U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Funding Opportunity Announcement, Development of Voluntary Consensus Standards that Establish Safety and Risk Criteria and Methods for Probabilistic Analysis, Risk Assessment, and Risk Management Grant, Fiscal Year 2020

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency, established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, tasked with licensing and regulating the Nation’s civilian use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear material to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment. The effort under this grant will aid the development of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) standards that include but are not limited to Level 1 (e.g., Large Early Release Frequency (LERF), internal events, internal and external hazards, etc.), full accident progression and source term analysis (level 2 PRA), and consequence analysis (level 3 PRA), of operating reactors and advanced and non- light-water reactor (LWR reactors).

Government

• Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
• Special district governments
• City or township governments
• County governments
• State governments

Nonprofit

• Other Native American tribal organizations
• Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)
• Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)