Policy Papers · September 2026
RTS argues that 10 CFR Part 53 and agentic AI have reached a mutually enabling moment: Part 53 supplies a technology-inclusive, risk-informed, performance-based structure, and agentic AI can make its decomposition and traceability work practical on a real project schedule. The paper was developed with N. Prasad Kadambi, author of NUREG/BR-0303.
What’s inside
- Why §53.230(a), limiting radioactive release, anchors a traceable objectives hierarchy
- How the hierarchy runs from safety functions to systems, components, and evidence
- Where agentic AI can carry decomposition and traceability at project speed
- The Human in Command® model: people own the safety judgment, every generated element stays traceable
- Why RTS recommends a topical report pathway before the first applicant needs one
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Related: NRC AI Workshop #7 recap, where RTS presented this research
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