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Top Management Challenges

NRC MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES

Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in FY 2023* (as identified by the Inspector General)

  • Challenge 1:  Ensuring safety while transforming into a modern, risk-informed regulator.
  • Challenge 2:  Overseeing the decommissioning process and the management of decommissioning trust funds.
  • Challenge 3:  Strengthening the NRC's readiness to respond to future mission-affecting disruptions.
  • Challenge 4:  Advancing readiness to license and regulate new technologies in reactor design, fuels, and plant controls, and maintaining the integrity of the associated intellectual property.
  • Challenge 5:  Ensuring the effective acquisition, management, and protection of information technology and data.
  • Challenge 6:  Implementing strategic workforce planning during transformation and industry change.
  • Challenge 7:  Overseeing materials, waste, and the National Materials Program.
  • Challenge 8:  Managing financial and acquisitions operations to enhance transparency and fiscal prudence.
  • Challenge 9:  Reinforcing the NRC's readiness to address cyber and physical security threats to critical national infrastructure sectors impacting the NRC’s public health and safety mission and/or NRC licensees.
  • Challenge 10:  Maintaining public outreach to continue strengthening the agency's regulatory process.

* For more information on these challenges, see The Inspector General's Assessment of the Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Fiscal Year 2023.

DNFSB MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES

Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board in FY 2023* (as identified by the Inspector General)

  • Challenge 1:  Leading a healthy and sustainable organizational culture and climate.
  • Challenge 2:  Ensuring the effective acquisition and management of mission-specific infrastructure, including cyber, physical and personnel security, and data.
  • Challenge 3:  Continuing a systematic safety focus in the DNFSB’s technical safety oversight and reviews.
  • Challenge 4:  Strengthening the DNFSB’s readiness to respond to future mission-affecting disruptions.
  • Challenge 5:  Managing the DNFSB’s efforts to elevate its visibility, credibility, and influence, and to assess and improve its relationship with the DOE and external stakeholders.

* For more information on the challenges, see The Inspector General's Assessment of the Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board in Fiscal Year 2023.