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Reactor Inspection and Performance Assessment

The program oversees the nation's 104 commercial nuclear power plants. It provides the means for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to gather information on power plant performance and oversee their safe and secure operation.

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.
  • Its purpose is clear, well designed, and results-oriented. The program has achieved its long term strategic goal to prevent radiation related deaths and illnesses, promote the common defense and security, and protect the environment in the use of civilian nuclear reactors.
  • The program does not link its budget requests to its success in accomplishing annual and agency long term goals. In reviewing the budget, the program tracks many measures but there is not a clear connection of how funding impacts goal achievement.
  • It is not transparent in how it allocates resources and or how the program contributes to achievement of the agency's long-term goals. The program does not clearly explain how it uses its prioritization process to allocate resources and how those decisions lead to results.

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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