NRC News Releases
planned Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Independent agency
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What this source is
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses and oversees civilian nuclear reactors and materials. Its news index carries releases on licensing actions, inspections, and enforcement, typically a few items per week.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
nrc-news- Agency / parent organization
- Independent agency
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- planned
- Tier
- 2
- URL (home)
- https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/ (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered — HTML index diffing required. Probed 2026-07-31 (from the operator machine, outside the server's daily budget): reachable, HTTP 200, robots allows, but no machine-readable feed is advertised — ingestion waits on an html-index adapter, not on the publisher. Phase 5, 2026-07-31: the html-index adapter now exists and was run against this source's captured index bytes. This index is not a release listing at all: it is a menu of year archives, and the only date on the page is 'Page Last Reviewed/Updated Tuesday, January 06, 2026' in the footer. The adapter returns nothing, which is correct — stamping the footer date onto 164 links would have been the worst available answer. Reaching NRC releases means following the per-year pages, a second request tier this adapter does not do. Activation awaits the operator's polling-cadence decision (the agency class holds 500 requests a day).
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending content evaluation)
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.
All time
No requests to www.nrc.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.