NRC and FERC hold a joint meeting on nuclear generation and grid reliability
From the Energy digest for 2026-10-23
What happened: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission hosted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a joint meeting on nuclear generation and grid reliability (ANS, Oct 23, ~4:09 PM ET). The agencies' first joint meeting came 20 years ago, spurred by the 2003 Northeast blackout, during which nine U.S. nuclear reactors tripped offline.
What's genuinely new: the two agencies convene jointly again — a regulator-level forum on nuclear generation and grid reliability, twenty years after the blackout-era precedent set that pattern.
Watch: what comes out of the joint forum — any follow-up actions from either agency on nuclear generation and grid reliability.
Links: ANS