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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.

Joseph Donoghue

Joseph E. Donoghue serves as Director, Division Safety Systems, Office Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR).

Joe joined the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 1991 as a Reactor System Engineer in NRR. He served in a number of progressively responsible positions within the operating reactor and new reactor programs, including Technical Reviewer, Senior Project Manager, Branch Chief, and Deputy Division Director (most recently in the Division of Materials and License Renewal, NRR).

Before joining the NRC, Mr. Donoghue served for over six years in the U.S. Navy.

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