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NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko (near right) moderates a session in Madrid at an international workshop on crisis communications organized by the Nuclear Energy Agency. The two-day event drew approximately 180 experts, observers and reporters to discuss crisis communications in the wake of the Fukushima accident. The panelists (L-R) are from Spain, India, Ireland and Japan. Click on Crisis Communication: Facing the Challenges for webcast.
NRC staff members provide the Commission (left) with an update on human capital activities and equal employment opportunities at the agency. (Seated on the right of table from top to bottom) Glenn Tracy, deputy director, Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer (OCHCO); Miriam Cohen, director, OCHCO; Executive Director for Operations Bill Borchardt; Vonna Ordaz, director, Office of Small Business and Civil Rights; Andrea Valentin, Associate Director for Operations and Policy, OCHCO, and Jody Hudson, Associate Director for Training, OCHCO.
Randy Ragland (on left), a Senior Health Physicist in the NRC Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, uses survey instruments to locate a previously missing gauge containing Cesium-137 at a coal processing facility in West Virginia.
The NRC celebrates "Bring Your Children to Work Day" with a half day of events that included NRC Meteorologist Kevin Quinlan (right) teaching how weather conditions can influence the design and location of new nuclear power plants. Visit the NRC blog to learn more about the role of a meteorologist at the NRC.

