# Environmental Impacts of Severe Reactor and Spent Fuel Pool Accidents
> **Nuclear Regulatory Commission** · Petition for rulemaking; denial. · Published 2015-08-12 · 80 FR 48235
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-19843
- **Category:** nuclear-waste
- **Sub-agency:** Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 48235
- **CFR reference:** 10 CFR 51
- **Publication date:** 2015-08-12
- **Energy docket:** Docket Nos. PRM-51-14, et al.
## Abstract

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is denying 15 petitions for rulemaking submitted by the petitioners identified in the table in Section IV, "Availability of Documents." The petitioners requested that the NRC rescind its regulations that "reach generic conclusions about the environmental impacts of severe reactor and/or spent fuel pool accidents and therefore prohibit considerations of those impacts in reactor licensing proceedings."

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/08/12/2015-19843/environmental-impacts-of-severe-reactor-and-spent-fuel-pool-accidents)
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