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National Nuclear Security Administration: Nuclear Weapons Incident Response Program

The Nuclear Weapons Incident Response (NWIR) program responds to and mitigates nuclear and radiological incidents worldwide, minimizing the impact of emergencies on workers, the public, and environment.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program has improved its ability to respond to nuclear or radiological incidents worldwide and made progress throughout the year in the areas of personnel, training, equipment, review of security plans, and equipment deliveries.
  • The program has an excellent track record in responding to emergencies and events with National Security implications. In 2009, the program continues to respond to all requests for assistance.
  • The program has made progress in holding its Contractors accountable for achieving cost savings. One result of this effort is that the program has realized cost savings through better use of existing contractors to train more First Responders through it's Road Rapter program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Investigating the source of impediments to the program's ability to respond to and mitigate nuclear and radiological incidents worldwide.
  • Improving coordination of priorities across all field offices.
  • Assessing emergency response capabilities to help program managers identify and fix deficiencies.

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