NRC To Initiate Downsizing To 3,600 Employees

NRC To Initiate Downsizing To 3,600 Employees

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday that it had approved the first step of "Project Aim," a plan to downsize the agency to “meet the demands of an evolving work load, while maintaining its ability to project public health and safety.”

In so many words, the stalled demand for nuclear power plants and the expected increase in plants moving towards decommissioning allows for a smaller regulatory agency to oversee the country’s nuclear power plants.

“In a Staff Requirements Memorandum issued today, the Commission accepted many of the recommendations presented by the staff’s Project Aim 2020 report,” the NRC said in a statement. “The Project Aim report recommended 17 strategies related to planning, processes and the workforce to ‘re-baseline’ the agency and prepare it for the future,” the NRC sad. Read http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2015/06/09/nrc-to-initiate-downsizing-to-3_2c00_600-employees-060902.aspx#.VXh7wqaKI-9