A review of the NRC's reactor oversight process: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 19, 2006.

The Reactor Oversight Process (ROP), which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) instituted to evaluate the safety and security performance of the nation's 104 nuclear power reactors, recently passed the ten year mark. This issue brief documents UCS's review of the ROP's first decade. The NRC appointed UCS to a panel formed in 1999 under the federal advisory committee act and tasked with evaluating the ROP's pilot program. UCS has testified several times before Congress about the ROP's pros and cons. Over the past decade, UCS has continued to monitor the ROP.