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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING 99 DEC 22 P12:37December 4th, 2005
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE) both conduct research associated with nuclear power technology. The NRC conducts research to provide independent expertise and information for making timely regulatory judgments, anticipating problems of potential safety significance, resolving safety issues, and developing technical regulations and standards. The DOE conducts research to develop technologies to address operational issues at nuclear power plants relating to improving plant economics, reliability, and availability. Although the goals of the NRC and DOE research programs differ in many respects, the basic data and technical information obtained through joint research can be useful to each agency in appropriate cases. Accordingly, to conserve resources and to avoid duplication, it is in the best interest of both parties to cooperate and share information and costs related to such research, whenever such cooperation and cost sharing can be done in a
