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National Nuclear Infrastructure

The National Nuclear Infrastructure program manages the planning, acquisition, operation, maintenance and disposition of the nuclear infrastructure to conduct advanced nuclear energy research, meet the demand for isotopes, provide radioisotope power systems, and ensure the future of the domestic nuclear fuel supply.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program's Ten-Year Site Plan goals and objectives do not reflect realistic future budgets. An evaluation of the program will produce policy and research recommendations and priorities, including performance targets and metrics, for an integrated, realistic agenda of research that can best advance the mission of securing nuclear energy as a commercial energy option.
  • The program does not collect timely and credible performance information to guide its management decisions. This had not been the case previously. The program is developing cost, schedule, and other baselines for its new performance metrics in 2006.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Commissioned the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate and refine the program goals and objectives. The evaluation will produce policy/research recommendations and priorities.
  • The Office of Nuclear Energy is working with OMB and the DOE CFO to develop meaningful, measureable outcome-oriented measures through the FY 2008-12 OMB budget formulation cycle.

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