Press Release-17-050, NRC Executive Receives Presidential Rank Award

Press Release-17-050: NRC Executive Receives Presidential Rank Award

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Issue date:	12/13/2017
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No: 17-050 December 13, 2017 CONTACT: Holly Harrington, 301-415-8200 NRC Executive Receives Presidential Rank Award Scott W. Moore, deputy director of the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has been selected as a 2017 Presidential Rank Award recipient. The award is one of the highest given to government employees. It recognizes and celebrates sustained extraordinary accomplishments of career public servants.

This is an extraordinary achievement and we are proud that Scott Moores dedication to this agencys mission and his talent in helping us achieve that mission are being recognized with this prestigious award, said Executive Director for Operations Victor McCree.

Moore joined the NRC in 1988 as a health physicist and has spent almost 30 years in a series of increasingly responsible positions. Among other assignments, he worked as a technical expert on radiological materials for former Chairman Shirley Jackson. He also worked in a variety of positions supporting the safe and secure domestic uses of radioactive material, and at an international level as deputy director of the Office of International Programs. He became a member of the Senior Executive Service in 2004.

In his current position, he leads nearly 300 technical and corporate staff in activities related to the licensing and regulatory oversight of industrial, academic, and medical uses of radioactive sources; nuclear fuel fabrication and processing; spent fuel storage; low-level waste storage and disposal facilities; and decommissioning reactor and materials sites.