Featured Topics
NRC Earns A+ from the SBA
Chief Acquisition Officer James Corbett and Small Business Administrator Isabel Guzman take part in an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s Diplomatic Reception Room to honor agencies, such as the NRC, which earned an A+ for fiscal year 2023 for efforts to contract with small businesses.
Chair Christopher Hanson Visits X-energy’s Support Center
NRC Chair Christopher Hanson is briefed by Human Factors Engineer Carolyn Newton at X-energy’s recently completed support center for its Xe-100 pebble-bed, high temperature gas-cooled reactor. The full-scale control room simulator and virtual reality technologies will train the next generation of nuclear operators and technicians.
NRC Resident Inspector Program 50th Anniversary
Eric Miller, senior resident inspector at FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, is featured as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the NRC’s Resident Inspector program.
NRC Staff Volunteer at Maryland’s Montgomery County Science Fair
NRC staff members, left to right, Joanne Savoy, Tonya Russell, Peter Habighorst, Tam Tran, Kristean Marchant, and Luis Betancourt volunteer as judges at Maryland’s Montgomery County Science Fair.
NRC Celebrates Bring Your Child to Work Day
NRC staff members and their children celebrate Bring Your Child to Work Day with activities including a tour of the NRC Operations Center, a scavenger hunt, storytelling time, a chemistry experiment, art opportunities and physical fitness activities.
NRC Commissioners David Wright and Bradley Crowell Tour Commonwealth Fusion Systems
NRC Commissioner David Wright, center right, and Commissioner Bradley Crowell, center left foreground, take a moment during a tour of Commonwealth Fusion Systems to pose with NRC staff and officials and CFS CEO Bob Mumgaard, center, and CFS staff. The company is currently developing a system using powerful magnetic fields to control the extremely hot plasma that sustains a fusion reaction. Photo courtesy of CFS