10 March 2021
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Becoming a more modern, risk-informed regulator remains a key goal of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), its chairman Christopher Hanson said during his opening address to the regulator s 33rd
Regulatory Information Conference. Hanson, who was sworn in as a commissioner in June 2020, was designated chairman of the NRC by President Joe Biden in January this year.
Hanson addresses the RIC
According to his NRC biography, Hanson s more than two decades of government and private-sector experience in nuclear energy fields include service as a staff member on the Senate Appropriations Committee, overseeing civilian and national security nuclear programmes; as a senior advisor in the Department of Energy s Office of Nuclear Energy; and also oversight of nuclear and environmental cleanup programmes in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer.