Safeguarding U.S. Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Materials

摘要

About 10 years ago, as the Special Agent in Charge at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General, I hosted a gathering of the Inspector General Council at my office in Chicago. At the start of the meeting, all of the agency representatives, mostly special agents in charge, introduced themselves. The usual agencies were represented: the HHS, the Housing and Urban Development Department, the Agriculture Department, the Education Department, the Transportation Department, the Homeland Security Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and several others. One of the agency representatives introduced himself as the field office director (FOD) for Region III of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Office of Investigations, I had to admit that I was not aware that NRC even had a law enforcement division aside from its Office of Inspector General.