NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nuclear Regulatory Commission mean? 

• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (noun)
  The noun NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (noun)

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 ("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)