After the COVID-19 Omicron variant spread rapidly across the country this winter, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided to host an annual spring conference virtually this year, the agency announced Tuesday.
Although NRC’s Regulatory Information Conference (RIC), scheduled for March 8-10, was initially supposed to be held as a hybrid event with some in-person attendance, the commission will now host the RIC online “to protect the health of attendees during the global health pandemic,” NRC said in a statement Tuesday evening.
Interested attendees can still register for the conference via the agency’s online platform, NRC said.
The RIC, which provides NRC an opportunity to update the public on its regulatory efforts in the nuclear power space, was also held virtually last year due to virus concerns.
