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Area of focus

Nuclear Reactors

We advise nuclear reactor operators, owners, and vendors on a broad spectrum of U.S. and international requirements applicable to licensing, compliance, and oversight of nuclear reactors.

Representative experience

Assisted a leading nuclear utility in successfully restructuring ownership of nuclear units in bankruptcy, which involved complex NRC license transfers and decommissioning funding and state support matters.

Assisted a leading nuclear owner/operator in NRC license transfer proceedings for the purchase of a Northeast nuclear power plant under a zero-emissions credit program.

Represent nuclear owners/operators and parent companies in novel and complex ownership restructurings and related NRC license transfer matters.

Advised a leading nuclear reactor developer in relation to their bid to construct and operate the first nuclear power plant in Jordan on an engineering, procurement, and construction basis.

Represented a reactor supplier in a successful hearing before an NRC licensing board to overturn an NRC staff decision on financial and foreign ownership issues for a new nuclear power plant project.

Represented Entergy before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in defending NRC exemptions for a Northeast power plant.

Submitted an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of nuclear operators supporting an appeal of a decision on Price-Anderson Act nuclear liability protections.

Assisted a nuclear reactor operator in successfully and amicably resolving a long-standing series of investigations related to safety culture allegations.

Routinely assist reactor operators on a host of enforcement and investigation matters, including on radioactive waste transportation matters.

Assist nuclear reactor operators and suppliers and transporters on cross-border nuclear liability issues related to the transport of nuclear waste and nuclear fuel.

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