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NRC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does NRC mean?
• NRC (noun)
The noun NRC has 1 sense:
1. an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants
Familiarity information: NRC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
NRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Hypernyms ("NRC" 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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