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12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 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.
13 1 2 3 4 But, that said, I also think that, despite the uncertainties of the present, that the future is actually quite bright. I was having a conversation with Mark just this morning, sort of mentioning the fact that, while there's a lot of uncertainty in a lot of 5 agencies, the <strong>NRC</strong> is still hiring at a pretty rapid rate. We're still 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 bringing over 300 people onboard this year, and those are people that we need to populate this great Agency, to make sure that we maintain the strong expertise and staff experience that we have had for these many years. You know, I actually had a question in mind yesterday. I remembered a Resident Inspector that I thought could help me answer it. So, I went into my BlackBerry. And I couldn't remember the name. So, I just put in the word "inspect," thinking I'd get a list of Inspectors and I'd be able to figure out who it was from there. And it was just one of those weird things of life that one of the names that came up, because I never throw anything away -- if you know anything 17 about me, I'm a pack rat. The name of an Associate Director for 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Inspection from NRR came up, some guy named Bill Borchardt. (Laughter.) And I don't know where in the world I ran into you when you were Associate Director for Inspection with NRR, but I'm sure it was a very valuable conversation, Bill. (Laughter.) So, obviously, Bill's exit is one that will be marked in 25 January. He contributed a great deal to the Agency through very 26 difficult times, and he is going to be remembered for that, I think, by
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