Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Description: The video recording of RIC 2025 Technical Session: T8 - The Next Generation Workforce - Charting the Course for Another 50 Years. The timely, efficient and effective execution of NRC regulatory activities requires a highly capable and resilient workforce. Ensuring that the NRC attracts, develops, and retains a next generation nuclear workforce with strong technical and regulatory capabilities will enable the safe and efficient deployment of novel nuclear technology applications and the associated benefits for society. The ever-changing career landscape has shifted toward increasing workplace flexibilities, greater deployment of information technology, and a need for a sustained work-life balance to ensure talent is retained at all organizational levels. Because these challenges and opportunities were not unique to the NRC, the session also included multiple stakeholder perspectives to highlight how different areas of the nuclear sector were addressing these issues. The session featured a diverse range of speakers, representing the NRC staff, research universities, and the nuclear industry. It focused on the evolving context for staffing strategies, described how active university engagement strategies supported the safe deployment of nuclear technology, the implementation of development programs to quickly bring newly hired staff up to full performance level, and how knowledge management was leveraged to incorporate historical lessons learned into modern regulatory and operational processes.
SPEAKER(S):
Bo Pham, Acting Deputy Director, RES/NRC
Opening Remarks
Matthew Emrich, Chief, Reactor Technical Training Branch, Associate Director for Human Resources Learning and Development, OCHCO/NRC
Cultivating the Next-Generation Regulator
Rizwan Uddin, Department Head and Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, The Grainger College of Engineering Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering
Next Generation Nuclear Workforce Development in the Most Nuclear State: Illinois
Lisa Marshall, President/Assistant Extension Professor, American Nuclear Society/NC State University Department of Nuclear Engineering
John Nakoski, Deputy Head, Division of Nuclear Safety Technology and Regulation, Nuclear Energy Agency
International Insights on Competency Management Strategies
SESSION COORDINATOR(S):
Adam Lee, Fire Protection Engineer, Fire and External Hazards Analysis Branch, Division of Risk Analysis, RES/NRC e-mail: Adam.Lee@nrc,gov
Kenneth Hamburger, Fire Protection Engineer, Fire and External Hazards Analysis Branch, Division of Risk Analysis, RES/NRC e-mail: Kenneth.Hamburger@nrc.gov
Description: The video recording of RIC 2025 Technical Session: T8 - The Next Generation Workforce - Charting the Course for Another 50 Years. The timely, efficient and effective execution of NRC regulatory activities requires a highly capable and resilient workforce. Ensuring that the NRC attracts, develops, and retains a next generation nuclear workforce with strong technical and regulatory capabilities will enable the safe and efficient deployment of novel nuclear technology applications and the associated benefits for society. The ever-changing career landscape has shifted toward increasing workplace flexibilities, greater deployment of information technology, and a need for a sustained work-life balance to ensure talent is retained at all organizational levels. Because these challenges and opportunities were not unique to the NRC, the session also included multiple stakeholder perspectives to highlight how different areas of the nuclear sector were addressing these issues. The session featured a diverse range of speakers, representing the NRC staff, research universities, and the nuclear industry. It focused on the evolving context for staffing strategies, described how active university engagement strategies supported the safe deployment of nuclear technology, the implementation of development programs to quickly bring newly hired staff up to full performance level, and how knowledge management was leveraged to incorporate historical lessons learned into modern regulatory and operational processes.
SPEAKER(S):
Bo Pham, Acting Deputy Director, RES/NRC
Opening Remarks
Matthew Emrich, Chief, Reactor Technical Training Branch, Associate Director for Human Resources Learning and Development, OCHCO/NRC
Cultivating the Next-Generation Regulator
Rizwan Uddin, Department Head and Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, The Grainger College of Engineering Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering
Next Generation Nuclear Workforce Development in the Most Nuclear State: Illinois
Lisa Marshall, President/Assistant Extension Professor, American Nuclear Society/NC State University Department of Nuclear Engineering
John Nakoski, Deputy Head, Division of Nuclear Safety Technology and Regulation, Nuclear Energy Agency
International Insights on Competency Management Strategies
SESSION COORDINATOR(S):
Adam Lee, Fire Protection Engineer, Fire and External Hazards Analysis Branch, Division of Risk Analysis, RES/NRC e-mail: Adam.Lee@nrc,gov
Kenneth Hamburger, Fire Protection Engineer, Fire and External Hazards Analysis Branch, Division of Risk Analysis, RES/NRC e-mail: Kenneth.Hamburger@nrc.gov
