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Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan.

Jeremy Whitlock

Dr. Jeremy Whitlock is a Senior Technical Advisor in the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, responsible for Safeguards by Design.

Dr. Whitlock has three decades' experience as a scientist and manager in the Canadian and international nuclear community. Prior to moving to the IAEA in 2017 he spent 22 years at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories as a reactor physicist and manager of non-proliferation R&D.

Dr. Whitlock received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Waterloo (1988), and an M.Eng. and PhD in Engineering Physics (reactor physics) from McMaster University (1995).

Dr. Whitlock is a Past President, Fellow, and former Communications Director of the Canadian Nuclear Society. Since 1997 he has maintained The Canadian Nuclear FAQ (www.nuclearfaq.ca), a personal website of frequently-asked questions (FAQs) on Canadian nuclear technology.

Dr. Whitlock lives in Vienna, Austria, and feels that canoes are the closest humans have come to inventing a perfect machine.

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