Employee Meeting - NRC

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when you fall from power.
(Laughter and applause.)
COMMISSIONER MAGWOOD: It's okay to fall from
power; just don't fall from grace.
(Laughter.)
Well, first, good morning to all of you. It's great to be
here again. I think this is the third of these I've been to, but I'm looking
at Patty. Is it three or four? Whatever. I lose count.
Over the years I've been here, I keep waiting for a
normal year. This wasn't it.
(Laughter.)
But what I think I have concluded, and perhaps those
of you who have been here much longer than I have, there really is no
such thing as a normal year. Every year has surprises. Every year
has twists and turns. Every year has its own story. And this year has
certainly had some interesting developments.
If you can say one thing about work at the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, you can certainly say that it's never boring.
And that's a good thing because I think, for those of us who care very
deeply for the subjects and for the issues that we work on, the fact that
we have challenges, the fact that we are challenged to think about what
we do and how we do it on a regular basis, I think that's a good thing. I
think if we ever became too complacent and too comfortable, we might
see problems develop, as we have seen in some of our overseas
colleagues' organizations. So, I don't think that's necessarily a bad
thing.