间缩短至18个月的举措之一，其主席周二对路透社表示，改革将持续至明年甚至更久。目前特朗普政府正寻求到2050年将美国核电产能提升三倍。
为应对电动汽车、数据中心和加密货币挖矿带来的电力需求激增，美国核管理委员会正在进行一系列改革，旨在简化新核设施的 licensing 流程。该机构此前已提议缩小环境审查范围，并修改一项保护民众免受辐射危害的规则。
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“我认为改革将持续至明年之后，”在联合国核监督机构大会（成员国年度会议）间隙接受采访时，被问及改革还将持续多久时，核管会主席何·聂（Ho Nieh）如此说道。
“你将看到一些最终规则在今年年底至明年年初期间发表于《联邦公报》，并且改革将持续到整个下一年度，”他补充道。
更多计划中的改革内容包括为微型反应堆制定监管框架。微型反应堆是小型工厂预制核电厂，开发商称其便于运输，美国陆军希望未来能用它们为偏远设施供电。
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聂表示，核管正越来越接近将新设施审批时间控制在18个月内的目标，但不会不惜一切代价达成这一目标。
“这些是我们给自己设定的挑战目标，但如果不安全，我们就不会发布审批决定。如果需要更多时间才能完成，我们就会花更多时间来推进。我相信工作人员在这方面会做出正确判断，”他说。
此前，新核设施的审批许可往往需要数年时间。
核管会捍卫独立性
特朗普去年签署了四项关于核电的行政命令，旨在缩短审批时间。
周二发布的一份全球核安全报告中，智库核威胁倡议组织称，这些行政命令“损害了核管会的政治独立性和监督权威”，其中包括要求将监管修改提交白宫审批。
聂驳斥了这一说法。
“我们的独立性没有任何削弱。我们是联邦政府的一部分。和所有行政部门机构一样，我们遵循政府制定的总体政策，”聂说。
“我们制定并拥有自己的监管决策，这一点从未改变。所以我知道说核管会不独立是挑衅性的说法，但我驳斥这一断言，因为我身处其中。我亲眼目睹了发生的一切。”
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US nuclear regulator’s overhaul of rules to run well into 2027, its chief says
2026-09-15 8:01 PM UTC / Reuters
By Francois Murphy
September 15, 2026 8:01 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
The logo of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is shown on the podium at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Staion in Carlsbad, California September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake/ File Photo
- Summary
- Rules being changed to speed up boost in power output
- Regulator says 18-month target will not override safety
- Think tank says NRC’s independence has been weakend
- NRC chief rejects that claim
VIENNA, Sept 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. nuclear power regulator’s overhaul of rules, part of a push to cut approval times for new reactors to 18 months, will continue well into next year, its chairman told Reuters on Tuesday, as the Trump administration seeks to quadruple the country’s nuclear capacity by 2050.
To help meet power demand surging from electric vehicles, data centers and crypto mining, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is making a series of changes aimed at streamlining the licensing of new facilities. It has already proposed narrowing the scope of environmental reviews and changing a rule protecting people from radiation.
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“I would say well into next year,” NRC Chairman Ho Nieh said in an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s General Conference, an annual meeting of member states, when asked how much longer the overhaul would continue.
“You’re going to see some final rules be published in the Federal Register toward the end of this year, into early next year, and deeper into next calendar year,” he added.
Further planned changes include a regulatory framework for microreactors, tiny factory-built nuclear plants that developers say will be easily transported, and which the U.S. Army hopes will one day power remote installations.
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The NRC is getting closer to its target of approving new facilities within 18 months, but will not do so at any cost, he said.
“Those are timelines we are challenging ourselves to meet, but we will not issue a decision if it’s not safe. And if it’s something that has to take more time, we will take more time to do it. I trust staff to exercise those judgments in doing that,” he said.
Licensing approvals for new nuclear facilities have previously taken several years.
NRC DEFENDS INDEPENDENCE
Trump last year signed four executive orders on nuclear power that seek to shorten the approval time.
In a report on global nuclear security published on Tuesday, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a think tank, said the orders had “compromised the political independence and oversight authority” of the NRC by, among other things, requiring changes in regulation to be submitted to the White House for approval.
Nieh rejected that assertion.
“There is no reduction in our independence. We are part of the federal government. Like all executive branch agencies, we follow the general policies set by the administration,” Nieh said.
“We make and we own our regulatory decisions, and that hasn’t changed. So I know it’s provocative to say that the NRC is not independent, but I reject that assertion because I’m in it. I see what’s happening.”
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Editing by Sanjeev Miglani
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