Raymond Furstenau will temporarily become the Nuclear Regulatory Commission executive director on Jan. 27, when Daniel Dorman, the current director is set to retire, the commission announced Wednesday.
Furstenau, who leads the NRC’s Office of Research, will act as the commission’s chief operating officer, managing personnel and delegating technical and regulatory work on NRC-licensed facilities to the agency’s staff experts.
Furstenau joined the NRC in 2018 after a long career with the Department of Energy, according to an NRC press release. He will serve only until the NRC hires a permanent executive director, according to the presser.
Dorman spent a little more than two years as the executive director before calling it a career.
An NRC spokesperson on Thursday declined to comment about when the job search for a full-time executive director would begin. The NRC commissioner nominates an executive director who must then be approved by the rest of the commissioners.
