NRC Staff Begin Returning to Jobsites

摘要

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continuing to weigh licensees’ requests for temporary exemptions from regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic while its staff begins to return to their offices after months of telework. Ninety-eight percent of the regulator’s nearly 3,000 full-time employees began teleworking in the middle of March, a measure intended to help curb the spread of the viral disease. Their work has largely proceeded remotely and unabated since then, including continued oversight of nuclear power plants and spent-fuel storage installations.