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Mirela Gavrilas

Dr. Mirela Gavrilas was appointed Executive Director for Operations (EDO) in July 2024. In her previous position as Director of the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response (NSIR), Dr. Gavrilas was responsible for the development and implementation of security and emergency preparedness policy at U.S. civilian nuclear facilities. Dr. Gavrilas joined the NRC in 2004 in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research and served in positions of increasing responsibility. Since becoming a senior executive in 2014, she held management positions for research and test reactors, risk assessment and reactor systems in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR).  Dr. Gavrilas also served as the Deputy Office Director for Engineering and later for Reactor Safety Programs and Mission Support in NRR.  Among Dr. Gavrilas’s most notable contributions to the NRC mission are the Be riskSMART decision-making framework, a methodology for the probabilistic treatment of safety margins, the construction permit review for the SHINE medical isotope production facility, NRC’s original accident tolerant fuel plan, and security considerations in rulemaking for licensing advanced reactors.

Before joining the NRC, Dr. Gavrilas served on the faculty of the University of Maryland. She received a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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