NRC materials licensing business process reengineering
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued 6550 active licenses that authorize possession and use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear material. In October 1994, the NRC staff began to examine the process used to issue these licenses to identify ways to improve the process. In addition to examining the current process, the staff was directed to develop a new process design that would accomplish the following goals: (1) Maintain or raise the level of public safety achieved by the current process, (2) Perform licensing reviews and associated tasks an order of magnitude faster than the current process, (3) Exploit modern information technology as a fundamental part of the new process, and (4) Reduce the resources needed to carry out the licensing program to meet the projected 1997-1999 staffing levels. The method used for this examination is called Business Process Reengineering (BPR). BPR is the process of fundamentally changing the way work is performed so as to achieve radical performance improvements in speed, cost, and quality. Features of the new licensing process, scheduled to begin in 1996, are outlined in this paper.
- OSTI ID:
- 269752
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9505336-; TRN: 96:016849
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 27. annual national conference on radiation control, San Antonio, TX (United States), 7-10 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of 27th Annual national conference on radiation control; PB: 364 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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