The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s chief executive manager is retiring from the agency after nearly 40 years of service, the commission said in a press release last week.
Annette Vietti-Cook, who became NRC’s secretary in 1982, is retiring from her role effective this spring, according to a press release dated Jan. 11. Brooke Clark, NRC’s deputy counsel for licensing, hearings and enforcement, is replacing Vietti-Cook, the statement said.
In her new position, Clark will serve “a critical role” in managing agency operations, including “scheduling commission meetings, managing the commission’s decision-making process, codifying commission decisions in memoranda, processing and controlling commission correspondence, and maintaining the commission’s historical records collection,” NRC’s press release said.
Clark joined NRC’s special counsel office in 2004 and has held a number of positions at the agency including in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards and the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer. Clark has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley and her law degree from the George Washington University Law School.
In a Tweet Friday, NRC recognized the outgoing Vietti-Cook, noting that her office has handled around 7,500 “high-profile actions” in the past year.
