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4 Factor Consulting, LLC
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Nuclear Export Controls · Regulatory Strategy · Operational Compliance

Bring us the project. We'll help clear the regulatory path.

4 Factor Consulting advises nuclear organizations on export controls and regulatory strategy — from DOE Part 810, one of our deepest areas of expertise, through the EAR and the wider landscape around a complex project.

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Trusted partners in nuclear export compliance and regulatory strategy. Guiding industry since 2009.

What we help solve

You don't need to know which regulation applies.

Tell us what you are planning — who participates, what technology and information move, and where the work happens. We identify the regulatory questions that matter — then analyze them, develop the strategy, and help you build and implement the controls.
Tell Us About Your Project
  • Part 810 strategy and implementation
  • Export-control program development
  • Authorization and reporting support
  • Foreign-national and technology-access issues
  • Regulatory discovery for complex projects
  • Training and operational controls
  • Regulator engagement
  • Remediation and compliance governance

One project, many questions

One project can create many compliance questions.

Export-control problems rarely announce themselves as export-control problems. They look like ordinary engineering, hiring, and collaboration decisions — which is why recognizing the intersections early matters.

Capabilities

Depth in Part 810, integrated capability across the landscape.

Part 810 is rarely the only regulatory question surrounding a sophisticated nuclear project. Where an issue falls outside our expertise, we bring in experienced specialists or point you to the right one.
All capabilities

  • Nuclear Export Regulation

    Specialized NRC Part 110 expertise, including former NRC experience with international nuclear export regulation.

  • Cybersecurity & Information Protection

    Technical expertise supporting secure implementation of information-access and technology-control requirements.

  • Specialized Regulatory and Counsel Coordination

    Where a matter requires expertise outside our scope, we bring in the appropriate specialist and coordinate their work alongside ours.

How we work

Understand the project. Analyze what applies. Build the path forward.

A regulation can be legally understood and still be poorly implemented. Our work closes that gap by turning requirements into business processes, controls, and evidence at the points where real decisions get made.
  1. Step 1

    Understand the project

    The objective, the people, the technology, the partners, and where the work will happen. No regulatory diagnosis required from you.

  2. Step 2

    Analyze what applies

    Applicability analysis across Part 810, the EAR, NRC Part 110, cybersecurity, and foreign-national access, with the reasoning documented and the authorization strategy that follows from it.

  3. Step 3

    Build the path forward

    Authorization submissions, compliance controls, procedures, training, records, and accountable ownership — implemented with your team, or confirmation that no further action is warranted.

Clarity

Know what applies and what people need to do.

Durability

Build controls capable of surviving change and scrutiny.

Ownership

Create internal accountability and lasting capability.

Services

From an early project conversation to a program that lasts.

Engagements grow only as far as the situation warrants.
All services
A diverse cross-functional team of engineers and compliance staff reviewing technical drawings together in a conference room

Why 4 Factor

Experienced nuclear practitioners, not generalists.

We work inside reactor programs, research environments, and international collaborations. 4 Factor is a small firm on purpose: the people who scope the work are the people who do it.
  • Serving the nuclear industry since 2009
  • Decades of commercial nuclear experience
  • National-laboratory export-compliance experience
  • Advanced-reactor and fuel-cycle work
  • Regulatory engagement experience
  • ANS standards development participation

Who we help

Experience

Representative Engagements

Our work spans advanced nuclear development, fuel-cycle projects, research institutions, and complex compliance programs.
See all engagements

  • Advanced reactor developer

    Addressed foreign national access to nuclear technology, prepared required DOE/NNSA reports, strengthened technology controls, and worked through a potential compliance disclosure. Also designed controls for employees working overseas and for international contractors.

  • Research university developing an advanced reactor

    Built the university's nuclear export control program: Part 810 authorization work, foreign national reviews, technology control planning, training, reporting, and integration with the broader research compliance system.

  • Major nuclear engineering organization

    Supporting a broad review of export controls, governance, information systems, organizational roles, and compliance responsibilities across a complex nuclear business.

Start the conversation

Working through a nuclear project with regulatory complexity? Bring us in early.

A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether there is something to work through.

Contact 4 Factor