Breaking Barriers in the 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science

Since 1979, DOE and NSF support for Nuclear Science in the USA has been guided by a national long-range planning exercise led by the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, producing a Long Range Plan approximately every seven years. For the first time in over four decades of such planning, the major recommendations laid out in "A New Era of Discovery: the 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science" included measures to further equity and inclusion and remove barriers to full participation in Nuclear Science. The community had emphasized the need for such measures in Town Halls organized by the APS DNP, and in white papers. To further hone the recommendations, surveys of faculty and the graduate student community were performed. The input gathered, and proposals related to increasing the nuclear science workforce and reducing barriers to participation by all members of society will be presented.