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Nuclear Materials Users Licensing & Inspection

This program regulates non-defense related use of nuclear materials in medical, academic, and industrial applications; issues licenses to receive title to, own, acquire, deliver, receive, possess, use, and transfer nuclear materials; and conducts inspections to verify licensee performance in accordance with regulations.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program is achieving its long-term strategic goal. It works to prevent radiation-related deaths and illnesses, promote the common defense and security, and protect the environment in the use of source, byproduct, and special nuclear material.
  • The program has consistently achieved its annual targets. For example, in 2005 the program helped ensure that there were no radiological releases to the environment that exceeded applicable regulatory limits and no unrecovered losses or thefts of risk-significant radioactive sources.
  • The program agrees to the need for regularly scheduled independent evaluations, and also believes it to be a generic issue not specific to nuclear materials PART review. NRC OCFO sent a staff paper to the Commission with recommendations across the Agency for future independent evaluations. NRC staff is awaiting the Commission's decision.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Demonstrating how the program's activities and resources help achieve outcomes and outputs. Improving the efficiency of operating plans, through an agency-wide working group.
  • Securing a regularly scheduled independent assessment, including evaluation of annual and long term performance measures, and efficiency and effectiveness of strategic planning and program management.

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