nuclear regulatory commission

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   an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants

   SynonymsNRC

   Broaderindependent agency

Questions about nuclear regulatory commission

What does nuclear regulatory commission mean?

nuclear regulatory commission means "an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants".

What is another word for nuclear regulatory commission?

Close synonyms include NRC. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuclear regulatory commission a common word?

nuclear regulatory commission is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.