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Instead, they voted to reserve the right to consider each proposed new safeguard separately under the agency's rules on "backfitting," the term for when a nuclear plant is modified or its operating procedures are changed.

Elliott Negin: A Philosophical Split at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Elliott Negin 2012

A case-by-case approach under the backfitting rule could doom some of the Near-Term Task Force recommendations.

Elliott Negin: A Philosophical Split at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Elliott Negin 2012

A case-by-case approach under the backfitting rule could doom some of the Near-Term Task Force recommendations.

Elliott Negin: A Philosophical Split at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Elliott Negin 2012

According to the rule, if the commission does not consider a proposed regulation necessary for adequate protection, the commission "shall require the backfitting of a facility only when it determines ... there is a substantial increase in the overall protection of the public health and safety ... and that the direct and indirect costs of implementation for that facility are justified in view of this increased protection."

Elliott Negin: A Philosophical Split at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Elliott Negin 2012

According to the rule, if the commission does not consider a proposed regulation necessary for adequate protection, the commission "shall require the backfitting of a facility only when it determines ... there is a substantial increase in the overall protection of the public health and safety ... and that the direct and indirect costs of implementation for that facility are justified in view of this increased protection."

Elliott Negin: A Philosophical Split at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Elliott Negin 2012

Instead, they voted to reserve the right to consider each proposed new safeguard separately under the agency's rules on "backfitting," the term for when a nuclear plant is modified or its operating procedures are changed.

Elliott Negin: A Philosophical Split at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Elliott Negin 2012

This program could, as well, easily be extended to Federal pools (such on military bases), assistance to non-profit pools (notably private educational institutions), and assistance to backfitting solar heating to commercial pools (such as water parks).

A. Siegel: Clean Energy Jobs Should Go Swimming 2009

Unit 1 at the Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear facility was relicensed for operation in October 1995, following extensive maintenance that included the removal of some fuel channels to evaluate the metal and some backfitting as follows.

Light water graphite reactor (RBMK) 2009

My impression of the GCMs, in contrast, is that they have been enormously unsuccessful at predicting anything to do with climate prospectively and only retroactively with lots of backfitting and fudging.

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No backfitting is intended or approved in connection with the issuance of this guide...

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