The Nuclear Regulatory Commission promoted Daniel Dorman to director of operations, the agency announced this week in a press release.
Dorman is assuming his new post as NRC’s highest-ranking career official effective Oct. 10, the Tuesday press release said. The former deputy executive director of the commission’s reactor and preparedness programs is stepping up to replace Margaret Doane, who is leaving NRC Friday for a position at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
According to the press release, Dorman has held a number of senior executive positions at NRC since 2001, including as director of security operations in the agency’s nuclear security and incident response office and as deputy director of the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. He joined NRC in 1991 as a project engineer in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, the release said.
Dorman, a former Navy submarine officer, has a bachelor’s degree in naval architecture and marine engineering from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, NRC said.
Darrell Roberts, currently deputy executive director for the commission’s materials, waste, research, state, tribal, compliance, administration and human capital programs, will take over at Dorman’s previous post, the release said.
NRC is the federal regulator for civilian nuclear power plants and waste.
