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Top Management Challenges

NRC MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES

Here are the nine most serious management and performance challenges facing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in FY 2024* as identified by the Inspector General:

  • Challenge 1:  Ensuring safety and security through risk-informed regulation of established and new nuclear technologies, as well as cyber and physical security activities impacting the NRC’s mission;
  • Challenge 2:  Overseeing the decommissioning process and the management of decommissioning trust funds;
  • Challenge 3:  Implementing new legislative requirements related to NRC core mission areas and corporate support;
  • Challenge 4:  Ensuring the effective acquisition, management, and protection of information technology and data;
  • Challenge 5:  Hiring and retaining sufficient highly skilled employees to carry out the NRC mission;
  • Challenge 6:  Overseeing the safe and secure use of nuclear materials and storage and disposal of high- and low-level waste;
  • Challenge 7:  Managing financial and acquisitions operations to enhance fiscal prudence and transparency of resource management;
  • Challenge 8:  Maintaining public outreach related to the agency’s regulatory process; and,
  • Challenge 9:  Planning for and assessing the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on nuclear safety and security.

* 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 2024.

DNFSB MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES

Here are the five most serious management and performance challenges facing the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board in FY 2024* 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:  Recruiting, retaining, and developing executive and technical staff; and,
  • Challenge 5:  Elevating the DNFSB’s public visibility and credibility and maintaining constructive relationships 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 2024.