The Invisible Man(agers) Keynote Address at 15th INMM Meeting

Editor's Note: This article written by Westinghouse was the keynote address at the 15th annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Inc., held lune 19-21, 1974, at the Riviera Hyatt House, Atlanta, Georgia. Gene Miles of It was probably not too difficult to determine from the title of my speech that I would be talking about you, me and the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management. are the invisible men and the invisible managers of the nuclear industry. If this were not true, there would be a lot Yes, we in INMM less diversions of nuclear material, hijackings and homemade atomic bombs. If this were not true, there would be a lot more written and said about the security systems and nuclear material management techniques that prevent diversions, hijackings and other security threats. There would be more publicity which would tell the general public what the nuclear industry and the AEC are planning to do to improve nuclear protection in the near future. Yes, if it were not true that we are invisible managers, there would be more people within the nuclear industry itself who would know about INMM—what we are and what we do. Up to now I think we can all agree that as a group we have kept a too-low profile. And by doing this, we have failed to obtain proper recognition for our efforts, our talents and, yes, even our problems. We have failed to gain the attention and the support—not only of the general public—but we have often failed to get our message through to nuclear industry management, the AEC, and some of our allied organizations like Atomic Industrial Forum (AIF) and American Nuclear Society (ANS). unfavorable written and spoken comments aboutdo exist right now to