About the Course
Introduction
This CLE webinar will explore the back-end nuclear fuel cycle and discuss the current regulatory climate and how counsel can effectively advise clients on reducing risk and successfully contracting as providers in this industry space.
Description
The panel of experts will examine on-site storage (ISFSIs), consolidated interim storage (CISFs), deep geologic repositories, and reprocessing/recycling, with a focus on current agency regulatory and statutory enforcement. The panel will review the federal authorities impacting the industry, including the Atomic Energy Act, Nuclear Waste Policy Act, NRC, DOE, and EPA. The experts will explain what each facility type is, who regulates what, and how federal licensing, NEPA, and environmental justice (EJ) review, transportation rules, and state siting/permit regimes interact on real projects.
The program will address what has recently changed with the administration and the courts and why it matters to risk and timing. The experts will discuss party-status/Hobbs Act implications for NRC licensing challenges and DOE's consent-based siting efforts for interim storage and a future repository.
The panelists will explore handling and abating risk, including how the Price-Anderson Act impacts storage and transport, DOE indemnity vs. NRC financial-protection regimes, and the role of commercial insurance.
Finally, the experts will discuss contracting best practices: allocating construction and licensing risk, changes in law, regulatory delay, and force-majeure, milestones and termination rights, indemnity and insurance, and community-consent/EJ engagement commitments.
Listen as our panel provides an overview of the back-end nuclear fuel cycle and the current regulatory climate, as well as best practices to enhance client ability to structure deals, manage licensing and environmental review, align transport logistics, and mitigate liability and litigation risk.
Presented By
Mr. Silberg is one of the nuclear power industry’s “go-to” lawyers, responsible for licensing many U.S. nuclear plants and litigating precedent-setting cases. Selected as a Law360 2019 Energy MVP, he advises on all aspects of nuclear law, including licensing, trial and appellate litigation, M&A and contracting, policy development and compliance. Mr. Silberg represents electric utilities and utility groups, governmental entities, nuclear energy and consulting firms, and other industry players, regularly advocating for clients before the NRC, DOE, state regulatory commissions, U.S. Congress, and federal, state and appellate courts. He advises on matters that range from plant design, construction and operational issues, to decommissioning and spent nuclear fuel storage and disposal.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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Date + Time
- event
Thursday, November 20, 2025
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
I. Introduction and definitions
II. Federal regulation overview
III. State impacts and preemption challenges
IV. Administrative and judicial changes
V. Risk and indemnity
VI. Contracting best practices
VIII. Practitioner takeaways
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Understanding ISFSI, CISF, repository, and reprocessing and the regulatory framework
- How regulatory processes affect schedule, risk, and finance
- Managing and reducing liability
- Contract drafting best practices for the industry
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