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NRC Chair Christopher Hanson and Commissioners David Wright, Annie Caputo and Bradley Crowell appear before the House Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security to discuss the agency’s budget request and to answer questions ranging from new reactor application reviews to integrating artificial intelligence into the NRC’s processes.

NRC Commissioner David Wright (speaking) participates in the White House Africa Cancer Care Forum where he spoke about his experiences as a colon cancer survivor and how the agency supports African countries in regulating the medical uses of radiological material in cancer care. The forum was hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and included other government officials, international experts and representatives from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Experts from the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation’s Division of Engineering and External Hazards brief members of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards on activities related to nuclear power plant digital instrumentation and control.
 

NRC Chair Christopher Hanson, center right, poses with, right to left, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, NRC Acting Executive Director for Operations Ray Furstenau, NRC Commissioner Annie Caputo, and NRC and FEMA senior staff after the signing of a revised memorandum of understanding establishing a framework for the agencies to cooperate on emergency preparedness for commercial nuclear power plants.

NRC Chair Christopher Hanson, left, takes questions from the audience with moderator Dan Leone, from the Exchange Monitor, during the UCAN Power’s Nuclear Energy Security Summit.

Jonathan Montgomery, a reactor inspector in NRC Region II in Atlanta, gives a presentation about the history and meaning of Juneteenth to his colleagues as part of the agency’s commemoration of the federal holiday, which celebrates the day the last African American enslaved people, in Texas, got word they were freed from bondage after the Civil War.