The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) appointed two of its long-time staffers this week to serve in high-level management positions.
NRC appointed Sabrina Atack as deputy executive director for reactor and preparedness programs and Caroline Carusone as deputy executive director for nuclear materials, administrative and corporate programs.
Both hirings are effective immediately according to NRC’s Tuesday press release.
Both Atack and Carusone have worked in management roles previously.
From July 2025 until now, Atack served as the acting deputy director for operations. Atack started her career in 2006 as a reactor systems engineer in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
Prior to Carusone’s recent appointment, she was deputy director and deputy chief information officer in the Office of Chief Information Officer. Carusone started her career with NRC in 2007 as a program analyst in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
Before joining NRC, Atack worked for the Department of Defense at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. In Carusone’s pre-NRC days, she worked as a liaison officer with the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command during the post 9/11 establishment of the Rapid Equipping Force, according to the release.