NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

NRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Nuclear Regulatory Commission" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)

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