# 2026-16309: NRC Okays St. Lucie Nuke Tweaks, Locks Down Secret Docs

2026-16309, Application for Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination and Containing Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information, is a Federal Register notice from Nuclear Regulatory Commission published 2026-08-11, effective 2026-08-11; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-18).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-16309
- As of: 2026-08-18
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2026-16309
- Title: Application for Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination and Containing Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 91 FR 51751
- Published: 2026-08-11
- Effective: 2026-08-11
- Comments close: 2026-09-10
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-08-18

## In one line

NRC Okays St. Lucie Nuke Tweaks, Locks Down Secret Docs

## Summary

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) received, and is considering approval of, one request to amend two licenses. The license amendment request is for St. Lucie Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2. For the license amendment request, the NRC proposes to determine that it involves no significant hazards consideration (NSHC). Because the amendment request contains sensitive unclassified non- safeguards information (SUNSI), the NRC is issuing an order imposing procedures to obtain access to SUNSI for contention preparation by persons who file a hearing request or petition for leave to intervene.

## Effects PRIA read

- St. Lucie License Amendment Reviewed: mixed, low. The NRC is considering a license amendment for St. Lucie Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 (application dated April 13, 2026) that would exclude dynamic effects of postulated pipe ruptures in certain Class 1 auxiliary systems and expand the leak-before-break method to pressurizer surge, shutdown cooling, an…
- Rules to Get Sensitive SUNSI Documents: benefit, low. If you want to intervene in this proceeding and need access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information (SUNSI), you must request access within 10 days after the Federal Register notice (deadline August 21, 2026). Requests must include a description of the licensing action, your name and a…

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## Sources
- [2026-16309 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/11/2026-16309/application-for-amendments-to-facility-operating-licenses-involving-proposed-no-significant-hazards)
- [2026-16309 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-11/pdf/2026-16309.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-16309 (as of 2026-08-18).