Three managers at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are receiving promotions effective Dec. 23.
Daniel Dorman will succeed the retiring Michael Johnson as deputy executive director for reactor and preparedness programs. K. Steven West will assume a job Dorman currently holds on an acting basis: deputy executive director for materials, waste, research, state, tribal, compliance, administration and human capital. Finally, Darrell Roberts will take over for West as administrator for the NRC’s Region III, which covers Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota. Ohio, and Wisconsin.
“I want to thank Mike Johnson for his many years of dedicated service to NRC and the nation,” Margaret Doane, NRC executive director for operations, said in an Oct. 25 press release. “We are very fortunate to have strong talented individuals like Dan and Steve to assume their roles as deputy executive directors.”
Dorman served as a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer prior to joining the NRC in 1991 and the senior executive service a decade later. His roles at the agency have included project engineer for the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, head of the Quality Assurance and Safety Assessment Section for the office’s Division of Inspection Program Management, and positions in several offices before becoming administrator for NRC Region I.
West started at the NRC in 1985 as a fire protection engineer for the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and has taken on positions of increasing responsibility, including senior executive service roles in Region III and IV, the Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, the Office of Research, and the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response.
Roberts came to the NRC in 1989 as a reactor engineer intern for the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. He has also served in Regions I, II, and III and did a stint at acting deputy director for the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. He has been deputy administrator for Region III since 2014 and will be replaced in that job by John Giessner.
